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The playing career is over for Zlatan Ibrahimovic.
Now the door has been opened for a possible leadership role.
But here comes criticism that Zlatan should NOT become a leader in the Swedish national team.
It has been two weeks Zlatan Ibrahimovic announced to the whole football world that the playing career is over. It was 24 long years in world football and an absolutely unparalleled career for “Ibra”.
Zlatan’s career
The Swedish superstar has played for some of Europe’s biggest clubs and won a whopping 32 titles along the way. But now the time with “Ibracadabra” is completely over and the big question is what happens here next for the 41-year-old.
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Zlatan has already expressed that he wants to wait and see before making a decision about the future. But at home in Sweden, the speculation has already grown and there is a strong desire to bring in Swedish football’s most successful ever in a leadership role with the national team.
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Criticism of Ibra
The national team captain Jan Andersson, the blue and yellow national team management and the majority of the national team players would like to see Ibrahimovic in some kind of role with Blue Yellow in the future. But now there is also harsh criticism that it will absolutely not be like that.
“I really hope that the Swedish national team leadership will clearly say no to this”, writes a submitter with the description “Long-time football enthusiast” to the newspaper GP.
“Since European Championship 2016 in France, where Sweden made a weak effort with Zlatan Ibrahimovic as team captain, Zlatan has not made any successful contribution in the Swedish national team despite several appearances. He has an ego that, even among stars, is unparalleled. He has also disappointed his parent club Malmö FF terribly by betting on a competing club, Hammarby, for financial reasons”.
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The submitter would rather not see Zlatan Ibrahimovic in a leadership role with the Swedish national team and doubts him as a role model for the national team players.
“He too often appears with rich and dubious figures such as the late Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and Serbian tennis star and vaccine denier Novak Djokovic. Against that background, I don’t think he would make our national team a real winning team, which Janne Andersson and others have succeeded in doing,” he writes in the local newspaper.
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The soccer enthusiast still wants to highlight Zlatan as a fantastic soccer player and probably the best that Swedish soccer has produced. But despite that, he will stay far away from the Swedish national team.
“I think Zlatan Ibrahimovic is one of Sweden’s absolute best footballers of all time. But that does not automatically make him suitable as a football manager,” writes the submitter in his text.
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