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WORLD CUP | JAMES GHEERBRANT

Qatar World Cup: Why Antoine Griezmann ranks among international football’s greatest

The Times

How do you rate Antoine Griezmann’s club career? Let us count the wins. One second division trophy with Real Sociedad, a Europa League title (and a Champions League final) with Atletico Madrid, and a Copa del Rey with Barcelona. He probably goes down as one of the best players of his generation not to have won a top-flight league title or a Champions League, along with Harry Kane.

Griezmann has been a very good player at club level: 234 goals in 617 games is an excellent strike rate, and there were times, particularly in those early Atletico seasons when he was the thorny rose in Diego Simeone’s bouquet of barbed wire, when he was truly brilliant. Still, it would be hard to argue that his