Paul Rouget, Media365: published on Monday October 14, 2024 at 1:46 p.m.
Now free during the international breaks, Antoine Griezmann, who stopped the Blues, was able to satisfy his passion for the NFL this weekend.
He is “irreplaceable”, as Didier Deschamps and his players recalled. But it was nevertheless necessary to replace Antoine Griezmann, who announced to everyone’s surprise his international retirement before this October gathering. Thursday, during the victory of the Blues against Israel on behalf of the 3rd day of the League of Nations (4-1), the French supporters showed that they had not forgotten it, one of them brandishing notably a “Grizou we love you” banner in the stands of the Budapest stadium, where this meeting had been relocated.
But how did the Atlético de Madrid player, international since 2014 and selected 137 times, for 44 goals, for the French team, keep busy during this international break? Because for ten years, he has been systematically, or almost, retained by the Blues, he who holds the record for consecutive selections, a priori for (a very) long time, with 84 consecutive caps between August 2017 and November 2023. A record which does not risk so no getting beat anytime soon.
From lobbying to the NFL
If we expected him at the Metropolitano, the lair of the Colchoneros, for the new meeting between the French and Spanish streamers, finally lost by the Tricolores on Saturday evening (0-2), the Mâconnais was not there, since he had left the Spanish capital to satisfy another of his passions. A great fan of American sports, he went to London, to the Tottenham stadium, to attend, with a beer in hand, the NFL match won by the Chicago Bears against the Jacksonville Jaguars (35-16), in front of more of 61,000 spectators.
He recorded a new episode of his podcast dedicated to the NFL, “Grizi Huddle”, and also spoke about the possibility of seeing an American football match at the Metropolitano, while Madrid will host an NFL match next year , but at the Bernabeu. “I tried with the people at the club and with those from the NFL. For me, the stadium is the most beautiful that exists, and everything around it, with the parking lot and the fan zones that could be there “It’s something that they really take into account,” he explained in comments relayed by Marca.
