He never cared about numbers. They leave him coldly indifferent, because he knows who he is, what he has achieved in huge career his and has nothing to prove to anyone. That's why he completely ignores those who (dare to) challenge him, because he never even played in a final Champions League, despite the fact that at the same time he has won championships (and in fact many) in almost all the teams in which he played.
Ο Zlatan Ibrahimovic is exactly that. Zlatan, Imbra, "Ibracadabra", the ultimate football idol, the player who stands out for his diversity, his huge talent, his incredible goals and his explosive character.
Still, even if he doesn't care about numbers, this weekend can be particular for her 39-year-old Swedish striker Milan. In a few hours, against Crotone, Ibrahimovic can arrive the 500 goals at club level. A number that only fits legends like Z-L-A-T-A-N. A name, six letters and an equal number of stories - aspects of life and his (unique) self.
The latter with Romelou Loukakou it was just another link in the chain. In Ajax, threatened the other (young) star of the team, Rafael van der Faart to break his legs because he felt she had betrayed him with his behavior. THE Mindo threw a pair of scissors at him, which Zlatan miraculously avoided. In Barcelona, he came close to beating Pep Guardiola because he thought that he was reducing him as a personality, in training he has played with his teammates a few times, on the pitch there are… spoons in opponents, while in France he did not hesitate to put them all , when he felt that the PSG were wronged ("France is a country that does not deserve Paris"). Explosive character, but authentic, because that's how he grew up and became a man. "You can get a child out of the ghetto, but never the ghetto through the child" reminds meaningfully.
ATAKES. Unique and endless. He gives them generously and he could write an anthology only with them. "Zlatan does not audition" she had told him Arsene Wenger, when asked to do a trial in Arsenal. He said "no" and went to Ajax. "Only God knows who will pass. You talk to him " he told a reporter who asked him who would qualify for the World Cup qualifier between Sweden and Portugal. Eventually, God bowed to him Cristiano Ronaldo. "I did not take any presents from her. He already has Zlatan " he had answered when asked what gift he got on his partner's birthday and the mother of his two boys, Elena Seger. Unique…
In eight months, he will celebrate his 40th birthday, but it seems a given that even then he will continue to play football and, in fact, at the highest level. "I am just like Benjamin Button. I was born old and I will die young " he said last September, after another of his football performances. For Zlatan, age is just a number. And, like the character who uniquely played in the cinema o Brad Pitt, as he gets older, he gives the impression that he is getting better and, above all, more deadly towards the opponent's goal. This year, in fact, his goals have one sacred purpose: To lead the sleeping giant for a decade, the Milan, again at the top of Serie A. "If I had played in Milan since the beginning of the season last year, we would have won the league," he said at an unsuspecting time. Who dares to challenge him when… threatens that "I will play at the same level in my 50s"; And, of course, he says it because he believes it…
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