There are some announcements that take longer to digest than others. That of Antoine Griezmann’s international retirement is clearly part of that that football fans will not soon forget. The Atletico de Madrid player has, however, just announced, as Zidane and Platini have done in the past, that he would never play again with the rooster jersey.
The career of Grizou en Bleu is a story that began on a field of ruins. He was one of the first called to rebuild French football at half mast after the successive failures of 2010 and 2012. The French public will then be immediately charmed by the talent of this left-hander with an atypical career path. Left for exile in Spain when he was just a teenager. It is today one of the greatest players in the history of the Blues. He has been an essential element of the last decade, crowned by a world champion title in particular.
Didier Deschamps’ tribute
Didier Deschamps and Antoine Griezmann, it’s a story that has lasted since the coach’s debut in Blue. A story that began timidly after the Basque took office following a failed Euro 2012. The native of Mâcon will then become the base man of the “La Desch” system for almost a decade. He will be his key man during all his major competitions apart from this last failed Euro.
The coach therefore wanted to pay him a vibrant tribute. “It’s never easy to draw a line under the French team. Sespecially when we have represented it so well, so well embodied. It takes courage, lucidity and honesty, and Antoine, in his analysis, did not lack them. This is to his credit. Even if his club career is not over. Antoine was and will remain a monument of French footballone of the greatest players in its history.”
Behind the scenes of Antoine Griezmann’s departure
Damien Degorre, the sports journalist always very well informed when it comes to the news of the Blues, however delivered another version on the set of The Evening Teamexplaining that the player “never discussed with Didier Deschamps before making his decision”. This same Damien Degorre then took up his pen to explain in more detail the contours of this choice in the columns of The Team This morning. A reality far from the coach’s tearful tribute. It is the latter, through his behavior in recent weeks, which would have pushed Antoine Griezmann towards inevitable retirement.
« Before, the Blues were his oxygen when his situation at the club could be annoying […] But he was no longer the player around whom the coach organized his team, which affected him. On the contrary, he was positioned one shot to the right, another in support of the attacker, another a little more in the middle. He was even a substitute in Germanywhich had never happened to him since Griezmann became “Grizou”. We still wish Antoine Griezmann to receive a tribute worthy of his career in Blue: IMMENSE!
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