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Zlatan Ibrahimovic is Swedish football’s greatest ever.
Such a fantastic playing career will be the pinnacle for future Swedish professionals.
And we will never forget when a young Zlatan selected his dream eleven from the world’s best footballers.
Can’t get enough of it Zlatan Ibrahimovic and his great success as a football player. He is Swedish football’s greatest ever with a whopping twelve golden balls and the most goals for the Swedish men’s national team of all time.
Zlatan’s career
Zlatan has reaped great success around Europe for some of the world’s biggest club brands such as Ajax, Juventus, Inter, Barcelona, Milan, PSG and Manchester United. He is a living legend of a lifetime and everything started at home in little Rosengård.
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That’s why it was so nice when “Ibra” returned home again before the WC 2006. At the time he was 24 years old and a celebrated star player in the top club Juventus.
– It’s fun, this is where you grew up and it’s very special to come home, you always feel welcome. You see how big you are and how much it means. It is on this farm that I played most of my football as a youth. I try to give back as much as I can, says Zlatan in an old interview with the magazine Goal.
Incredible Dream Eleven
At home on the farm with his friends, Zlatan learned how to dribble and other skills that would take him to the absolute top of the world in soccer.
– I have always tried to play with the ball, to do that little bit extra. I think you learn the most when it comes to technique precisely when you compare yourself and compete with your friends on plans like the one that is out here now. It often happened that you tried a fancy or something that you then took with you to the club team and tried to redo in match context. To make the most of it. It has become one of my best qualities, he says as a young man in the interview.
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Zlatan also gives tips to all children and young people who want to reach as far as him. Then he says important words that are just as important today, 18 years later.
– To believe in yourself and have a strong will. They should have fun playing and not feel forced. Even if they face setbacks while playing. I mean if you’re 20 years old and haven’t turned pro, there’s nothing that says you can’t turn pro when you’re 25. I played in the youth national team only from the time I was 17, many others were already in the 13-14 year olds. But there were many who were great talents at 15, who then never got anywhere. I was not the great talent then, but developed later. What I mean is that you have to keep fighting and believe in yourself.
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In addition, Ibrahimovic gets to take out his absolute dream eleven of footballers who were active then, i.e. in 2006. And it is an awfully good starting eleven that a 24-year-old Zlatan builds together with a lot of big names.
Zlatan’s dream team:
Gianluigi Buffon
Cafu
Fabio Cannavaro
Gianluca Zambrotta
Clarence Seedorf
Zinedine Zidane
Claude Makelele
Pavel Nedved
Ronaldinho
Ronaldo
Thierry Henry
Coach: Fabio Capello
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