Since September, the French team has had to learn to live without the darling of the French public, the man with the smiles always hanging on his lips, Antoine Griezmann. To everyone's surprise, and after a particularly complicated gathering, the 2018 world champion decided to retire internationally. An unexpected decision both in its timing and in the way of announcing it, a short video posted on his social networks, and then nothing. But today the newspaper the Team made some revelations on the reasons which pushed the Atlético Madrid player to act in this way.
“You put a bullet in his head.”
Obviously, seeing the captain's armband being entrusted to Kylian Mbappé affected the number 7 of the Blues, who found less and less his place in a group which is evolving with the departures of those close to him, Giroud, Lloris, Varane. But above all, in September, when the French team had just suffered a big defeat at the Parc des Princes against Italy, he would have taken for himself the now famous speech of Mike Maignan, the goalkeeper pointing out certain attitudes of “starlets” of his teammates. “You put a bullet in his head,” even confided an “influential member” of the French staff to the Milan goalkeeper, speaking of Antoine Griezmann. In the days that followed, “Grizou” made his decision, with some of those close to him also criticizing Didier Deschamps for his management during the Euro, moving around in numerous positions before ending up on the bench. For the moment, even a possible return of Paul Pogba does not seem to be able to change his mind about a return to the blue jersey. But football has proven to us more than once that the door is never closed.
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To summarize
The day when Antoine Griezmann's destiny in the French team changed.
