2023-10-23 11:14:18
Antoine Griezmann is building a great legacy at Atlético Madrid. The attacker led his team to a 3-0 away win at Celta Vigo on Saturday evening. The Frenchman scored all the goals and is now only seven goals behind the club’s historic mark.
Atlético’s record goalscorer in LaLiga is currently legend Luis Aragonés with 123 goals. Griezmann currently has 116 goals. He is already the record goalscorer in all competitions for Madrid. In his career, the 32-year-old scored a total of 162 goals for the Madrilenians and there is still no end in sight.
Antoine Griezmann is playing big once more at Atlético Madrid
And: With now 81 scorer points, according to the Spanish newspaper Sport, he already has the most points in the club’s history. The offensive star replaced Fernando Torres (80 points).
“We all love you”
Griezmann shone once morest Celta Vigo and immediately grabbed the match ball following the win. The fans cheered him on because they hadn’t seen a hat-trick from a player on their team since February 2018. Like on Saturday evening, the player’s name was Antoine Griezmann over five years ago.
The Frenchman is one of the leading players in coach Diego Simeone’s team. After the game, they showed how highly valued his teammates are. Everyone involved who went to the away game signed the game ball. For example, Marcos Llorente wrote on the playground equipment: “We all love you”.
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Barca move hurts Griezmann
After the away win, the 32-year-old thanked his teammates as well as the entire coaching team and staff in an interview with the club media. On the bus ride back, he beamed with joy and posted a photo with the ball on Instagram. Since the beginning of the year, Griezmann has 30 scorer points – 18 goals and twelve assists. A great, even “sensational” (fichajes.net) yield.
The Frenchman found his smile once more with the Madrilenians. He moved from Atlético to FC Barcelona in 2019 for around 120 million euros. This station was ultimately a big and expensive misunderstanding, because following just two seasons, Griezmann was initially loaned back to Madrid for a year before the permanent move was announced in 2022.
For his return, Atlético paid a rumored 10 million loan fee and then a fixed transfer fee of 20 million.
During his time at Barca, Griezmann scored a total of 35 goals and provided 17 assists in 102 competitive games. Even if the numbers don’t sound bad, the two seasons damaged his reputation.
This also had to do with the fact that the expectations were so high because of the transfer fee and he may not have been able to meet them. The return to Atlético was all the more logical.
Back to normal at Atlético
Since then, the son who was lost in the meantime has come up trumps once more for the Madrilenians and has once once more been the leading player that everyone knows.
Last season, the attacker collected 32 points scorer in LaLiga. Griezmann was back to his old self and visibly felt more comfortable in the Atlético environment than at FC Barcelona.
However, he did not win the biggest title of his career with the traditional Spanish club, but with the French national team.
One world title, two bitter final defeats
In 2018, he won the World Cup with the Équipe Tricolore in Russia and was named player of the game following the final once morest Croatia.
No matter how good or bad his form is with his clubs: the national team is still the environment in which he always feels comfortable and almost always delivers.
Because the attacker played in another World Cup final in 2022 (defeat once morest Argentina) and in the final once morest Portugal at the European Championship in his own country in 2016.
Antoine Griezmann won the World Cup in 2018
Griezmann on the verge of France’s scoring crown
To date, Griezmann has played 125 international matches, in which he scored 44 goals and prepared 37 goals.
In the French national team’s top scorer list, he takes first place together with Thierry Henry. At his next scorer point, the 32-year-old is the sole leader in the list.
His contract with Atlético expires in 2026. Griezmann will then be 35 years old. One thing is certain: both with the Madrilenians and in the national team, he has created a “great legacy that is only getting bigger,” as Spanish Sport wrote.
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