After being repudiated by the athletic fans after his departure to Barcelona, the Frenchman has regained the love of the mattresses based on goals. Four of Atlético’s seven goals in the Champions League bear his signature. But everything could be different without the intervention of Sevan Karian.
Saturday, August 31, 2021. Antoine Griezmann, concentrated with France in Clairefontaine to measure up to Bosnia, signs some documents that he scans and sends to his lawyer. There are just a few minutes to midnight and both in the offices of the Barcelona as at home they assume that there will be no time to register the documentation to seal their return to the Athletic. But the digital expertise of Sevan Karian, The player’s lawyer, manages to complete the process in record time and close his turn to the Metropolitan. Today it can be affirmed that Karian is the great culprit that Atlético is in the second round of the Champions, with four of the seven rojiblancos goals signed by Antoine, and who knows if that Barça play the Europa League without a forward reference.
Nothing has been easy in Antoine’s career. In the beginning it was discarded by many clubs. The Auxerre He did it after taking a wrist X-ray and confirming that he would not exceed six feet. Before it received the number of Olympique Lyon, Sochaux, Saint Etienne, Metz… They said that he did not measure up to Henry, Zidane The Roll, world champions in 1998 with France.
Erika, more than a couple
But with 13 years Philippe Montanier, coach of the Real society, noticed him and took him to Donosti. There it became a myth white-blue, to then go to Atlético. It was not alone, by his side was Erik Choperen, His couple. A Navarrese of Bera That didn’t make it easy for her either, since the footballer courted her for a year before she agreed to go out with him. Today Antoine’s life would not be understood without Erika. Without her and her three children: Mia, Amaro y Alba. “More than a family, they form a team & rdquor ;.
All three of Antoine’s children were born on the same day: April 8. Despite being scheduled births, there is a lot of chance. Mia was born in 2016. In 2019 they repeated because the date of Amaro’s birth was forced as it was the only one in which Antoine could be present due to his football commitments. And the birth of Alba, in 2021, coincided because the doctors only offered that date to the couple on the days that Antoine could accompany them.
Amaro proudly wears the name of his maternal grandfather, Amaro Lopes, former soccer player Paços Ferreira Portuguese who escaped the dictatorship of Salazar in 1956. Lopes, a rough center, fled to France and began working as a bricklayer. He landed in Marseille, where he married and raised a family with whom he moved to Cassis and then to Macon. The Lopes had five children, including Isabelle. On March 21, 1991, Isabelle, cleaning lady, and her husband Alain, political advisor, they welcomed Antoine into the Macon hospital.
Simeone’s Accomplice
Griezmann idolizes Simeone, with whom he connected and has maintained contact beyond football. In fact, the Griezmanns, on their return to Madrid, have returned home in The farm, where they are neighbors of the Simeones. And where Erika and Carla Pereyra, Cholo’s wife, they have regained a friendship they never lost. Antoine always explains that “Simeone has taught me to enjoy tackling or stealing a ball. To enjoy suffering on the field & rdquor ;, as he demonstrated in Porto.
Grizzy he went to Barcelona, where he met his friend Mirotic, whom he met one summer in Chicago when he was still athletic and the forward played in the Bulls. Antoine scored 35 goals and provided 16 assists, generating 51 goals in two seasons. But Messi’s shadow and managerial chaos clouded everything. The Frenchman, who is proud of his time at Barça, maintains contact with Messi, who is also joined by their friendship with Suarez Y Mbappé. When Barça offered him the possibility of returning to Atlético, he did not think about it. Neither he nor Simeone. It is your place in the world.
“For us. For the fans. For the club.”
The new Griezmann: “I came with a lot of desire. I have to leave everything, be an example on and off the field. I think I’m on the right track.” #NewsLet’s pic.twitter.com/Bi13EIm931
– Football in Movistar + (@MovistarFutbol) December 10, 2021
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Last Tuesday Antoine, author of a goal and an assist in Port, finished the ‘flash-interview’ and walked slowly to the To Dragao where the rojiblanca fans were located to celebrate their triumph with them. Among the fans were his parents, his uncles and his wife. Everyone by his side the day that many took for granted the mattress goodbye to the Champions League, but Antoine and his family did believe. Atlético has recovered a star, and Simeone, the greatest of the ‘cholistas’.
Reference-www.elperiodico.com