Ibrahimovic: “I play until I see someone better”

Pawing waiting to take the field and earn the World Cup, Zlatan Ibrahimovic. On March 29, he will challenge Poland to help his Sweden win from the playoffs, as already happened – unfortunately for Italy – in 2017. Meanwhile, he entrusts his reflections to the Uefa website in an interview released during his visit to Ferrari in Maranello, suspended between the present and the future. “The future has yet to be written, I don’t make plans and let’s see what happens – assures Ibra -. I don’t intend to withdraw and then say that I could have continued, because I would regret it for the rest of my life. I want to play for as long as possible. the reality is that I will play until I see someone better than me, so I play again … I know that one day I will stop and that I will no longer have that adrenaline. Every day we wake up, we prepare, we train, we eat and we rest. The next day is the same. You do these things for 20 years and you get adrenaline in return. When you suddenly stop, everything is missing, so you have to start from scratch and start something new. “

Happy

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Honey words for Milan: “I play for the Rossoneri with a lot of emotion because Milan is a club that has given me happiness, it has given me a lot and I think I have spent more years here than in all the clubs I have represented. Now I don’t I’m chasing the ball, but vice versa … Is there a lot of competition in the team? No, there are no players with a big ego in Milan today. It was nice to be back in the Champions League with this shirt. qualification for a couple of years, everyone was very happy to be back in such a prestigious competition. ” The Champions League remains the goal to dream, one of the last goals to be cut: “It’s a fantastic tournament. I scored some goals that I liked a lot and I had the opportunity to face the best teams and best players in Europe. Do I feel like I’ve never won it? In two ways: winning it would be fantastic, not winning it wouldn’t change me as a player. ed) does not win everything “.

Memories

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Regarding his way of being, Ibra has clear ideas: “Whatever happens to me, I will always be the same and I will not change. Either like me or not, but I was not born to convince people”. With the accumulated experience, however, it feels like giving some advice to younger people: “Surrounding yourself with positive people, with positive energy, helps a lot because it makes things easier. When you have negative people around you, they drag you down. It is. like they don’t want you to succeed. So my advice is, ‘It’s easy and anything is possible, but it’s up to you.’ Finally, some childhood memories, recalling the years that formed the first Zlatan: “I grew up in Malmoe, in a small neighborhood called Rosengard, and I stayed there until I was 17. I was very lively. called ‘ghetto’, but it was a paradise because I had everything I wanted. I had friends, I had fun. We had football, which made people happy and was cheap, indeed it was free. A pair of shoes was enough, but you could also playing without it. From there it was a crescendo. ” Then came the first contract with Malmoe: “When I signed my first contract, suddenly I started earning money doing what I liked. The money didn’t make me happy, but it made things easier. I used to walk a lot to go. to train, or I stole a bike (I know it’s not good, but we all do stupid); then I managed to get my driving license and the car “. As a child he had an important idol: “My father often showed me Muhammad Ali on television. I liked that character. He was a champion in words but he was also a champion in the ring. He did not speak because he was presumptuous, but because he was sure of himself; I’m like that too. For me the best player in history is Ronaldo ‘the Phenomenon’. I followed him and admired him. He did things that everyone wanted to do, things that had never been seen before, and everyone has tried to copy it. When we went to play in the park with friends, we all tried to do the same things. Then I really met him and played against him – unfortunately never with him – and suddenly everything that was unreal became real “.