After more than a million likes on these “Medal Alerts”, the French football player prompted the social network X on Wednesday to create a “hashemoji” featuring his face in miniature.
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Antoine Griezmann, straw hat on his head and big smile, in the form of an emoji. The French footballer, vigie of the tricolor medals on social networks for the Olympic Games of Paris 2024, is very successful. In a message published Wednesday July 31 on their own social network, X France announces to the French footballer that his “Medal Alerts” have exceeded “the million likes mark”.
The 2018 world champion with the Blues delights his 8.7 million subscribers on the social network X, improvising as a virtual room driver, whether he is in the stands or in front of his television. His messages on X have become so viral that the hashtag AlerteMédaille is trending on the social network. Responding to the message from X France, Antoine Griezmann asked, visibly amused, if this success allowed him to “unlock a level”The answer is yes, for the social network, which has created a “hashmoji”, that is to say an emoji in the image of the footballer which now appears for each use of the hashtag (or hashtag) #AlerteMédaille.
“Thanks to the ‘Medal Alert’ and especially thanks to you, we have the right to our Grizi HashMoji! Come on French people, we want medals”congratulated Antoine Griezmann in a publication on Xviewed four million times, Thursday August 31.
The 33-year-old French international is passionate about sport and he showed it during these Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games. Since the first French medal, won last Saturday by judoka Shirine Boukli, he has not missed any of the French successes.
As in 2021 during the Tokyo Olympics, Antoine Griezmann announced the French medals almost within the minute with the now famous #AlerteMédaille and a photo of the victorious athlete. For example, his post to congratulate the French swimmer Léon Marchand, “the little prince of the basin”has garnered over 130,000 likes and has been shared no less than 19,000 times.
The player, born in Mâcon, dreamed of treading the Olympic pitch with the French football team, coached by Thierry Henry. But he was prevented from doing so by his club, Atletico Madrid. Grizou has also returned to training in Spain.