From Real Madrid to Major League Soccer, the stars of French and world football sometimes change clubs faster than they change addresses. Behind every icon of the game stands a woman, or a man, building a career and a story of their own, far from the simple role of locker room plus-one. Here is what has become, in 2026, of the most followed couples in French and international football.
ANTOINE GRIEZMANN – ERIKA CHOPERENA
Antoine Griezmann has built an extraordinary career, from the 2018 World Cup triumph with the French national team to his standout seasons at Atlético Madrid. In the summer of 2026, after sixteen years split between Spain and the club where he came through the academy, the forward joined Major League Soccer with Orlando City. Erika Choperena, his longtime partner, has followed every one of these moves while keeping her own life away from the media spotlight. The couple married in Spain and marks their anniversary each year with the same discretion. What their story mostly shows is an unusual stability in a sport where contracts change continents almost every season, and where few couples go the distance the way they have.