Januari 21, 2012

Zlatan Ibrahimovic is a Striker from AC Milan

Name: Zlatan Ibrahimovic
Nationality: Swedish
Date and Place of Birth: October 3, 1981 in Malmo, Sweden
Position: Striker
Current Club: AC Milan (Serie A) on loan from Barcelona
Previous Clubs: Malmo (1996-2001), Ajax (2001-2004), Juventus (2004-2006), Inter Milan (2006-2009), Barcelona (2009-2010) International Career: 2001 to present

Ibrahimovic was born to a Bosnian father and Croatian mother, along with three sisters and two brothers. He started playing football when he was 6, featuring for local junior clubs Malmo BI and FBK Balkan. When playing for hometown club Malmo FF, he considered quitting the game at 15 in favor of working at the docks but was talked out of it by his manager. The striker made his debut for the Swedish club in 1999 and experienced relegation in his first season. But he helped the club win promotion back to the top league at the first time of asking and his performances were beginning to attract admiring glances from clubs around Europe. It was Ajax who signed him in July 2001 for US$6.6 million. Ibrahimovic initially struggled to make the team, but this changed with the arrival of Ronald Koeman as manager. The striker helped Ajax win the title in his debut season with six goals in 26 league appearances. In his final season at the Amsterdam Arena, he scored a stunning goal against NAC Breda and his 13 strikes in 23 matches helped the club to a second title in three seasons. After 32 league goals for the Dutch outfit, he was on his way again. Italian giants Juventus signed Ibrahimovic in the summer of 2004 for US$20 million and he was an instant revelation, scoring 16 times. He made less of an impact the following season but Juventus thought they had won the league for the second time since his arrival. However, the club was stripped of both titles for their part in a corruption scandal. As a further punishment Juventus were relegated to the division below. The Swede did not want to play in the Italian second division, so after a tally of 23 league goals in two seasons, Inter Milan signed him for US$32 million in 2006. Inter have been the most successful club in Italy in the second half of the decade and Ibrahimovic contributed to this in no small way. His 57 league goals helped the Nerazzurri win the Serie A title in each of the three seasons he was there. An amazing back-heeled effort against Bologna in his final season was the highlight of a spectacular 2008-09 campaign which saw him finish as the league's top scorer with 25 goals. Barcelona was just around the corner.

Ibra scored on his debut against Sporting Gijon league, and in each of the next three games, setting a record as a Barcelona player just to clean the opening four league games this season. However, after initially impressive, Ibrahimovic's form dropped as he rarely produced types of performances to justify the exorbitant prices. Toward the end of the season, the striker found himself increasingly left out of the team with Josep Guardiola, who will then claim the Swedish rarely spoke to him in his final months at the club. In the Champions League semi-final first leg against Inter's former club, he ran the distance is less famous than his goalkeeper Victor Valdes, supplying ammunition to those accused of laziness. Ibra stay helped Barca to a second straight league title with 16 goals. Champions League strikes four, including two important efforts against Arsenal in the quarter-finals, added to the other in the Copa del Rey, meant that he finished the season with 21 goals, but that's not enough to keep him at the club.

Ibra joined Milan on loan in the summer of 2010 and he immediately hit stride. 14 goals helped the Rossoneri won their first title since 2004 when he quickly became an integral part of the team's Massimiliano Allegri.

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