Zlatan Ibrahimovic Net Worth

Short introduction

Zlatan Ibrahimovic – Swedish soccer player from Bosnia-Croatia, Los Angeles Galaxy Club MLS striker. Former Swedish national team captain. He is considered one of the most unexpected and skilled strikers of his generation. According to The Guardian, Ibrahimovic was ranked third among the best football players in the world in 2013. According to Sweden Magazine Dagens Nyheter, Ibrahimovic took second place in the list of the most talented athletes in the state of all time.

Early life

Born in Malmö in the Rusengård area in the Yugoslav Emigrant family. His father Shefik Ibrahimovic was Slav Muslim Bosnia from Tuzla and his mother Yurizka Gravich was a Croatia of Zadar. You meet and get married in Sweden. At the age of eight, Zlatan began playing for the children’s team from the Balkan club, where only immigrants from the Balkan countries were played. He was immediately accepted into the older age group.

Career

From the age of twelve he played for the youth team in Malmo and made his debut in 1999 on the first team. After spending two years at the club, he turned to Ajax in the Netherlands in the summer of 2001 for EUR 7.8 million. In Amsterdam, Zlatan won two national titles and trophies for three years. In the summer of 2004 he turned to Juventus Italian for 16 million euros. In his first season, he became Italian champion. He defended his title in the 2005/06 season, but because of the organizational problems of the two championships were canceled, after which Ibrahimovic turned to Inter for 24.8 million euros. For three years, the Scudetto won the championship three times in a row as part of “black and blue”. Because of the conflict with the head coach “Blue Garnet” Josep Guardaola, Ibrahimovic moved to Milan with a loan in the summer of 2010 and finally to Milan in 2011. In his first season after returning to Serie A, Zlatan again the Italian champion. Because of financial problems, Milan had to sell Ibrahimovic and Thiago Silva to Paris Saint-Germain in 2012, the transaction value was 60 million euros. As part of Paris, Sweden won France four times in a row. In the summer of 2016 he moved to Manchester United as a free agent in England. As part of the Red Devils, he was the winner of the European League, the owner of the Soccer League Cup trophy and the Super Bowl of England. In March 2018, Manchester United announced the termination of the contract with a soccer player, after that Ibrahimovic turned to MLS.

In 2001 he made his debut for the Swedish national team. He played in four European Championship (2004, 2008, 2012 and 2016) and two world championships (2002 and 2006). He is the most successful top scorer in the history of the Swedish national team.

Career highlights

In the 2004 European Championship, Sweden played an important role in the initial network. He scored a sentence in the match against the Bulgarian national team, and a goal against Italy, which basically ensured that Sweden reached the quarter-finals. The aim is to become one of the most spectacular goals in the tournament. However, Ibrahimovic missed a penalty in the quarter-final match against the Dutch national team and sent balls higher than the goal, preventing Sweden move. In the 2016 European Championship qualification, he was the captain of the team. On September 8, 2014 Ibrahimovic played the 100th game for the Swedish national team, this happened in the match against the Austrian national team (1-1). In the selection, the Swedish national team took 3rd place in Group G and went outside. On November 14, Ibrahimovic scored the winning goal in the first off-play match against the Danish national team (2-1). Three days later, he scored in the second leg, who fulfilled the requirements of the Swedish national team for the 2016 European Football Championship. In ten rounds of qualified he scored eleven goals and became the second goal scorer after Poland International Robert Lewandowski.

Married Swedish actress and Helene Seger model (* 25.08.1970), aged 11 years older than Zlatan. The couple has two sons – Maximilian (born September 22, 2006) and Vincent (born March 6, 2008). In the fall of 2016, Zlatan sent his son to the “Red Devils” academy. Now live in Paris, spend the summer at his summer home in Malmo. Ibrahimovic has a black belt in Taekwondo; From childhood he studied at Malmo Taekwondo Club – “Unity”. Zlatan speaks five languages: Sweden, Bosnia, England, Spain and Italy. In an interview with Eurosport, Ibrahimovic said that the role model was Mohammed Ali: “Mohammed Ali is my role model, both in sports and outside …” Ibrahimovic committed to Catholicism.