The child that no one wanted now costs 100m euros and is one of the best in football

Montpellier believed a little bit more, but only a little bit: to get him on an international tour in Paris, played at the PSG sports centre, at “Camp des Loges”, where “stole” Real Sociedad.

He stole it from him. It's a rather exaggerated term. The Spanish team, in order to obtain Antonie, faced only the French bureaucracy, which prevents a child from emigrating without parental presence.

The solution came from Eric Olhats, the one who looked at “Camp des Loges” and loved with his skills.

He lived in Bayonne, and I had a guy at the club who made his way from French every day to border Spain to San Sebastian. Antonie joined him. In the morning at school and in the afternoon, after an hour's drive by car, he went to Zubiette to train. It was 2005, and Grizmann was 14.

The whole family's dream was finally being realized, which was “ill” after football. My grandfather, Amaro Lopes, Portuguese, had played paços de Ferreira before emigrating to the French village of Macon, 70 miles [70 km] from Lyons, where he worked as a bricklayer. There Antonie's mother was born, who married another footballer who later became director of the Union Foot.

Maconnaise was the team that started playing “Little prince”. Dad and son were crazy OL fans and who knew what Lyon's leaders thought when they saw him on Wednesday evening, destroying Marseilles, in the final of Europe League.

A case of “miopie” general, very special, much like the life and deeds of the Griesmann family. The road to success has all been of pits, filled with water.

Sociedad played a little bit. Talent existed, but the physics wouldn't allow it.

This until the spring of 2009, when an international U-19 tournament, Antonie exploded and the best goalist was declared. The final was just against Atletico Madrid.

In that summer, as a result of his return fate and a series of injuries, he won a seat in the first squad, despite the fact that many others went off favored by him. The coach was Martin Lasarte, Uruguay, who had given the opportunity to debut someone named Louis Suarez.

Greezmann is doing well, but in autumn a sexual scandal involves the man who discovered him, Eric Olhats, the spiritual father, brother and inspiration of Antonie. One parent denounced him for his 13 - year - old message to his son, and a court sentenced him to 3 months of freedom and banned him for 10 years to deal with athletes under 18.

Greezmann left Olhats, who was subsequently acquitted in appeals, 11 months later.

Eric and Antoine are reunited and will not be separated until last summer. They also went through the crisis with the nationals after in October 2021, Griesmann fled along with Niang, Mvila and Ben Yedder from the U-21 gathering point. 400 km of taxi for a wild night for the three young players, three days before the match with Norway, the crucial challenge the blues lost and remained outside Euro-U-21. Grizmann was disqualified for 13 months by the French Football Federation. In March 2014 the sentence was pardoned and Deschamps collected into the national “A”.

From sharing with manager Olhats, his family is looking after Grizman. His father started contact with Barcelona, and his sister Maud deals with public relations.

She too has a story to tell, as she miraculously escaped the terrorist assassination at the Bataclan Theatre in Paris in November 2015.

Greezmann wanted to go to Atletico Madrid with any conditions, and in 2014 he did not share well with the Real Sociedad club. Last year he earnestly asked Manchester United, but he made a pact with Atletico. Since the Spaniards were sentenced by FIFA and couldn't make merkatots, he decided to stay on promising to be sold in the summer of 2018.

Now Barcelona appears to be the club that 1 July will pay the clause for its purchase -- 100m euros. “This is not the time to talk about the future,” said Griesmann after raising the Europe League trophy, but the child that nobody wanted to understand now is worth a fortune.