Like his friends Hugo Lloris and Olivier Giroud with the Los Angeles FC (winner of the dam against the American club organized at the last minute by FIFA), Antoine Griezmann is a retired world champion of the French team who will play another World Cup. Namely the first 32 participants' club World Cup, organized in the United States (June 14-July 13). Inter Miami-Al Ahly launches the competition on Saturday evening.
Atlético begins directly against PSG, the other favorite in group B, Sunday at the Rose Bowl de Pasadena (12 noon in California, 9 p.m. in France, live on TF1 and Dazn), before facing the Seattle Sounders and Botafogo, on June 19 and 23. The opportunity for “Grizi” to find his former tricolor teammates Presnel Kimpembe, Lucas Hernandez, Warren Zaïre-Emery and his friend Ousmane Dembélé.
Diego Simeone is happy to be able to count on his fetish number 7, even if the latter comes out of a very bad season, at 34 years old. His disappearance during the second part of the season (one goal and three assists on the last 21 games) clearly plunged the Colchoneros into the slump, with eliminations in the Champions League and in the King Cup each time at home in the return match and a catastrophic course in Liga.
Griezmann, his controversial departure at Barça
“Griezmann is a real wonder, an absolute legend from the club. Three or four months after his departure, he had already understood that he had made a mistake. The supporters made him understand this and it was not easy. But by dint of work and goals – as I always say, goals heal everything – he caught up. The supporters are respectful, they want to win, and he is a high -level player ”launched “El Cholo” about Griezmann, top scorer in the history of the capital's club.
Antoine Griezmann had caused a scandal to Atlético fans when he left at Barça in 2019 (against 120 million euros), being the target of many actions of the regulars of the Metropolitano, because the player had made a gigantic cinema the year before. So a year from the end of his contract, the French international had staged his choice to stay in a documentary entitled The decision (in reference to
The Decision From LeBron James in 2010), moreover at the start of the World Cup. Griezmann had even shot two different versions in case …
