Star commentator for TF1, Grégoire Margotton will be at the microphone of the round of 16 of Euro 2024 which pits the French team against Belgium, this Monday, July 1. And if he shares the bill with Bixente Lizarazu on the small screen, the journalist is just as altruistic with Aurélie, the mother of his three children.
It’s time for a big meeting for football lovers. This Monday, June 1st, against Belgium, the French team will try to finally shine in a competition in which it has struggled to enter, since June. After a first victory against Austria (1-0), the Blues came up against the Netherlands and, above all, Poland, and only finished second in a group ultimately dominated by the Austrians. Opposite, Belgium is not doing any better, having struggled to get out of a seemingly affordable group, composed of Slovakia, Ukraine and Romania. For this knockout match, Grégoire Margotton and Bixente Lizarazu will be on commentary.
Complementary on screen, these two have formed a real bond, “mutual goodwill” throughout their footballing escapades following the French team. A real little couple who separate to better return to their homes, to the Basque Country for Claire Keim’s companion, and to Aurélie for the Lyonnais by birth. Already the father of two children from a first relationship, the sports journalist welcomed three new toddlers with his Franco-Cameroonian partner. The birth of the last cub had also been hastily announced by his favorite consultant who had described him as “holy chick!”
Priority to family life
A cheap nickname for the one who chose to prioritize family life by leaving Canal+ and the daily Ligue 1 soap opera in March 2016. In an interview given to France Footballthis son of teachers welcomed the decisive pass from TF1 as “A blessing”no longer able to afford to leave his tribe every other weekend.
And the calm tone of his voice persists once the cameras are turned off. “I live with hypertension and it’s not possible to be two in a couple. So, I decided that for me, it should be okay,” he told the magazine Him. Nothing seems to electrify TF1’s Mr. Foot, not even Benjamin Pavard’s volleys.
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