Antoine Griezmann turned into the elected of the FC Barcelona to reinforce the forward. The French forward abandoned the Athletic of Madrid after the payment of his clause of rescission and this Sunday was presented officially like new member of the staff culé. During the event, was desvelada one of the grándes incógnitas on his arrival: his dorsal.
Like footballer 'colchonero', carried the '7' and several informations aimed that it wanted to conserve said dorsal in the FC Barcelona. Nevertheless, in Can Barça the '7' is property of Philippe Coutinho that, in spite of that it could finish leaving, still has right on the number that chose the past summer.
Curiously, when Coutinho arrived pertinent of the Liverpool, assigned him the '14' in spite of that the '7' was free. In the Barça decided 'save him' the number to Griezmann, that finally did not want to come. A year afterwards, the '7' is of the Brazilian and Griezmann no it lucirá unless his new mate leave to be it.
Therefore, Griezmann lucirá the dorsal '17', adding a ten to the '7' that always lució in Real Sociedad and Athletic. Previously, in the FC Barcelona, carried it Alcácer, Munir, Song, Pedro, Gio Two Saints, Go Bommel, Mendieta, Christanval, Petit, Bogarde and Amunike. Now, the new star culé will inherit it.
And it is that Griezmann was the elected of the FC Barcelona. It was it from the past year, when the Barcelona club wanted to ficharle paying his clause (that in this moment was of 100 million euros) but found with the desplante of the player. This time, the French has not wanted to leave escape another opportunity and has fichado by the culés, that have blind faith in him.
By his performance with the Athletic of Madrid and with the selection of France, Griezmann has won to pulse the fact that in Can Barça were got obsessed with his arrival. His enormous talent, his capacity of association and, especially, his smell goleador in spite of not being a leading born centre have done that it saw him like indispensable in the Camp Nou.