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Antoine Griezmann is a French professional footballer who plays for the France national team as a forward. He began his career at Real Sociedad, making his debut in 2009 and winning the Segunda División title in his first season. Across five seasons there, he scored 52 goals in 201 official matches. In 2014, he transferred to Atlético Madrid for €30 million. Griezmann was a French youth international, who represented his country at under-19, under-20 and under-21 level. In 2010, he was part of the team that won the 2010 UEFA European Under-19 Football Championship on home soil. He made his debut for the senior national team in 2014 and played at that year’s World Cup, helping France to the quarter-finals. Griezmann was the top scorer and Player of the Tournament at UEFA Euro 2016, where the French were runners-up on home soil, after a 1–0 defeat to Portugal. For his performances during the course of 2016, he was shortlisted for the Ballon d’Or 2016 Award in which he finished in third place.
Griezmann Antoine
Match Worn Boots
Club Atletico de Madrid
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During the last 2015-2016 UEFA’s Champions League and La Liga games Antoine Griezmann wore totally blackout boots. Rumors said that behind those boots there was the player sponsor’s changing from Puma to Nike. It’s pretty uncommon to see professional players without logos on their boots. Finally the player revealed that he had worn a proto sample boots of what was expected to be a blackout version of the Puma evoSPEED SL II launched in Summer 2016. These boots are pretty rare as only few sample boots were made for the player in order to test the new boot’s fitting.
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Griezmann has a sponsorship deal with German sportswear company Puma, and has appeared in commercials for the company. His ‘Hotline Bling’ goal celebration features in a 2016 Puma commercial. Puma unveiled Griezmann’s own custom made football boots, PUMA Future 18.1 “Grizi”, in December 2017. These boots were worn by Antoine Griezmann during the season 2016/2017. The particularity is that the two boots are spare boots of two different models. Better to say two different colorways of a same Puma boots model. Griezmann during the seasons 2015/2016 and 2016/2017 played many games wearing boots of different colors on his feet. In this case he merged together a 2015/2016 colorway with a 2106/2017 colorway. On 23 June 2016, Griezmann signed a new contract with Atlético, which would keep him at the club until 2021. On 1 November 2016, Griezmann scored both of Atlético’s goals (with his second in the 93rd minute) in their 2–1 home win against Rostov in a 2016–17 Champions League Group D match (in which he was voted the Player of the Match) to enable Atlético to progress to the round of 16 with two matches to spare. On 22 April 2017, he scored the only goal of a win at RCD Espanyol, thus becoming the second Frenchman after Karim Benzema to score 100 La Liga goals (in 247 games). After another trophyless season, and amid speculation that he could leave Atlético for Manchester United after the conclusion of the 2016–17 season, he extended his contract at the club by one year in June 2017, after learning that Atletico were given a transfer ban and that they could not sign a replacement. His reported release clause was also raised to €100 million (£87 million).
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UEFA chief technical officer Ioan Lupescu, who led the panel of technical observers that named Griezmann as the best player of Euro 2016, said that he “works hard for his team and possesses technique, vision and quality finishing” and branded him “a threat in every game he played”. A quick, modern, and versatile left-footed forward, with an eye for goal, Griezmann has been described as a “team player”, and is capable of occupying several offensive positions in or behind the main attacking line, due to his technical skills, ability to drop deep and link-up play between the forwards and midfielders, or score many goals: he has been deployed as a main striker, in a central role as an attacking midfielder, or as a winger, on either flank. Griezmann is an accurate finisher with either foot from both inside and outside the area, and is also good in the air and accurate with his head, in spite of his relatively small stature. In addition to his ability to both score and create goals, he has also been praised for his work-rate, attacking movement, positional sense, and ability to interpret the game, which, combined with his pace, mobility and energy, enables him to make effective attacking runs to beat the defensive line. He is also accurate from penalties and set-pieces. Griezmann features on the cover of the French edition of FIFA 16 alongside global cover star Lionel Messi, having been selected for the role by public vote. Ahead of Euro 2016, Griezmann featured in advertisements for Beats by Dr. Dre headphones, alongside Harry Kane, Mario Götze and Cesc Fàbregas. Griezmann and his partner had their first child, a daughter, in April 2016. His sister Maude was a survivor of the siege of the Bataclan theatre in the November 2015 Paris attacks, which took place as he was playing against Germany at the Stade de France. His sister is studying to be his image rights manager, and his younger brother Theo plays for Sporting Mâcon, the local Portuguese club. Griezmann has a dancemove named after him in the popular French novelty song Logobitombo (Corde à sauter)
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On 12 July 2019, Barcelona announced the signing of Griezmann after they paid his €120 million buy-out clause, with the player set to sign a five-year contract with the club.[82] Later that day, however, Atlético Madrid disputed Barcelona’s deal to sign the player, stating that the fee paid falls €80 million short of his release clause, claiming that Griezmann had agreed to move to the Nou Camp before 1 July, when his €200 million buy-out clause was lowered to €120 million. Atlético later stated they have “started the procedures it considers appropriate for the defense of its legitimate rights and interests” as a result of any deal, with reports in Spanish media suggesting the club planned to go to football’s governing body FIFA to argue their case. On 14 July, Griezmann was presented at the Camp Nou and was handed the number 17 shirt, and made his debut in a pre-season friendly in Japan against Chelsea. Also on 14 July, some angry fans of Atlético has defaced Griezmann’s plaque outside the Wanda Metropolitano following his departure to the rivals club. Atlético then officially submitted a complaint to La Liga, whose president Javier Tebas later stated “it is possible to block [Griezmann’s] transfer”, but also noted “La Liga have [yet] to decide [the] course of action.” Griezmann had his competitive debut on 16 August in a 1–0 defeat to Athletic Bilbao. On 25 August, Griezmann scored a brace and assisted during his home debut, which ended in a 5-2 win vs Real Betis. He scored his first Uefa Champions League goal for FC Barcelona on 27-11-2019, in a 3-1 win against Borussia Dortmund assisted by Lionel Messi, substituting injured Ousmane Dembele in 26 minute’s first half.
