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    Erika Choperena, the star of Griezmann, the 'hero' of France

The reductionist term

WAG

(an acronym for women and girlfriends of footballers) has long since ceased to make sense.

Probably because he never had it.

The players' partners are businesswomen, artists and professionals who develop their lives autonomously and independently and no one is surprised by it.

What is more rare is that it transcends the logical influence that these women have on the professional decisions of their partners.

And may that influence make you the new idol of the fans.

A

rare bird

named

Erika Choperena

(31), the wife of

Antoine Griezmann

(30).

Because in the midst of the commotion caused by the Frenchman's return to Atlético and the murmur that part of the Metropolitan's stands still dedicates to the player, Erika has established herself as the perfect instrument to heal the wounds between the fans and Griezmann. The fans' admiration for Erika began after the broadcast of the documentary

La decision

, that quasi reality, produced by a

Piqué

company

, with which Griezmann announced in 2018 that he would continue at Atlético and that he rejected (that year, the next he would leave )

Barcelona's

offer

.

The decision, as its name suggests, related the process by which the player and family reached the determination to continue in Atleti, an outcome in which Erika's opinion was vital.

"If you win the Champions League there you will always be one more; if you win it here you will enter history", is the phrase that Griezmann's wife pronounced and that dazzled and connected with all the mattress fans, making it a trending topic and even appearing on t-shirts and profile photos of tweeters.

A PRIVATE CONVERSATION

The couple's environment sees the reaction that the documentary had at that time and Erika's influence on that

decision

in a "natural" way. "What was transmitted in that documentary is true, a lot of truth. And a lot of transparency and a lot of authenticity. And it is a conversation that is normally private and that in this case was made public. A conversation in which the two of them were resolving their doubts. ", tells

LOC

its environment.

A conversion that emerged from "naturalness", but which marked the beginning of the Erika-hobby idyll, which has continued to consolidate even during the two years that Griezmann has been in Barcelona.

Now, back at Atleti and after knowing what was learned with the broadcast of the documentary, few doubt the influence that Erika has once again had on the return of the Griezmann family to Madrid, where "it has always been her home".

Griezmann in his presentation with Atleti.GTRES

Their house literally, since they have moved back to what was their residence in the

La Finca

urbanization

in Griezmann's first stage at Atlético. There are the neighbors across the street from

Simeone and Carla Pereyra

, Erika's good friend and with whom she forms a tandem that many point out as another of the mainstays for the return of the French to bear fruit. After Griezmann's return and the corresponding post by Erika on her Instagram, Carla and

Beatriz Espejel

(Koke's partner) were the first to welcome her and congratulate her. "With them there is a lot of closeness, there has always been and has never stopped being," they confirm in their environment.

This return to the known is what has made the return of the Griezmann family to Madrid easier.

"They have a fantastic life because it is a city they adore. It is a place in which they have been totally integrated and in which they have been delighted with life," they tell LOC.

A happy life that they have shared since 2011, when they started dating after meeting in the dining room of the

San Sebastián

residence

where she attended as a Pedagogy student from her native Navarra and he as an emerging star of La Real.

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Now, the return to

Madrid

is only clouded by the resistance on the part of the fans to forgive Griezmann for his departure. A murmur in the stands that can only appease a sum of factors: goals, time and, of course, Erika. "Antoine has always adored the Atleti fans, when he arrived, when he has been and when he has been in Barcelona. And the family therefore exactly the same. It is a family love", they affirm from their surroundings, showing themselves convinced that everything will be fixed .

A love for Atleti that Erika not only showed with the documentary but with her multiple winks to the rojiblanca fans in her publications on social networks.

The most viral this summer, when still in Barcelona he wrote on

Instagram

"I know that you are making a huge effort, which sometimes costs you twice as much, but patience, because whoever knows how to wait always receives what he deserves", a message that Atlético's fans interpreted it as a prelude to what was later their return.

It's that she feels very comfortable with the

Atlético de Madrid

fans

.

She loves Atleti and the Atleti people, "say her friends. And the Atléticos love her.

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