Antoine Griezmann

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Antoine Griezmann
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Antoine Griezmann (2018)
Personnel
birthday March 21, 1991
place of birth Mâcon ,  France
size 176 cm
position Storm
Juniors
Years station
1997-1999 EC Mâcon
1999-2005 UF Mâcon
2005-2009 Real Sociedad
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
2009-2014 Real Sociedad 180 (46)
2014-2019 Atlético Madrid 180 (94)
2019– FC Barcelona 35 0(9)
National team
Years selection Games (goals) 2
2010 France U19 7 0(3)
2011 France U20 8 0(1)
2010–2012 France U21 10 0(2)
2014– France 78 (30)
1 Only league games are given.
Status: end of season 2019/20

2 As of November 17, 2019

Antoine Griezmann [ ɑ̃.twan ɡʁjɛz.man ] (born March 21, 1991 in Mâcon ) is a French football player . The striker has been playing for Spanish clubs since he was 14. He is under contract with FC Barcelona and is a French international . With the national team, Griezmann became world champion in Russia in 2018 .

Career

society

Origin and youth

Antoine Griezmann was born in 1991 in Mâcon in Burgundy , the second of three children of three children to a city employee and a nurse , and grew up there in modest circumstances with his three years older sister and five years younger brother. Griezmann's ancestors on his father's side come from the Hessian Münster , which is where his German surname comes from; his mother is the daughter of Portuguese immigrants who fled to France in 1957 before the Estado Novo regime of the Portuguese dictator António de Oliveira Salazar . Griezmann's maternal grandfather, Amaro Lopes , was a defender at FC Paços de Ferreira in Portugal .

Griezmann started playing football in his native Mâcon. In 1997 he joined the EC Mâcon and in 1999 the UF Mâcon . His father, who himself coached UFM teams, called on several French clubs to enable Antoine to be admitted to their youth development center, but had neither at Olympique Lyon nor at AJ Auxerre , FC Metz , HSC Montpellier , FC Sochaux or the AS Saint-Étienne success. His technical skills were recognized everywhere, but Antoine was considered too small and too thin.

Breakthrough at Real Sociedad

In 2005, the French scout Eric Olhats became aware of the 14-year-old Griezmann at a C-youth tournament and referred him to the Spanish club Real Sociedad San Sebastián , which invited him to Spain for a trial session . Griezmann convinced and stayed with the Basque club's offspring . The first years after his move to Real Sociedad he lived with his discoverer Olhats, who had taken him in, in the city of Bayonne in the French part of the Basque Country and drove every day to the city 50 kilometers away across the border into Spain for training . In San Sebastián he rose to the first team after a few missions in the second division season 2009/10 .

Griezmann made his professional debut on September 6, 2009 when he came on as a substitute for Jonathan Estrada in the 73rd minute of the Segunda División's second matchday against Real Murcia . On September 27, 2009 he scored his first goal as a professional on the fifth match day against SD Huesca with the 1-0 in the 38th minute. At the end of the season there was promotion to the Primera División . In his first season, Griezmann made 39 appearances, but rarely played over 90 minutes. He scored six goals this season in the league.

Griezmann 2010 in Real Sociedad's shirt

On August 29, 2010, Griezmann made his debut in the Primera División when he came on as a substitute for Francisco Sutil on the first day of the 2010/11 season against Villarreal in the 62nd minute . On October 25, he scored his first goal in the Primera División in a 3-0 win over Deportivo La Coruña . During the season, Griezmann made 37 appearances, but he only had a spot in the first eleven at times. In the league he scored seven goals.

In the 2011/12 season, Griezmann prevailed as a regular at Real Sociedad. He was used for three games in all league games and completed 22 of them over the full season. In total, he scored seven goals in 35 league appearances. Real Sociedad finished the season in twelfth place with 47 points.

The 2012/13 season was successful for Griezmann and his club. With ten goals in 34 league games, he was the club's third-best goalscorer behind Carlos Vela and Imanol Agirretxe . In the league they reached fourth place with 66 points and qualified for the European Cup for the first time in ten years .

Real Sociedad faced Olympique Lyon in the playoff round of qualifying for the 2013/14 Champions League season . In the first leg on August 20, 2013, Griezmann scored his first Champions League goal with the 1-0 ; Real Sociedad won the game in Lyon 2-0. After the return match also 2 had been won 0, Real Sociedad qualified for the group stage of the Champions League, in which one in Group A on Manchester United , FC Shakhtar Donetsk and Bayer 04 Leverkusen hit. After winning a point from six games, Real Sociedad was eliminated from the bottom of the group. The 2013/14 Primera División season was Griezmann's final breakthrough in the Spanish upper class. With 16 goals in 35 games, he was together with Carlos Vela the most successful goalscorer of his club and finished sixth in the scoresheet. Real Sociedad finished the season with 59 points in seventh place and made it to the semi-finals of the Spanish Football Cup , in which they were eliminated against FC Barcelona . Griezmann played himself in the focus of the big clubs through his performances for Real Sociedad and the French national team at the 2014 World Cup and was associated with Manchester United and Bayern Munich .

Atlético Madrid

For the 2014/15 season , Griezmann moved to reigning Spanish champions Atlético Madrid ; he signed a contract running until June 30, 2020, the term of which was extended in June 2016 to June 30, 2021. After a difficult start, Griezmann secured a regular place and scored a total of 44 league goals in his first two seasons.

FC Barcelona

For the season 2019/20 Griezmann moved through its exit clause in the amount of 120 million euros to FC Barcelona . He signed a contract that ran until June 30, 2024 and included a release clause of 800 million euros, and it became one of the most expensive transfers in football history to date .

