There was nobody quite like Zlatan. Jacko9492 admires a man with a massive f***ing ego but the talent to match. That's rare.
Only Zlatan Ibrahimovic would ever have the nerve. A full-page advert in the LA Times to announce his arrival would have seemed outrageous if any other player had dared to do it, but this was Ibra and this was what he did.
Unlike many of the middle-class Swedish talents that Ibrahimovic played with and against, he had no contacts within the game, no friends in high places to accelerate his development, so he had to take the hard road that forged his character, good and bad. Conflict was never too far away from the surface with Ibrahimovic, but aside from that and his considerable ego, hisis what he will be remembered for. Indeed, the highlights reel is something to behold: The slaloming run for Ajax against Breda in 2004, the 35-yard overhead kick in a friendly against England in 2012 and the thunderbolt for PSG against Anderlecht in 2013 are just three goals that showcase what Ibra was as a player.
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