The Spaniard has bizarrely suggested that he first came up with a story made famous by Suzanne Collins and turned into Hollywood blockbusters <\/p>\n
Javi Martinez is a World Cup champion and multiple Bundesliga title winner, but the Bayern Munich man also claims to have come up with the concept for \u2018The Hunger Games\u2019.<\/p>\n
Suzanne Collins is the published author of a series of books which have been turned into Hollywood blockbusters.<\/p>\n
The first instalment of her trilogy was released in 2008, with subsequent offerings hitting the shelves in 2009 and 2010.<\/p>\n
Article continues below<\/span> <\/p>\n Juve on alert: Exiled Icardi may have already played his final game for Inter Sarri vindicated for dropping Kepa as Chelsea & Pedro impress in Spurs win Magnificent Mane takes centre stage as league leaders Liverpool put on a five-star show Lukaku sends reminder that his Man Utd career is far from over <\/p>\n \u2018The Hunger Games\u2019 focuses on a futuristic world in which the inhabitants of impoverished \u2018districts\u2019 fight for survival in a compulsory televised battle royale.<\/p>\n By the time the books became movies in 2012, over 26 million copies had been sold.<\/p>\n Bayern star Martinez claims he missed out on a piece of that profit come up with a similar idea in his youth.<\/p>\n The 30-year-old Spain international told German magazine Socrates <\/em> : \u201cWriting is a great pleasure for me, even as a teenager I started to write a book.<\/p>\n \u201cAnd believe it or not, the plot was pretty much the same as ‘The Hunger Games’.\u201d<\/p>\n When Collins\u2019 version of events hit the big screen, Martinez admits he found it difficult to watch.<\/p>\n He added: \u201cThat was strange, I was sitting in the cinema and thought: \u2018It does not exist, that’s my idea, which I had years ago, the creators must have stolen my computer\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n While he may have missed an opportunity when it comes to \u2018The Hunger Games\u2019 franchise, Martinez remains eager to put his thoughts down on paper.<\/p>\n He continues to take great pleasure from writing and is grateful to be in the privileged position of being able to offer others an insight into the world of professional football.<\/p>\n \u201cI am very pleased.\u00a0I love to write,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n \u201cThe idea of bringing readers closer to the life of a footballer from a very personal perspective fascinates me.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cThere are many things that outsiders cannot understand or know.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cI want to give them insights that would otherwise be withheld from them.\u201d<\/p>\n While he works on such projects away from the field, Bayern Martinez are looking to chase down more major honours on it.<\/p>\n They sit seven points adrift of leaders Borussia Dortmund in the Bundesliga at but have time to bridge that gap while also pursuing Champions League glory \u2013 with Liverpool set to provide their next European opposition in the round of 16 .<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Spaniard has bizarrely suggested that he first came up with a story made famous by Suzanne Collins and turned into Hollywood blockbusters Javi Martinez is a World Cup champion and multiple Bundesliga title winner, but the Bayern Munich man also claims to have come up with the concept for \u2018The Hunger Games\u2019. Suzanne Collins…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-football-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Editors' Picks<\/h3>\n