Antoine Griezmann’s career is as atypical as it is exceptional. A look back in pictures at the major stages that marked the career of the star of the French team.
In three months, Antoine Griezmann will celebrate ten years in the France team. His love story with the Blues is idyllic, so much so that the 32-year-old is today one of the best players in the history of the French selection. “It’s very rare the matches where Griezmann is not goodunderlined journalist Daniel Riolo last April. The French team is at the top with him. In the top 3, for me, he has already moved Henry since he took him out. And if we remove aesthetic symbolism, there is a match with Zidane, but aesthetic symbolism in football is very important. » And yet, like Olivier Giroud, nothing predestined “Grizou” to such a career. The native of Mâcon might never have even become a professional footballer if he had not left for Spain at the age of 14. Indeed, recruiters from French clubs judged his physique to be too frail at the time and kept failing him during detections.
It is Real Sociedad who will have a hollow nose by giving him a two-month trial before offering him a first contract. And it is naturally within the training based in San Sebastián, in the Basque Country, that the young left-hander completes his training and completes the first five seasons of his professional career. The rest is much better known to the general public. Griezmann will become one of the major players for Atlético de Madrid and the France team. Only his time at FC Barcelona will not be crowned with success. For the rest, “Little Prince” has touched the Grail.
