Antoine Griezmann - A Beautiful Functionality

“The human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.” ~ Dead Poets Society.

Can there be beauty in functionality? In regards to beauty, people won’t talk about things they think only function. Things like maths, science and all its derivatives. However, there are things in those disciplines that if they knew, make up what they could see as beautiful.

Sierpinski’s Triangle and Koch’s Snowflake are beautiful patterns that occur through laws governed by maths. A function that can make something so beautiful. But not everything functions in a superficial way. There is a tangibility to those patterns. There are some things that function and they do so with intangibilities.

Then there’s the wonderful thing about Antoine Griezmann. He manages to straddle the line of all the aforementioned: the functionality; its beauty; the tangible functions and its intangible ones. A man born in east-central France, with ancestry from Germany and Portugal, who moved his family to the Basque country to follow his footballing dream. A region that straddles the border of France and Spain.