Antoine Griezmann was born on the 21st of March 1991 in Mâcon, . In his youth he played football since he was six. Playing for the local Mâcon team. At the age of eight Antoine played for his second youth team, Mâconnais. He was not very tall and not in a good physical condition and was often bullied, his coaches often gave up on him.

Eventually in 2005 he quit Mâconnais and he and his father went to look for a football team everyday. Again and again he was rejected by teams because of his size and physicality.

“Everyday he would come home with our father saying: no acceptances, maybe next time. But no matter how many times he was turned down he would try again and again, that’s just some determination you have to respect.” Theo Griezmann, 2016

Eventually one of Antoine’s Dad’s friends knew the manager of the youth team of Real Sociedad and said that maybe going to Spain will help him. So Antoine and his family moved to San Sebastián in late 2005. Antoine signed up for Sociedad and clicked immediately, Antoine’s skill based game fit with the Spanish style of playing.

After playing for Sociedad junior team for four years he started as a sub for the adult team. He was brought on rarely in the beginning but slowly he started to be brought on more often. Eventually he was put on the starting 11, at the end of his first season in Sociedad they’d won the season prompting the team to La Liga and guess who was their top goal scorer; Antoine.

He played so many more seasons and played for the youth French team along the way as well but 2014 is when it all started truly. Griezou had made a name for himself, playing in the World Cup and scoring some goals inside. Antoine had got a few teams keeping an eye on him. Until in late 2014 Atletico Madrid gave him a thirty million euro transfer, Griezmann accepted and moved to Atletico.

Griezmann doesn’t stop becoming more and more popular, becoming best player of the Euro 2016 and a finalist of the Ballon D’or 2016. Antoine Griezmann is truly a legend