Mbappé and Konaté stop for hugs with Claude Makélélé

ESPN UK's post-match Short also catches Camavinga greeting the former midfielder, drawing more than 400,000 views.

Channel: ESPN UK Story of October 27, 2026Trari Newsroom

Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 334,238 views a day, 47 times a normal first day on this channel (7,123).

Ibrahima Konaté, Kylian Mbappé & Eduardo Camavinga with Real Madrid legend Claude Makélélé 😍✨

"Comment tu vas ?" Kylian Mbappé asks Claude Makélélé: how are you? Between the handshake and the hug, it is a simple greeting rather than a post-match interview.

ESPN UK's Short begins beside the field, where Makélélé embraces Ibrahima Konaté. The scene shifts to the stadium tunnel for Mbappé's arrival, before Eduardo Camavinga comes along, waves at the camera and greets the former midfielder.

Makélélé brings a particular history to this gathering. At Real Madrid, his defensive midfield work helped support a team packed with attacking stars. His influence on the position became so recognizable that the phrase "the Makélélé role" entered soccer's vocabulary. Here, the player associated with protecting everyone behind the ball is the one receiving the attention.

The clip's first-day audience was far beyond ESPN UK's usual start for a Short. Among the comments, some viewers return to Makélélé's playing days and his importance in midfield; another picks out the humility of the greetings.

ESPN UK has also posted a separate meeting between Bernardo Silva and Makélélé. Alongside its clips debating Barcelona's defeat and the implications for the title race, these brief encounters offer a quieter piece of the post-match story.

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The numbers

The Makélélé greetings drew an unusually large first-day audience for an ESPN UK Short. Other clips from the El Clásico aftermath also started well above the channel's usual pace.

the video's first day

usual first day here

7,123

this video

334,238

subscribers

1,610,000

no significant change in the last 7 days

total views

1,074,154,419

views per day

2,820,330

typical day: 871,321

the video

views

408,435

likes

8,680

comments

25

days online

2

subscribers: this channel and similar channels

AFTV

1,840,000

Tifo Football by The Athl…

1,820,000

The Overlap

1,800,000

ESPN UK

1,610,000

FOX Soccer

1,580,000

Overlap Daily

1,550,000

As of October 27, 2026 · Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube

Subscriber, view, like and comment counts are YouTube's. Rates, usual days, rankings, comparisons and categories are Trari's own calculations.