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After a very disappointing Euro and a worrying France-Italy (1-3), Antoine Griezmann took stock of his situation in the French team and his relationship with Didier Deschamps.
Antoine Griezmann doesn’t hide it, he experienced a Euro 2024
“complicated”. “Because there were a lot of changes of positions, tactical changes, so you had to deal with it…”summed up the Mâconnais this Sunday morning in Téléfoot.
While Didier Deschamps has changed systems several times, Griezmann himself has been used in several positions, even being lined up on the right in the round of 16 against Belgium, which is not what he prefers. “For me, it’s always been in the axis, this feeling of freedom. I need that to feel good mentally, explains “Grizou”. My game goes a lot through my head, my mental. If I have doubts, questions, it shows directly, and that was seen at the Euro.
“Always immense respect”
Griezmann even finished the competition as a substitute, and this sudden drop in status could have led him to think about his international future. But there is no question of him stopping. “The French team is very important, it’s a source of pride. I always want to play, to represent France, after that it will be up to Didier Deschamps to choose.”he replies.
Didier Deschamps, precisely. Griezmann was his darling for a long time, his main man, but something seems to have broken since then. But these changes of positions and the passages on the bench have not affected the relationship between the two men, assures the player. “I still have immense respect and affection for him. He was the only one and the first here in the selection, explains Griezmann about the man who gave him his 136 caps. I owe him a lot. For me it is always a source of pride and immense joy to play alongside him, to play for him and to give everything on the pitch for him.”
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