Despite his arrogance you just cannot hate Zlatan Ibrahimovic and over the years at his many, many clubs he has said some quite hilarious and some quite weird quotes. Don’t believe me? Well here they are.
1) (Answer to criticism from John Carew that Zlatan’s moves are pointless.) – “What Carew does with a football, I can do with an orange.”
2) “Arsene Wenger asked me to have a trial with Arsenal when I was 17. I turned it down. Zlatan doesn’t do auditions.”
3) “An injured Zlatan is a pretty serious thing for any team.”
Reporter – “Is your playing style Swedish or Yugoslavian?”
Zlatan – “It’s Zlatan-style.”
5) Reporter – “What would you name your son?”
Zlatan – “Zlatan Jr.”
6) When asked by a female reporter about rumours he is gay: “Come over to my house with your sister, baby, and I’ll show you who’s gay!”
7) When asked what he got his wife for her birthday – ”Nothing, she already has Zlatan.”
8) “Lionel Messi is awesome. He’s unbelievable, but I don’t really know him. We are totally different. He came to Barça as a 13-year old. He’s raised in that culture and has no problems with that ‘school’ shit. In the team, the play is all around him, pretty naturally actually. He’s brilliant, but now I had arrived [at Barca] and scored more goals than him.”
9) “At Barca, players were banned from driving their sports cars to training. I thought this was ridiculous – it was no one’s business what car I drive – so in April, before a match with Almeria, I drove my Ferrari Enzo to work. It caused a scene.”
10) When asked about Mario Balotelli’s recent tomfoolery: “I like fireworks too, but I set them off in gardens or kebab stands. I never set fire to my own house.”
Now we can’t 100% guarantee these quotes are all true but whatever the case, Zlatan is definitely a funny character. Let us know if you guys want any more articles like these and if so which kind of topic.
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