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While he has just announced his international retirement, Antoine Griezmann would already have in mind returning to the French team to play the saviors.
The Blues opened a new era on Monday, meeting at Clairefontaine to prepare for the two matches against Israel and Belgium. For the first time in more than a decade, Antoine Griezmann is indeed absent. Consequence of his international retirement announced last week. An announcement which continues to be talked about despite the new Mbappé affair, the non-selection of the French captain even though he participated in Real Madrid’s last two matches sparking heated controversy
“It’s the worst possible timing, even worse than his documentary at the time. Retiring internationally while the French team is the most important thing for him, with the World Cup in his sights, it makes absolutely no sense, thus attacked the journalist Romain Molina in a video . For him, for the team, a week before a rally, it’s a disaster. »
He dreams of a return to Zidane
And the journalist continues by mentioning the main reasons for this sudden retirement, between lack of consideration and a strong voice around the France team. “First point, there is no boss. This situation happens because the French team and the Federation are on autopilot. And why is she coming? It’s above all an ego problem, he assured. He had already threatened to leave and he feels that he does not get the recognition he deserves. He thought he was going to be the captain and he didn’t understand at all that he was exiled to one side, that the I no longer came through him, he saw it as a disavowal. »
However, according to Romain Molina, Antoine Griezmann has not definitively given up on the Blues and can imagine making a comeback like Zidane in the summer of 2005 when qualification for the 2006 World Cup was in danger. . “But we will be very clear. All the people I contacted told me, ‘Antoine is only waiting for one thing, that it doesn’t go well, that we call him back and that he makes a Zidane-style comeback with him at the center of the game.’ “, he said, showing himself to be pessimistic for the future of the France team: “The Blues are going to the wall. »
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