Diego Forlan He was a ruthless goalscorer who vaccinated everything that moved, Kun Aguero It was the magic of the meadow that made the Calderón rumble, Fernando Torres was the Peter Pan of all fans, Diego Costa It was the beast that marked a 7.5 earthquake on the mattress identity scale and Radamel Falcao He was a wild tiger capable of finishing anything, even a washing machine that fell from the south. NASTYnothing Griezmann was and is something else. It belongs to a different category. The Frenchman, who earned a golden ball for the one who had no advertising and a different color on the shirt, that’s about it the best player Atlético de Madrid has had in the last twenty years of its history. Big words.
Griezmann, who if he hadn’t left would have been considered one of the top three football players in all of rojiblanca history, is a legendary player. He has numbers for a level midfielder without being one, he has records for effective central defense without being one, he has stats for a level midfielder without being one, and he has stats for elite midfielders without being one. to be one. He is a total football player. The most complete who has worn the red and white shirt. He does not eat at Messi’s table, nor at CR7’s. Antoine eats in his. In which it makes him one of the best players world football has produced in the last decade, in which he should have received much more media attention than he has been accorded.
baked in it Zubietamoved by Simeoneout of place in the Camp now and reinvented on his return, Griezmann has traded whistles for applause, discontent for affection, and resentment for recognition. He assumed that Erika Choperena was right, he left the place where he was one and returned to the place where he is an absolutely happy guy. Florence Perez He usually brags that almost all high level players are born “to play for Real Madrid”. Antoine was born to play for Atético de Madrid, because he knows that the rojiblanco has one color and not two. Griezmann, having lost speed and a little scoring ability, has rediscovered one of his great superpowers: the gift of ubiquity. It is everywhere. Generates, divides, leads, assists, scores, clears, steals, speeds up or slows down, goes to ground, wins duels, doesn’t stop running, always reads what the game needs and is always ready to sacrifice for the team . He is the most perfect creation of cholismo: a world star with the soul of an ordinary herd. Atleti starts and ends with Antoine. It is the beginning and the end of everything. From Atleti and everything Simeone designs.
Last year, when his goal-scoring stats were negligible, many prosecutors took the opportunity to take their toll, insinuating that his return had been a hoax and questioning whether he should never have returned, because that second chance was the fault of a Simeone who refused to realize that Griezmann was out of rice. The reality is that after a few months of waiting and swallowing the unpalatable – playing less than 45 minutes per contract to continue – Griezmann has returned to who he has always been. A world star of indisputable value for any team. Simeone, the club’s modern Luis, risked putting his hand in the fire for Antoine. And watching Griezmann play, the verdict is clear. Not only did it not burn, but again, Cholo was right. As almost always, by the way, no matter how annoying it is.
In a layer that hasn’t matched lately, grezmann it is a unanimous factor. The one with pink hair, the one who used to wear it yellow and one day he’ll dye it ‘tutti frutti’ if he feels like it, he’s half of today’s Atleti, he’s the best player to ever wear that shirt last twenty years and had he not made the mistake of leaving what will always be his home, he would be regarded as one of the best three in the club’s history. Antoine is a legend, a cult attacker and the universal soldier Simeone has always dreamed of. He is happy with Atleti and makes the Atléticos happy.
Reuben Uria
Source: Goal