Paul Rouget, Media365: published on Tuesday January 7, 2025 at 1:03 p.m.
Antoine Griezmann, in great form with Atlético, could well join his former teammates Olivier Giroud and Hugo Lloris at Los Angeles FC.
Since stopping the Blues, to everyone's surprise, Antoine Griezmann has been in great form with his club, Atlético de Madrid. Colchoneros that he saved again on Saturday in the round of 16 of the Copa del Rey, scoring the only goal of the victory against Marbella (1-0), a Spanish third division club. He now has 13 goals and 7 assists in all competitions with the Madrid team, which he could leave next summer, one year from the end of his contract.
Because if the Mâconnais should only decide on his future in March, the MLS seems to be his next base. And not just anywhere, since everything suggests that he should join Olivier Giroud and Hugo Lloris, his friends and former teammates in the French team, at Los Angeles FC.
“A beautiful community of French speakers”
An arrival mentioned by a teammate of the two 2018 world champions in the city of Angels, Maxime Chanot. The 35-year-old defender from Nancy, a Luxembourg international who also has French and American passports, was the guest on the After Foot show on RMC on Monday evening. Asked about his two French teammates, he first released this little sentence: “In the meantime, we hope, a third.”
Asked about the identity of the player in question, he then replied: “Ah you don't have the name, haven't you heard it in rumors? A former French international, very recently…” Before confirm that it was indeed “Grizi”, who would join “a beautiful community of French speakers” within the Californian franchise, since LAFC also counts former Stéphanois Denis Bouanga in its ranks. A big NFL fan, will Griezmann, who also hosts a podcast in Spanish on American football, soon cross the Atlantic?
