{"id":201909,"date":"2026-03-23T01:52:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T01:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/201909\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T01:52:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T01:52:07","slug":"antoine-griezmann-is-flying-to-the-us-to-sign-for-orlando-city-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/201909\/","title":{"rendered":"Antoine Griezmann is flying to the US to sign for Orlando City – report"},"content":{"rendered":"

Marca and Cadena SER<\/a> are reporting Sunday night that Atl\u00e9tico Madrid star Antoine Griezmann left Spain shortly after his side\u2019s 3-2 loss to Real Madrid<\/a> in the Bernab\u00e9u in order to sign for Major League Soccer\u2019s Orlando City SC.<\/p>\n

Per Matteo Moretto and David Medina \u2014 who had the news first at Marca<\/a> \u2014 Griezmann is flying to United States with Atl\u00e9tico\u2019s permission. The 35-year-old is heading for Orlando, Florida, where he will sign \u201cthe last big contract of his brilliant career\u201d and officially join the Lions from June, after the European football season ends.<\/p>\n

Fabrizio Romano<\/a> claims that Griezmann will join Orlando City on a free transfer, and that his contract there will run for two years<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Orlando City has been pursuing Griezmann for the past month<\/a>, but the player had made clear that he was not going to leave Atl\u00e9tico midseason<\/a>. Griezmann is hoping to win the Copa del Rey on April 18, when Atl\u00e9tico will face his former club Real Sociedad in the final at Sevilla\u2019s Estadio de La Cartuja, and Atl\u00e9tico are taking on FC Barcelona (for whom Griezmann played between 2019 and 2021) in the UEFA Champions League quarterfinals next month as well.<\/p>\n

Griezmann is one of the most popular players in Atl\u00e9tico\u2019s history and he is the club\u2019s all-time top scorer with 211 goals. Despite starting this season in a reserve role, the World Cup-winning forward has reasserted his importance to Diego Simeone with a series of brilliant performances since the end of November \u2014 proving once more that the club will have a massive challenge to replace him in Apollo Sports Capital\u2019s first summer as majority shareholders.<\/p>\n

Griezmann, who twice finished third in Ballon d\u2019Or voting while at Atl\u00e9tico, has scored 13 goals and provided four assists in 42 appearances across all competitions. He is Atleti\u2019s top scorer in the Copa del Rey with five goals, and no player in LaLiga has more goals as a substitute than Griezmann with six.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Marca and Cadena SER are reporting Sunday night that Atl\u00e9tico Madrid star Antoine Griezmann left Spain shortly after…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":201910,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[93085,139,141,140],"class_list":["post-201909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-atletico-madrid-news","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201909\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/201910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}