Zlatan Ibrahimović

Zlatan Ibrahimović born 3 October 1981 is a Swedish professional footballer who plays as a striker for Serie A club AC Milan and the Sweden national team Ibrahimović is renowned for his acrobatic strikes and volleys powerful longrange shots and excellent technique and ball control He is regarded as one of the greatest strikers of all time and is one of the most decorated active footballers in the world having won 34 trophies in his career He has scored over 570 career goals including more than 500 club goals and has scored in each of the last four decades Ibrahimović began his career at Malmö FF in 1999 and signed for Ajax two years later where he gained a reputation as one of the most promising forwards in Europe He departed two years later to sign for Juventus before joining domestic rivals Inter Milan in 2006 where he won three consecutive Serie A titles In the summer of 2009 he moved to Barcelona in one of the worlds most expensive transfers After just one season he returned to Italy having signed for Inters rival Milan With them he won the Serie A title in his debut season In 2012 Ibrahimović joined Paris SaintGermain leading them to their first Ligue 1 title in 19 years and soon establishing himself as a leading figure in their dominance of French football During his fourseason stay in France he won four consecutive Ligue 1 titles was the top scorer in Ligue 1 for three seasons and became PSGs alltime leading goalscorer at the time In 2016 he joined Manchester United on a free transfer and won his first European honour in his debut season Ibrahimović joined American club LA Galaxy in 2018 and rejoined Milan in 2020 winning his fifth Serie A title in 2022 Ibrahimović is one of eleven players to have made 100 or more appearances for the Swedish national team over a 20year international career He is the countrys alltime leading goalscorer with 62 goals He represented Sweden at the 2002 and 2006 FIFA World Cups as well as the 2004 2008 2012 and 2016 UEFA European Championships He has been awarded Guldbollen the Golden Ball given to the Swedish player of the year a record 12 times including 10 consecutive times from 2007 to 2016 Ibrahimovićs 35yard bicycle kick goal for Sweden against England won the 2013 FIFA Puskás Award and is often considered one of the best goals of all time Ibrahimović was named in the FIFA FIFPro World XI in 2013 and the UEFA Team of the Year in 2007 2009 2013 and 2014 He finished at a peak of fourth for the FIFA Ballon dOr in 2013 In 2015 UEFA ranked him as the best player ever not to have won the UEFA Champions League while in 2019 FourFourTwo magazine named him the thirdgreatest player never to win the competition In December 2014 Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter ranked him the secondgreatest Swedish sportsperson ever after tennis player Björn Borg Off the field Ibrahimović is known for his brash persona and outspoken comments in addition to referring to himself in the third person Source Article Zlatan Ibrahimović from Wikipedia in English licensed under CCBYSA 30