Zlatan Ibrahimovic

Zlatan Ibrahimovic was born on October 3, 1981, in Malmö, Sweden. He is a Swedish professional footballer who plays as a striker for French club Paris Saint-Germain and the Sweden national team for which he is captain.

He played for clubs in Sweden, the Netherlands, Italy and Spain, nabbing multiple scoring titles while leading his teams to eight consecutive league championships. One of the sport’s most polarizing figures, Ibrahimovic released a bestselling autobiography in 2011.

Ibrahimović began his career at Malmö FF in the late 1990s before being signed by Ajax, where he made a name for himself. He signed for Juventus and excelled in Serie A in a strike partnership with David Trezeguet. In 2006, he signed for rival side Inter Milan and was named to the UEFA Team of the Year in both 2007 and 2009. In addition, Ibrahimović would finish as the league’s top scorer in 2008–09 and win three straight Scudetti. In the summer of 2009, he transferred to Barcelona, before moving back to Serie A football the following season, joining A.C. Milan in a deal that made him one of the highest-paid players in the world. He won another Scudetto with Milan in the 2010–2011 season. He joined Paris Saint-Germain in July 2012. During his four-season stay at PSG, Ibrahimović won four consecutive Ligue 1 titles, three Coupes de la Ligue, two Coupes de France and was the top scorer in Ligue 1 for three seasons. In October 2015, he became PSG’s all time leading goalscorer. He finished his PSG career with 156 goals in 180 competitive matches.

His spectacular bicycle kick for Sweden against England won the 2013 FIFA Puskás Award for Goal of the Year. Off the field, he is known for his brash persona and outspoken comments, in addition to referring to himself in the third person. In December 2013, Ibrahimović was ranked by The Guardian as the third-best player in the world, behind only Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo. In December 2014, the Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter named him the second-greatest Swedish sportsperson of all time, after tennis player Björn Borg.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic retired from football after AC Milan's victory over Verona. He played a pivotal role in the team's resurgence to the top of Italian football. Zlatan Ibrahimovic surprisingly retired from football after AC Milan's 3-1 victory over Verona, announcing his decision during an on-pitch ceremony.

Some Lesser Known Facts About Zlatan Ibrahimović

1. Zlatan commenced playing soccer at the age of six.
2. He is considered one of the best strikers in the World, he has scored more than 60 goals for his national team Sweden and overall in 681 appearance, he scored 396 goals in his career.
3. Zlatan Ibrahimović’s Father was Muslim who immigrated to Sweden from Bosnia and met his mother in Sweden who was catholic. Even she immigrated to Sweden from Croatia.
4. Zlatan was about to quit the soccer at the age of 15, when he decided to work at the docs of Malmö. But his coach advised him not to do so.
5. He is a greatest fan of Brazilian star footballer Ronaldo.
6. He reckons that Muhammad Ali, American Boxer is a role model of him.
7. Ibrahimović is fluent in five languages; Swedish, Bosnian, English, Spanish and Italian.
8. He endorsed Nike in an advertisement alongside Lionel Messi, Christiano Ronaldo and Wayne Rooney.
9. In 2014, he donated US $51,000 to dispatch Swedish national football team for the intellectually disabled to the INAS World Football Championships in Brazil.
10. In February 2015, in the match against Caen, Zlatan took off his shirt to unveil the removable tattooed names of 50 people suffering from starvation around the World.
11. Ibrahimović has been involved in several violent incidents with some teammates like Rafael van der Vaart,  Mido, Oguchi Onyewu and with coach  Pep Guardiola, and many other players.
12. Ibrahimović has remained in news for dating girls. Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Maria Olhage were engaged for 8 months, they dated each other for one year before being engaged in 2001. Later couple seperated in 2002. For long time he has been living in relationship with Helena Seger (2001-Present). Couple has two children also.