Antoine Griezmann, the child of the 'pumpkins' in France

Before triumphing in the Real, he was rejected by Auxerre, Lyon, Sochaux, Saint Etienne and Metz. In a lathe that played with Montpellier, it was discovered by Eric Olhats.

Antoine Griezmann wears a tattoo on his wrist: "Make your life a dream and your dream, a reality". The quote is from Antoine Saint-Exupery, the writer of The Little Prince, his nickname. But more than the book, may have to do with what the French had to fight in his childhood to succeed in football. Few footballers will have taken so many setbacks in his career as Griezmann, who after playing as a kid at Charnay-les-Macon and Union Football Maconnais, was rejected by most of the renowned teams in France.

First, in the Auxerre, that club that lived its splendor with Guy Roux on the bench and saw qualities but did not keep it. The Lyon, club of which Griezmann was a follower, also told him that not after being a year going to train the Plaine des Jeux de Gerland. Sochaux and Saint Etienne rejected him. The last one to do it was the Metz, a club that also rejected one such guy ... Michel Platini. The reason for discarding Griezmann was almost always the same: his fragile physical appearance. That invited the player's father to do an x-ray on the wrist at the Vichy promises center to assess what his growth might be.

Until finally his opportunity came. Griezmann traveled to Paris with Toulouse to play the Challenge Bernard-Brochard at the Camp des Loges (Saint-Germain-en-Laye) where he usually trains the PSG. It was there that Griezmann met Èric Olhats, the man who took him to a test to the Royal Society ... The story of Antoine Griezmann, the boy who had been rejected by half France for his fragile appearance, was going to start to change .