Exactly a week ago, Antoine Griezmann announced that he was ending his career with the France team. If the announcement was completely unexpected for the general public, the Atlético Madrid striker thought carefully before making his decision, having already thought about saying goodbye to the selection in 2019.
A departure which causes great pain to the Irresistible French. The main group of supporters of the French team, who considered the Mâconnais as the “ real captain » of the Blues, believes that Didier Deschamps made a mistake by entrusting the armband to Kylian Mbappé.
“We have just lost an exemplary model”
“ What stands out from this week, for us, is that the real captain has left, the one who was dubbed by the supporters, Antoine Griezmann », Regretted Fabien Bonnel, the group’s spokesperson, in the columns of the newspaper
The Team this Monday.
The member of the Irrésistibles Français insisted on this thorny episode of captaincy, which would have accentuated “Grizou’s” desire to leave. “ We wondered if the captain’s choice had been the right one, and with this episode, I don’t know, he asked himself. There is an error somewhere, even though we have just lost an exemplary model. »
