Antoine Griezmann Is An Yu-Gi-Oh! Ambassador

When not playing Football Manager the hard way, Barcelona and France striker Antoine Griezmann is playing soccer. When he’s not doing that, he might be watching Yu-Gi-Oh! But does he play it? Hrm...

Konami has named the soccer star an official ambassador for the card game franchise. His relationship with Konami started after he tweeted that he loved Yu-Gi-Oh! and asked to get some cards.

Since Antoine Griezmann is, well, Antoine Griezmann, he got sent a large box of cards and was invited out to Japan. This ended up with Konami offering to make him his own card, which will be released at some time in the future.

Griezmann first got into Yu-Gi-Oh! through the anime as a kid, but doesn’t seem to have much experience with the trading card game. “So I tried to play with a friend, but it was complicated with the whole points system of adding and subtracting points,” Griezmann told YouTuber Lithium2300. A young Griezmann did not play against others, but would just play the deck by himself. “As a kid, I didn’t really play against friends. It was more in front of the TV, in my room with my desk, summoning monsters.”

Source: Kotaku