Antoine Griezmann would have dreamed of a better birthday present.
This Tuesday, the French international with 117 selections will blow out his thirty-two candles with his partners from the France team in Clairefontaine.
But the native of Macon expected another outcome in the "duel" he had with Kylian Mbappé as to the captaincy of the national team.
It is the Paris-SG striker who will wear the symbolic armband against the Netherlands on Friday evening (8:45 p.m.), as part of the start of qualifying for Euro 2024.
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Monday evening, the player of Atlético Madrid, who started with the Blues in 2014 under the orders of Didier Deschamps, to the point of becoming a manager and a leader during the adventures of 2016 and 2018, but also in Qatar for the last World Cup, did not hide his pain in the training center of the France team.
Griezmann dreamed of wearing the armband until Euro 2024
When the coach explained to him, after the common dinner, his choice to name the PSG striker captain of the Blues and by ricochet…
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