# I am Zlatan

He is known for bad attitude and self-assured air of arrogance, He is the one who fights with team-mates and is a nightmare for his managers. And yes he is also known for his brilliant football skills also, yes you guessed it right he is Zaltan .The times when football is not just a sport but a whole religion, Zlatan Ibrahimovic takes the stance of a demi-god. He is loved and adored not just for the fierce football player that he is but also for his intense personality off field.

# Early Life and childhood and stealing bikes

Just like most of successful people in the sporting world, Zlatan did not have a smooth childhood. He was born to a Bosnian father and a Croatian mother who lived in Sweden. They got divorced when he was just two years old and after that, while growing up in Rosengard, Zlatan’s life wasn’t all that rosy. He was a popular school bully and was known for thieving. Talking about stealing he says “When we needed something we went to the shop and we went to steal,”. “I had a particularly good relationship with the bikes.” One day he stole the postman’s bike.

 “Ha ha, that was a great bike, a military bike,” he remembers. Another day, he discovered that the bike he had stolen to travel the 5km to and from training belonged to his football manager. “He took it pretty well. He could have kicked me out but he laughed.”

# Career

Ibrahimovik’s great footballing career began when he started playing for Malmo FF in the year 1999 and got the team to first level from second level. He was then part of AFC Ajax and Juventus F.C,leading the teams to great victories as well. Bigger teams like the F.C.Barcelona, A.C.Milanand Paris ST.Germain traded players for Zlatan later on and most of the times that he played, he pioneered his teams to extraordinary victories. He is currently playing for Manchester United.

#The bad boy

Zaltan  is said to be a bad boy, from fighting with team meats to the opposite team, he is just a naughty boy .but this is what other thing or has portrayed a picture of him like this . But as he says “I read all the time that people think I’m arrogant,” he says “They say I am cocky, a bad character. I had that from a young age. But when they meet me, they say ‘that image doesn’t fit you.’ Where I come from you never judge a person until you meet them. I would never do that.” Says in a interview with BBC

But then who is real Zaltan?

“I always put myself second – I like to make others happy,” If you talk to the coaches I have played for, the only one that would say maybe I was a problem was Pep Guardiola. (That is) if he has something to say, which I don’t find he has.” He further explains.

# Don’t like to watch Swedish players

Although he belongs to Sweden and is the national captain but still it is surprising to hear that he Don’t like to watch Swedish players and his heroes were not Swedish too. “I did not watch Sweden, I never watched Sweden,” he says. “I loved Brazil because they were something different. They touched the ball differently, like field hockey where you drag the ball. That was magic and it felt totally different to anything I had seen before.”

# Role model and influence

Ibrahimović’s role model is Muhammad Ali. But the striker also has quite an influence from the managers he worked with and three such are Juventus coach Fabio Capello , Jose Mourinho  and Carlo Ancelotti. “he gave me my winning mentality” – and Jose Mourinho – “[he] turned me from a cat into a lion, dragged things out of me at Inter that no one had done before” and  he says about  Carlo  “the most fantastic man, almost like a father”.

# Personal like and family

Ibrahimović has two siblings and three half-siblings. His longtime partner is Helena Seger with whom he has two sons: Maximilian (born 22 September 2006) and Vincent (born 6 March 2008). He currently resides outside Manchester, although he still has a home in Malmö where he spends his summers. Ibrahimović received an honorary black belt in taekwondo; he attended classes at the Malmö Taekwondo club Enighet as a child. Ibrahimović is fluent in five languages; Swedish, Bosnian, English, Spanish and Italian

# Fashion ,style

Now this is something Zaltan is very good at. 6ft 5 inches height and a strong personality perfectly goes with a pony tail, and yes how can we forget the tattoos. In a league match against Caen on 14 February 2016, Ibrahimović took off his shirt after scoring a goal to unveil the removable tattooed names of 50 people suffering from hunger around the world, in a gesture to raise awareness for famine in accordance with the United Nations World Food Programme.

There are lots of things to  discuss about Ibrahimović but  here is all on his  birthday ,hope you have enjoyed it and here we once again wishing him a very happy birthday .

Also read : Little Known Facts about Zlatan Ibrahimovic

Reference :BBC

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