Seven years later, in collaboration with David Lagercrantz, he released autobiography "I'm Zlatan", is one of the best Nordic football players in the world.
Together with the journalist and author Mats Olsson, Zlatan Ibrahimovic goes to the book "I'm soccer" chronologically through the breakthrough career in Malmö around the millennium, and where he is today: in the Los Angeles Galaxy.
According to Expressen, the 37-year-old sold 1.5 million copies "I'm Zlatan". The Swedish striker has earned $ 75 million in autobiography, which raised his detailed description of the hard upbringing in Rosengård, the arguments with Barcelona's chief Pep Guardiola and how he watched Helena Seger.
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We have read the book in the bookshelves from Thursday, November 8th. Among other things, Zlatan shares new information about how to become a team player for Sweden.
"At first it was a big question how to handle the media in my mind. Almost every day there was something they would talk about. If there was no football there was nothing else. And that was good in that regard, with all the attention I got that people started saying I did not fit in. "He is not a team player, he is unfinished, he has to change" and so on. That's when I started to notice I was not welcome by everyone. "
with when Zlatan believes in the fall of 2003, a period when he received a lot of criticism for "stolen" a punishment from team mate Kim Källström. Zlatan did, but the perception of him as a person changed both in the media and among several of the teammates.
"If we lost a fight, it was my fault. If we did not play well, it was my fault. The message from the media was that I did not fit in. When I think about it now, I get the same nasty feeling as I received – a feeling that I was not welcome because I was Ibrahimovic. But I was young at that time and did not really understand where I felt what I felt. Now I understand, I now think differently and now I'm doing better. This is not something that goes over. I still get the feeling of not being welcome because I'm the one I am. I hear how people are talking. I hear those who say that the national team is a better team without me and my answer to them are: Be careful what you say so you do not reveal their true I. It can be difficult for you because racism is a much bigger problem than who is playing and not playing for the national team. Racism is the real problem », says Zlatan Ibrahimovic, who himself has a Bosnian father and a Croatian mother of Albanian descent.
In an interview with the French channel Canal + in January, Zlatan said that the Swedish media were not on their side because of his background.
"There is" undercover racism ", I'm 100 percent confident. Because I'm not Andersson or Svensson. If I had hated, they would defend me if I robbed a bank, he said.
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