Zlatan Ibrahimovic

Ibrahimovic is an unpredictable striker in the football arena, famous for numerous goals and testy character. He is also considered one of the most successful athletes of the 21st century: in honor of his name, a new word has even appeared in Swedish (which, incidentally, was adopted at the official level) - "slatner", which means "dominate".

There are many achievements in his track record. He became the 11th footballer of the year in Sweden, three times - in Italy. And in 2013, he was awarded the FIFA Prize named after Ferenc Puskas. The award is given to the player who scored the most beautiful goal of the year.

The great athlete was born in 1981 in Malmo, Sweden. The boy's parents were adherents of different religions: Father Shefic Ibrahimovic professed Islam, and yurka's mother - Christianity. The Bosnian Croat is a Bosnian Croat.

Because of these facts, the media appeared implausible information about the religion of the footballer, but he does not consider himself to be a single faith. As the forward admits, his parents did not develop a relationship: they divorced when the future football star was 2 years old, so Ibrahimovic lived with his mother, who was strict in raising his son and sometimes beat him with wooden spoons for disobedience. He often missed his father because he was having fun.

In Malmo, where he spent his childhood, there was a real ghetto: the streets were overflowing with immigrants, so fights, showdowns or theft were commonoccurrence. He was stealing things himself because he had his bike once taken away. And it was not only all sorts of little things and sweets, but also the same bikes. Therefore, as the guy admits, if it were not for football, most likely, he would have become a criminal and wandered around prisons.

The most favorite subject in school at the forward was mathematics, which was given to zlatan so easily that he did not even write down for the teacher: the decision came through logical reflectionand pictures in his head. Therefore, the athlete compares the school subject with football. However, he did not look like a diligent student: Ibrahimovic was kicked out of the Italian lesson, after which he stated that he would learn the language after becoming champion.

Ibracadabra's love of football (the player's nickname) appeared in his youth: when the boy was six years old, he was given a pair of football boots, and at the age of 8 he played in the team "Balkan" which consisted of Balkan immigrants. That's where the leadership qualities of the future forward began to show. Later, at the age of 12, the boy moved to the Malmo team, where his best childhood years were spent: first he played in the youth team for 4 years, and then moved to the main team.

In addition to football, as a child, he was fond of martial arts - he even retained a black belt in taekwondo.

The footballer has a lot of nicknames - "Ibra" and "Ibracadabra". And he is not shy about calling himself a "living legend."

Ibrahimovic impressed the fans with a brilliant game on the football pitch, so he was soon noticed by Arsene Wenger, but refused the offer of the owner of Arsenal, but since 2001 began to cooperate with the Dutch football club Ajax. Here Ibra spent 3 years, but after 6 months at the Amsterdam club was disqualified for 5 matches for aggressive behavior on the field - an elbow in the face of the opponent. But it was at Ajax that Ibrahimovic won the league title, and in 2004 he scored the best goal of the year.

After a successful start at Ajax, the footballer moved to the Italian club Juventus, who paid a lot of money for the player - 19 million. While Ibrakadabra, while at Juventus, scored goals against opponents, he was named the best foreign player in the Italian league, and the athlete was awarded the Swedish title of the best footballer of the year.

However, in Turin, the footballer's career never went up, for example, in the first season in 45 matches he managed to score only 16 goals. Despite the fact that real madrid's club offered a fee of €70 million, the Italians gave him another chance, but the game at Juventus never became a success.

In 2006, he moved to Inter FC, a team he was a boy for as a child. The new football club gave much less for the player than real Madrid offered - 25 million. In the black-and-blue uniform of the new football club, he has become a real European star. During his three years at Inter, Ibra became the top scorer of Serie A and managed to score 66 goals, making Milan internazionale the leader of Italy - in 2008-2009, three championships and two Super Cups were won.

However, Ibrahimovic has long acquired a reputation as an athlete who is not sitting still, but constantly moving forward: after the Milan team, the forward tries himself in the Spanish "Barcelona" which offered for the forward of 46 million. The Swede made his debut in the match for the Spanish Super Cup, in which he was remembered by fans with an effective pass to Messi. But it was difficult for the footballer to accept that he was not the main attacking force of the Spanish club.

He spent 1 year at Barcelona and managed to show himself as a brash player on the football field, he even had to miss 10 matches.

The departure from Barcelona was facilitated by a conflict between the athlete and his coach Pepe Guardiola. The guy admits that the envious Pepe was his worst enemy. However, FC Barcelona do not regret the appearance of such a obstinate and complex character in the team: during his time at the club with zlatan, the Italian league and two Super Cups were won, and ibra managed to score 21 goals out of 41 matches.

During his time at Barcelona, Ibrahimovic became a participant in the scandalous and piquant situation. Photographers posted photos on the Net, where he and his teammate Gerard Pique (husband of singer Shakira) gently hug each other in the car. The footballers were immediately dubbed lovers. But he did not take the questions of journalists with answers and did not choose expressions, so soon the talk about his unconventional orientation came to naught.

