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There could be big changes in the Swedish national team.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic has quit and Janne Andersson may be allowed to leave.
“Ibra” has already said who he wants to see as the national team captain for Sweden.
He is one of Swedish football’s greatest players of all time. With as many as twelve golden balls and a record as the most goalscorer ever on the men’s side Zlatan Ibrahimovic indisputably Sweden’s best soccer player of all time.
Zlatan’s career
There are few Swedish players who can measure up to Zlatan’s merits and skills on the pitch. But now his career is completely over and “Ibra” has made his mark in the Swedish national team for the second time in his career.
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First he did it after Euro 2016 and then Ibrahimovic returned again for one last turn in the blue and yellow shirt. He also leaves a wounded Sweden who recently missed the World Cup and looks set to miss the upcoming European Championship next summer as well.
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Want to see 94 hero
Therefore, the future looks uncertain for the current national team captain Jan Andersson that hangs loose. Zlatan has previously been very clear about who he wants to see as the national team captain for Sweden’s men’s national team.
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Before when the debate about that Sven-Göran Eriksson was going to take over Blågult, it was not something that superstar Ibra wanted. But he wanted a former national team player to take over instead.
– I think you should have an old footballer who has been in the national team, who has been through it and who knows how it works, said Zlatan in an old interview with the newspaper Café.
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Zlatan Ibrahimovic then pointed out three names and what all three had in common was that they had been part of the famous WC 1994 squad. Then Sweden shocked the entire football world and took home an unforgettable World Cup bronze.
– I am bad at Swedish coaches, if we are to stay within Sweden. But you have Roland Nilsson, Jonas Thern and Stefan Rehn, said Zlatan in Café.
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