It’s human. Before Milan, Zlatan Ibrahimovic, could not help but cry when asked about his family’s reaction at his first press conference, when he returned with the Swedish national team four years later.
“I have two little ones at home kicking the ball, my wife asks me to tell them to stop, but I say no, we can buy new things if they break. How did you get me back to Sweden? I had it. Vincent here, who really cried when I left. He cried when I left him. I miss them, they are happy for me and now they are fine, “said” Ibra “from Stockholm, who had to to take a short break and wipe away her tears.
The 39-year-old Swedish star is the big news on the list to face the first two qualifying commitments for Qatar 2022 against Georgia and Kosovo and friends against Estonia.
Ibra retired from the Swedish national team after Euro 2016, but suggested last autumn that he wants to return and met with the Swedish coach, Jan ‘Janne’ Andersson, which he had criticized several times in the past for not including players of foreign origin.
“When I asked, they were all positive. When it comes to playing for your country, no one opposes. It’s just a matter of giving up or not,” the striker said of the closest people’s reaction to a possible return with Sweden.
As he had done a few days ago in an interview broadcast by Swedish Federation, Ibrahimovic reiterated that he returns for his performance in Milan, not by name.
“I’m here because I deserve it, what I did before doesn’t matter at all,” said the Swedish star, who was proud and assured that she was there to “help” and not “ask” for anything.
The best scorer of all time for the Swedish national team, with 62 goals in 116 games, He confessed that if he had said “no” to return, he would have regretted within a year and stressed that the important thing is “to continue doing what you love as much as you can.”
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