In 2010, Ibrahimovic became a AC Milan player who bought a contract with Barcelona because of his brilliant game. The Italians needed a strong striker, and he did his job by winning the championship and the Super Cup.

However, AC Milan had financial difficulties, and if Internazionale were fighting for the forward, the club immediately accepted PSG's offer.

And Ibrahimovic himself does not like to "stay" for a long time in the same team, so he gladly joined the national team of the French club. In the Paris national team, the 31-year-old's career went up: he broke his own record, scoring 30 goals in his first season, and also earned the title of top scorer of France. Some football fans believe that Ibra has achieved heights not only because of the desire to win, but also because of his physical qualities: the guy has an incredible flexibility of 195 kg weight of 95 kg.

Ibrahimovic is a player with an audacious character in the football arena, but this does not prevent the young man to possess high personal qualities. The forward is a philanthropist and participates in charitable actions. In 2015, at the match, he took off his jersey, and on the body of the famous striker, in addition to the famous tattoos, the surrounding saw 50 inscriptions with the names of starving children. So Ibrahimovic drew public attention to the global problem.

In addition to football, Ibra is engaged in his own business projects, and, according to him, they bring him the same pleasure as sports. And the athlete does not need additional earnings, he can easily buy a hotel in which he lives, and several houses in the district. But when his start-ups (such as the perfume and clothing line) are realized, he feels true happiness. He also signed with Nike and regularly appears on the covers of men's magazines.

In 2016, Ibrahimovic officially announced that he was leaving PSG Football Club.

At the same time, in his Instagram, the footballer announced his move to Manchester United. He successfully started his career at a new club. But in April 2017 during the game he landed unsuccessfully on his knee, he failed to finish the match. Later it became known that Ibrahimovic had a serious knee ligament injury, and this injury knocked the player out of his rut until the end of the season.

In the media, more and more people began to say that he would not take to the field at all, and that he would end his career as a footballer. But all the rumors were denied by Ibra himself, on Instagram he wrote that he is not going to give up and will come back even stronger than before. In May, he underwent surgery in America.

In August, he extended his contract at Manchester United for another year, and in November he took to the field after a long post-operative rehabilitation. But, unfortunately, the club's fans, neither the Premier League nor the Champions League with the Red Devils, he never won.

Of course, such a talented player could not but be invited to the national team of Sweden. He made his debut in 2001 and was 19 years old at the time. He has played in four European Championships and two World Cups, became the top scorer in the history of the Swedish national team - Ibrahimovic scored 62 goals. He announced the end of his career in the national team in June 2016.

The very name of zlatan is so popular that with the face of the athlete produced stamps, he was also awarded an honorary place on the Walk of Fame in Malmo. In his spare time, the athlete was engaged in his own autobiographical book"I am zlatan, which was published in 2011. And in 2015, the footballer starred in the film "Slatan: The Beginning", which tells the biography of the great forward.

In addition to the fact that Ibrahimovic is an outstanding sportsman and businessman, he is an erudite person, for example, perfectly knows 5 languages. The only strangething of Ibra is that the forward likes to address himself in the third person. It is also known that the footballer dislikes journalists and often mocks them. He is also a devoted admirer of Brazilian Ronaldo and is not shy about it.

It's not just the football career that interests him, Ibrahimovic has a family. His wife was Helena Seger, who is 11 years older than the footballer. She is an expert in economics and finance. The woman worked as a marketing manager first at Swatch and then at Fly Me.

They met back in 2002. Their meeting is not romantic. It happened in the parking lot - he put his Ferrari in front of her Mercedes, thus blocking her exit. In an interview, she admitted that when she saw his "giant nose and gold watch," her mood immediately soured.

Helena gave birth to two sons, Maximilian and Vincent. He doesn't like to share family photos on his official Instagram, posting mostly what's happening on the football field.

On March 22, 2018, the official website of Manchester United announced the termination of the contract with Swedish striker zlatan Ibrahimovic. Probably, the reason for this decision was the long absence of the player, which led to the fact that in the summer of 2017 the club signed romelu Lukaku from Everton. Ibrahimovic eventually became a free agent. He immediately received an offer from several clubs from China and the United States.

Soon the footballer announced that he would now play for the American football club Los Angeles Galaxy. But it is interesting that the salary of the forward in the new team was $1.5 million a year. That's 18 times less than he was paid in England ($27 million a year).

2002, 2004 - Dutch Champion (with Ajax)

2007, 2008, 2009 - Italian Champion (Internazionale)

2009 - UEFA Super Cup winner (with Barcelona)

2009 - Club World Cup winner (with Barcelona)

2010 - Spanish Champion (Barcelona)

2011 - Italian Champion (ac Milan)

2013, 2014, 2015, 2016 - French Champion (with Paris Saint-Germain)

2017 - UEFA Europa League winner (with Manchester United)

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