Capital: | € 180 million |
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Age: | 38 |
Born: | 10/03/1981 |
Country of origin: | Sweden |
Source of wealth: | Soccer player |
Last updated: | 2020 |
Short introduction
Zlatan Ibrahimovic – Swedish football player from Bosnia-Croatia, striker Los Angeles Galaxy Club MLS. The former Swedish national team captain. He is considered one of the most unexpected and skilled strikers of his generation. According to The Guardian, Ibrahimovic was ranked third among the best football players in the world in 2013. According to Sweden Magazine Dagens Nyheter, Ibrahimovic took second place in the list of the most talented athletes in circumstances.
Early Life
Born in Malmo in the Rusengård area in the Yugoslav Emigrant family. His father Shefik Ibrahimovic was the Bosnian Muslim Slav from Tuzla and his mother Yurizka Gravich was a Croatia of Zadar. You meet and get married in Sweden. At the age of eight, Zlatan began playing for the team of children from the Balkan club, where only immigrants from the Balkan countries were played. He was immediately accepted into an older age group.
Career
From the age of twelve he played for the youth team in Malmo and made his debut in 1999 on the first team. After spending two years at the club, he turned to Ajax in the Netherlands in the summer of 2001 for EUR 7.8 million. In Amsterdam, Zlatan won two national titles and trophies for three years. In the summer of 2004 he turned to Italy Juventus for 16 million euros. In his first season, he became Italian champions. He defended his title in the 2005/06 season, but because of the organizational problems of the two championships were canceled, after that Ibrahimovic turned to Inter for 24.8 million euros. For three years, the Scudetto won the championship three times in a row as part of “black and blue”. Because of the conflict with the head coach “Blue Garnet” Josep Guardiola, Ibrahimovic moved to Milan with a loan in the summer of 2010 and finally to Milan in 2011. In his first season after returning to Serie A, Zlatan was again the Italian champion. Because of financial problems, Milan had to sell Ibrahimovic and Thiago Silva to Paris Saint-Germain in 2012, the transaction value was 60 million euros. As part of Paris, Sweden won French four times in a row. In the summer of 2016 he moved to Manchester United as a free agent in England. As part of the Red Devils, he was the winner of the European League, the owner of the Soccer League Cup and Super Bowl of England trophy. In March 2018, Manchester United announced the termination of the contract with a soccer player, after that Ibrahimovic turned to MLS.
In 2001 he made his debut for the Swedish national team. He played in four European Championship (2004, 2008, 2012 and 2016) and two world championships (2002 and 2006). He is the most successful top scorer in the history of the Swedish national team.
Career spotlight.
In the 2004 European Championship, Sweden played a key role in the initial grid. He scored a sentence in the match against the Bulgarian national team, and a purpose against Italy, which basically ensured that Sweden reached the quarter-finals. The aim is to become one of the most spectacular goals in the tournament. However, Ibrahimovic missed a penalty in the quarter-final match against the Dutch national team and sent a ball higher than the goal, preventing Sweden move. In the European Championship Qualification 2016, he was the team captain. On September 8, 2014 Ibrahimovic played the 100th game for the Swedish national team, this happened in the match against the Austrian national team (1-1). In the selection, the Swedish national team took 3rd place in Group G and went to off-play. On November 14, Ibrahimovic scored the winning goal in the first off-play match against the Danish national team (2-1). Three days later, he scored in the second leg, who fulfilled the requirements of the Swedish national team for the 2016 European Football Championship. In ten rounds of qualified he scored eleven goals and became the second goal scorer after Poland International Robert Lewandowski.
Married to Swedish actress and the Helene Segger model (* 25.08.1970), aged 11 years older than Zlatan. The couple had two sons – Maximilian (born September 22, 2006) and Vincent (born March 6, 2008). In the autumn of 2016, Zlatan sent his son to the “Red Devils” academy. At present living in Paris, spending the summer at his summer home in Malmo. Ibrahimovic has a black belt in taekwondo; From childhood he studied at Malmo Taekwondo Club – “Unity”. Zlatan speaks five languages: Sweden, Bosnia, England, Spain and Italy. In an interview with Eurosport, Ibrahimovic said that the role model was Mohammed Ali: “Mohammed Ali is my role model, both in sports and outside …” Ibrahimovic committed to Catholicism.
Famous quotes
+ If you want to stop me, you have to kill me.
+ We are looking for a house. But if we don’t find anything, my Lord, I’ll buy l.
+ When asked whether he is human or must be worshiped: “Zlatan is only human.