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The forward Antoine Griezmann<\/strong>top scorer in the history of Atl\u00e9tico de Madrid<\/strong>closed this Tuesday his signing for the Orlando City<\/strong>with whom he has signed for two years plus an optional third and which he will join starting next season, in July 2026, once the current season with the red and white team ends, as announced by both clubs in separate statements.<\/p>\n “Atl\u00e9tico de Madrid and Orlando City SC have reached an agreement for the incorporation of Antoine Griezmann to the American club starting next season. The forward has traveled to Orlando, with the club’s permission, during the two days of rest granted to the first team, to formalize his contract with the Florida team,” Atl\u00e9tico de Madrid announced at 3:00 p.m. Spanish time in a statement, at the same time as Orlando City.<\/p>\n “The striker will return to training this week alongside the red and whites who have not traveled with their national teams to face the final stretch of the season, in which we have ahead of us an exciting Copa del Rey final, as well as the quarter-final tie of the Champions League, in which we will seek a place in the semi-finals,” added the Madrid club. <\/p>\n For his part, the Atleti forward, after the official confirmation, has assured that his “present is still red and white” and his “heart will be red and white forever”, while highlighting his objectives before the end of this season of “lifting that Copa del Rey” and going “as far as possible in the Champions League.”<\/p>\n “It’s not easy to put words to what I feel, because This club is my home and you are my family.<\/strong> It has been an incredible journey, full of unforgettable games, goals, joy and a passion that only those of us who feel for Atleti can understand,\u201d he begins in his publication on his Instagram account and reproduced by Atl\u00e9tico on its website.<\/p>\n “But let’s leave, for now, the future in the future: because I’m not leaving yet. I have months left with this shirt, months to leave my life in our stadium and outside, to lift that Copa del Rey and to dream of going as far as possible in the Champions League,” said the top scorer in club history<\/strong>with 211 points.<\/p>\n “We still have many opportunities ahead of us to be happy. I want every minute I have left here to be a tribute to this shield. The best remains. We will do it as always: together. My present remains red and white until the last breath of this 2026 season. And my heart will be forever. A\u00fapa Atleti,” he expressed.<\/p>\n This season he will still continue in the red and white team, with which he has nine days of LaLiga EA Sports left, the final of the Copa del Rey on July 18 against Real Sociedad and the Champions League, in which he faces Barcelona in the quarterfinals.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The forward Antoine Griezmanntop scorer in the history of Atl\u00e9tico de Madridclosed this Tuesday his<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":923,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/922\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}The objective of this season: “the Copa del Rey and go as far as possible in the Champions League”<\/h2>\n