French footballer for Spanish Real Madrid Kylian Mbappe he will miss at least three weeks due to a knee ligament injury. The newspaper L’Equipe reports it.

The attacker will miss the Spanish Super Cup, the matches of which will be played from 7 to 11 January in Saudi Arabia.

Mbappé is 27 years old. On June 3, 2024, the striker signed a contract with Real Madrid as a free agent. From 2018 to 2024 he played for PSG and is the top scorer in the club’s history. As part of the team, the footballer became a five-time champion of France, three-time winner of the National Cup and Super Cup and twice won the League Cup.

Together with the French team, Mbappe won the 2018 World Championship in Russia and won a silver medal at the 2022 World Championship in Qatar.

Alexey Meleshin appointed head coach of the youth team of the Moscow football club “Spartak”. This was reported by the red and white press service.

Earlier it became known about the resignation from the position of head coach of the team Igor Ryabov. The youth coaching staff included: Ivan Grigoriev AND Dmitry Ratnikov. Meleshin previously headed the Spartak-2 team, but was appointed head coach instead Paolo Figon.

Meleshin is 49 years old, he is a student of Spartak, during his playing career he played for the red and white from 1995 to 2000, and together with the team he became champion of Russia four times. After finishing his career, he worked in Spartak’s youth team as an assistant coach and was also the coach of the red and white academy.

International Football Federation (FIFA) together with the Dubai Sports Council have organized a new award for the best football players at the end of the year. This was reported by the press service FIFA.

The first awards ceremony will take place in 2026.

Second best footballer FIFA determined since 1991. The organization independently approved the winner of the award until 2009. From 2010 to 2015, the award was awarded together with France Football magazine and was called Ballon d’Or FIFA” Since 2016, two prizes have been awarded: second by publication and second FIFAthe International Football Federation award was called The Best. Its last owner in 2025 was a Frenchman Ousmane Dembele.