National team

Antoine Griezmann in the national team jersey (2017)

In 2010, Griezmann took part in the U19 European Championship in their own country with the French U19 national team. In the second group game he scored two goals against Austria . At the end of the tournament, the French won the title. He then played for the U20 and U21 national teams of France .

In early November 2012, Griezmann was suspended by the French Football Association until December 31, 2013. The reason was an unauthorized leaving of the U21 training camp in Le Havre in October 2012 with some teammates, including Yann M'Vila and Wissam Ben Yedder , and a nightclub visit in Paris that night. The U21s then failed in the playoffs of qualifying for the U21 European Championship 2013 in Israel to Norway .

In 2014 , Griezmann took part in the World Cup in Brazil with the French senior team and played in three of five games from the start. France were eliminated in the quarter-finals after a 1-0 defeat against eventual world champions Germany .

At the European Championships in France in 2016 , he was part of the first team in seven games for the French team . In the second group game against Albania , he scored the goal to make it 1-0 in the final minute; the game was won 2-0 . In the round of 16 against Ireland he scored both goals to make it 2-1 . In the 5-2 win against Iceland in the quarter-finals , he was involved with two assists and one goal. In the semifinals he scored both goals for a 2-0 win against the German team. The final against Portugal was lost 0-1 . With six goals, Griezmann was the top scorer of this European Championship and was awarded the Golden Shoe , and he was also elected to the team of the tournament .

At this final round, several French and foreign specialist journalists gave him the wordplay nickname "Grizou", based on the nickname "Zizou" of the French football legend Zinédine Zidane , because he had developed into the main force of the national team. The L'Équipe wrote:

"The French team is in the final of the European Championship like the Platini generation in 1984, like the Zidane generation in 2000, and you don't have to work too hard to give them a name now: Antoine Griezmann."

Griezmann took part in the 2018 World Cup with the national team. In the opening game, the 2-1 win against Australia , he scored the 1-0 goal with a penalty. In the last sixteen he scored again with a penalty in a 4-3 win against Argentina . He then scored in the quarter-finals against Uruguay to make it 2-0. In the semifinals against Belgium (1-0) Griezmann prepared the only goal. Also in the final , which the French won 4-2, he scored a goal with a penalty. Griezmann became world champion with his team and named Man of the Match after the game .

successes

Griezmann with the World Cup trophy (2018)

National team

Atlético Madrid

Personal honors

Private

Since 2011 Griezmann is with the Spaniard dating Erika Choperena, whom he married on June 15, 2017th They have had a daughter since April 8, 2016.

Griezmann's sister Maud is one of the survivors of the terrorist attacks in Paris on November 13, 2015 , when 130 people were killed in Islamist- motivated attacks in five different locations in Paris . She was at a concert by the rock band Eagles of Death Metal in the Bataclan concert hall when it was stormed by three terrorists shooting around, killing 90 people. Antoine Griezmann played at the same time in the Stade de France in Saint-Denis, about seven kilometers away, in the French national team's friendly against Germany, which was also a target.

Griezmann is known as a basketball fan and regularly watches games in the North American NBA .

Web links

Commons : Antoine Griezmann  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ Lars Herd: France's superstar Griezmann: Ancestors lived on the Gersprenz. In: op-online.de . July 5, 2018, accessed July 16, 2018 .
  3. ^ Adam Bate: Antoine Griezmann is France's hero but his roots are in Portugal. In: skysports.com . July 10, 2016, accessed March 3, 2017 .
  4. ↑ after " Antoine Griezmann, the blue pearl ", Paris Match from June 26, 2016
  5. ↑ Marius Soyke: Rumor mill: FC Bayern and ManUtd to Griezmann? In: transfermarkt.de . July 17, 2014, accessed March 19, 2017 .
  6. ↑ Welcome, Griezmann! Article on Atletico Madrid website, July 29, 2014, accessed July 8, 2016.
  7. ↑ Club Atlético de Madrid - Griezmann extends his contract until 2021. In: en.clubatleticodemadrid.com. June 23, 2016, accessed September 28, 2016 .
  8. ↑ Barça sign Antoine Griezmann , fcbarcelona.com, July 12, 2019, July 12, 2019, accessed on July 12, 2019 (English).
  9. ^ Commission Fédérale de Discipline. Fédération Française de Football , November 8, 2012, archived from the original on November 11, 2012 ; Retrieved July 8, 2016 (French).
  10. ↑ M'Vila flies from "Equipe Tricolore" after a party . SID article on RP Online , November 8, 2012, accessed July 8, 2016.
  11. ↑ Quoted from the press review in the Frankfurter Rundschau of July 9, 2016, p. S4; quite similar and France Football on July 10, 2016 ( " Platini-Zidane Griezmann, trois sommets pour trois generations ").
  12. ↑ Detailed analysis: UEFA.com Team of the Year 2016. In: UEFA.com . January 5, 2017, accessed March 3, 2017 .
  13. ↑ Goal.com. Wedding! Antoine Griezmann marries girlfriend Erika Choperena. June 17, 2017. Retrieved June 17, 2017 .
  14. ↑ Friend Erika, daughter Mia and Spongbob! That makes the EM hero strong. In: news.de. July 7, 2016, accessed July 10, 2016 .
  15. ↑ Antoine Griezmann's sister reports on the Paris attack. In: focus.de . July 7, 2016, accessed March 3, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Griezmann, Antoine
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH March 21, 1991
PLACE OF BIRTH Mâcon , France