Ibramihovic: “The best goal against England. Juve? Moggi the top and we are waiting on capital gains. Sanremo? With Fiorello little chemistry”
Zlatan Ibrahimovic is told in a long interview on Corriere della Sera. The attacker of the Milan retraces his childhood in the ghetto of Malmoe and unveils some interesting anecdotes that are not necessarily about football. For example, the multiracial Ibrahimovic in what language do you think: “On the pitch, never in Swedish: it’s too kind a language, and on the pitch you need malice. So I think in Slavic. Sometimes in English and in Italian”.
The Swedish bomber then reveals his practically absent spiritual side: “I believe in God? Not only in myself. When you are dead you are dead”. Ibrahimovic but he seems to be rather supercious: “I don’t like it when they say ‘good luck’. I don’t need it. I decide how it should go.” A further confirmation comes from the story of the clash he had with Lukaku in the derby of Italian Cup: “I grew up in the Malmoe ghetto, and when someone comes under me with his head down, I put him in his place. So I hit him in his weak point: the rituals of the mother. And he has lost control. a doubt. – continues the attacker – We lost that derby. I was sent off. Then I got injured. A lot of wrong things happened. Do you want to see that the Lukaku ritual really did it to me? So I asked to believing friends to pray for me. I have to settle the bill with him too. I hope to meet him soon “.
On childhood: “I was a child who has always suffered. As soon as I was born, the nurse made me fall from a meter in height. I suffered all my life. At school I was different: the others were blond with clear eyes and thin nose, me dark, brown, with a big nose. I spoke differently to them, I moved differently from them. My teammates’ parents petitioned to kick me out of the team. I was always hated. And in the beginning. I reacted badly “.
About growing up as a man and a footballer: “I learned to transform suffering, and even hatred, into strength. Gasoline. If I am happy, I play well. But if I am angry, hurt, in pain, I play better. From a stage that loves me, I take energy. But from a stadium that hates me, I take a lot more. The racist insults? Last time it happened in Rome. For the exultation after a goal. Fifty thousand people yelled at me as a gypsy, and the referee warned me “.
The best goal? “Perhaps the overhead kick from thirty meters, in the national team, against England. The English have always despised me, they said that I never scored against them …”.
About the family: “I remember when Vincent from Stockholm said to me: ‘Dad, I miss you’. A stab. I wanted to give up everything, even Milan, and go back to him. If they hated football? birds. Now they both play soccer. They went to the audition with their mother’s name, Seger. They took them. Maxi chose to be called Ibrahimovic. Vincent has yet to decide. “
On Juventus: “In the match I was looking for the circus act, because I had a bigger ego than all the Swedes put together. Capello taught me to watch the goal. And he slaughtered me, all the time. A very tough man. The first day he did as well. If I didn’t exist. Moggi? He was the top with me. The revoked championships? We won them, and nobody can take them away. Nobody can wipe away the sweat, the fatigue, the suffering, the injuries, the goals. they say that in my career I have won eleven league titles, I correct them: there are thirteen. Moggi was someone who inspired awe, even if not to me “.
On the capital gains investigation: “It is only at the beginning, it is too early to judge. I can tell you that I am very careful about taxes, budgets, money, I pay well to the people who take care of them”.
On Berlusconi: “Too nice. One Sunday I’m in the stands at San Siro, he makes me sit next to him. Then he says to me: ‘Ibra, would you mind climbing a seat? A very important person is coming.’ that a politician is coming. Instead a beautiful woman arrives, wearing impressive heels. Berlusconi winks at me: ‘Very important person …’. And maybe for him she really was “.
About Sanremo: “I was nervous. Amadeus let me free to be myself. ‘What should I do?’ I asked him. And he: “Do Zlatan. You drive, I’ll follow you.” Fiorello? There was less chemistry. He was pilot number 1, number 2, number 3; then I and Ama would come. He’s good, but he talks too fast, I didn’t understand a word “.
About Materazzi: “He came in from behind to hurt; and we players understand immediately when someone comes in to hurt or simply enters hard, like Chiellini, like Stam, like Maldini. I had an open account with him for years. I paid it off in a derby. He enters with his feet up, I jump, I avoid him, and hit him with an elbow to the temple. Pippo Inzaghi commented: “The best derby of my life: 1-0, goal from Ibra, Materazzi in hospital”. “.
Ronaldo or Messi? “Both are very strong. I say Messi also because we played together. Lewandowski deserved the Ballon d’Or this year.”
About Guardiola: “He never understood me. He wanted to plan everything I had to do. I had an instinctive gesture, but then I thought about what Guardiola wanted, and I changed. So I thought double. Guardiola does not like personality players. I had become a player. problem; and since he couldn’t solve it, I solved it by leaving “.
On the return to Milan: “It was done with Napoli; but then De Laurentiis chased Ancelotti out. So I asked Mino: which team is worse off, which I can change? He replied: yesterday Milan lost 5-0 in Bergamo. So it’s decided, I said: let’s go to Milan. It’s a club I know, a city I like. “
About Mbappé: “It’s true I told him to leave PSG. Mbappé needs a more structured environment, like that of Real Madrid. But then I told the PSG president not to sell him.”
About Donnarumma: “Gigio is a great goalkeeper. If they had given him what he asked for, he would have stayed at Milan. Now he has to make a mess to be a PSG starter. The South Americans don’t have to impose that other player. Gigio is stronger.”
About Gattuso? “Sure. With Rino we loaded each other up. He called me ‘ugly Slav’, I put him upside down in the garbage cans”.
On the future of coach: “I don’t know, it’s so stressful … I’ll do something capable of giving me adrenaline. But as long as I hold up, I’ll be the center forward. I want to play for the Scudetto until the last day. And go to the World Cup in Qatar.”
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