Antoine Griezmann created a surprise by announcing his international retirement last September, thus ending a ten-year adventure with the France team. A choice which, according to observers, seems to have been carefully considered and which could well have been precipitated by the emotion of a tense discussion, particularly after the fiery remarks of Mike Maignan following the match against Italy.
Antoine Griezmann plunged the world of football into complete surprise by announcing his international retirement last September. A shocking decision which has continued to make people talk, and this Saturday, The Team lifts the veil on the reasons which pushed the attacker to end his career in French team.
“You put a bullet in his head.”
The sports daily indicates that the September rally weighed in my decision by Antoine Griezmann. The attacker of l'Atlético de Madrid would have notably taken for himself the incendiary speech of Mike Maignan at the end of the match against Italy. In fact, the Milanese doorman had made the walls of the Princes Park by criticizing the attitude of some of his teammates. “ You put a bullet in his head », would have whispered a member of the staff to Maignan.
Deschamps didn't hold it back
Following this, Antoine Griezmann would have understood that he was never going to have the same influence in this locker room again, which pushed him to say stop. Didier Deschamps didn't even try to dissuade him.
