Griezmann: "I didn't leave Atlético to win Champions, I went to learn another football"

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The Barcelona striker, Antoine Griezmann, reviewed his career from hard beginnings to his arrival at the Barca team, where he seeks to understand and learn a "new style", already getting along with Luis Suárez and Leo Messi and taking out the innate football, which comes out without to think a lot and that he had his base in the Real Society. "They always said that he was too small, they did x-rays of my wrist to see how far I would grow, they were very difficult moments but in the field I forgot," he said Wednesday the Frenchman, in an interview with UEFA tv, where he remembered his beginnings and again had beautiful words for both Real and Atleti. "Everything that is my first-touch game, of walls, of looking forward, I learned in Real. The basis of my game, thanks to Real, when I noticed a change was when I signed for Atleti, it was a very hard change, "he said, with special mention to Diego Pablo Simeone. "He wouldn't let me do what I was doing at Real," he said. "He always had his voice behind me asking for more and asking for things I didn't have, working for the team. In Real I didn't get down so much. It cost me until December but I learned defensively , tactically and I was more goalscorer thanks to him. Everything I learn I keep. I put it at the service of the team. I noticed a change in my second year of Atleti, where I said "this is the player I want to be." and from Atleti and he took me to be world champion, "he added. The Frenchman keeps his imagination on the grass as the best virtue. "I don't have one against one or much dribbling. In Real I always looked for walls or play a touch or enter the area and create danger. When I play football I do what I get, I don't think much. If I'm wrong or sad in my private life, in the countryside you will notice, "he explained." DUELE A LOT "THE PENALTY OF SAN SIRO The French striker made it clear that he did not leave Atleti to win titles. "I didn't leave the Atleti for winning Champions, nor winning more titles. I left the Atleti to learn a new game, new philosophies. Learn another football, another team. The Atleti can win the league and the Champions any year." Barcelona, the world champion with France is gradually adapting. "I have to learn a new position and also understand my new teammates. I don't get caught by Luis, Messi, the media, my side. Messi is amazing, you have to enjoy it, it's a show to see him play and play with he, "he said, before explaining the most intimate adaptation." I am someone very shy. I do not usually talk to others, but everything will come in time. I will not give a conversation but we are learning to know Luis, Leo. we have shared dinners and will go to more. What happens outside the field can only help inside, "he added, before remembering his biggest sports spine, the penalty that failed in the 2016 Champions League final in San Siro." I think a lot. It hurts. a lot. It made us lose the final, if we put it in the second one right away. We had come out very well, we were squeezing up. It will always hurt, even if I win it with Barça. That final will hurt like that with Atleti it was my goal, the whole club and have it I was on my feet, I cannot go back, if I had not already done so. In 10 or 15 years it will hurt the same, "he settled.