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Griezmann welcomes third child on same day as siblings

France's Antoine Griezmann carries his crying daughter after his team won the final match between France and Croatia at the 2018 soccer World Cup in the Luzhniki Stadium in Moscow, Russia, Sunday, July 15, 2018. (AP)

Barcelona forward Antoine Griezmann has been spared having to remember three different dates to mark the birthdays of each of his three children -- as they were all born on April 8.

When the French World Cup winner confirmed on social media that his wife Erika Choperena had given birth to a baby daughter on Thursday, remarkably it was on the same date as their elder children, Mia (born in 2016) and Amaro (born in 2019).

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