10 things you probably did not know about Zlatan Ibrahimovic

1)Is black belt in taekwondo

In addition to football, Zlatan has a great passion for taekwondo. He practiced as a child and is so good in which he got his black belt in the discipline. In fact, he was about to leave football to practice this sport, but his coaches at Malmö convinced him to continue playing football even though he was very short. Then at age 16 he stretched and the rest is history. Ibrahimovic himself, as modest as usual, has said that had he dedicated himself to an individual sport he would have won several Olympic medals. His talent in taekwondo is the reason for his great ability to score the acrobatic goals that have become his trademark.

2)An illegal hobby.

When he was a boy, he was robbed of a bicycle that he was very fond of and which he used to move to training. As a result, he became a bicycle and car thief, because nobody steals from Zlatan. Ibrahimovic himself has said he did this with his friends because of the adrenaline that caused them. Once, already playing in Malmö, he went to training on a stolen bicycle. And he decided to borrow a different one to go back home. This bike turned out to belong to the second coach of the club who did not do anything funny Zlatan's pastime.

3)Zlatan the prophet.

When Ibra was 16 years old and was in school, he was sent to write a rehearsal where he was to explain where he looked in 5 years. The Swede wrote: "I will be a professional soccer player in Italy and I will win a lot of money". Zlatan was only wrong for a year, because 6 years later he was signing his contract with Juventus as the star signing of the Italian team.

4)He could play in Arsenal.

While playing in Malmö, several Arsenal scouts went to see him and he was invited to London. They showed him all the facilities of the club and even gave him an Arsenal shirt with his name and number '9'. Ibra was already looking forward to playing in the English club, but when Arsene Wenger called him to his office and asked him to do some tests at the club to see how good he was. Zlatan, as subtle as ever, replied: "Zlatan Ibrahimovic does not test", and left. The Swede finished signing with Ajax and the rest is history.

5)It has its own search engine on the internet.

A Swedish company designed a Google-style search engine only for Ibrahimovic. The page is called Zlaaatan.com and there you can find everything related to the Swedish "god", since it only yields results related to the footballer. For example, if we search for "Ferrari", we will find all the information related to Ferraris de Ibra. If you do not believe me, enter yourselves and check it out.

6)The record man.

Zlatan is an impressive footballer and this has led him to obtain a lot of records throughout his prolific career. For example, he has the unparalleled record of winning 8 consecutive leagues on different teams. This impressive streak started when he won the league with Ajax (2004), then repeating it with Juventus (2005, 2006), Inter (2007, 2008, 2009), Barcelona (2010) and AC Milan (2011). In addition, after his arrival at PSG he became the only player to score in the UEFA Champions League with 6 different teams. All this in addition to being the player who has won more times the best Swedish Footballer of the year prize, 11 times to be precise. It could not be different from a man whose name literally means "gold."

7)He has never won the Champions League.

Despite being one of the top scorers in football history to have played in such important clubs, Zlatan has never won the UEFA Champions League, the most important club trophy in the world. Neither in Malmö, nor in Ajax, Juventus, Inter, Barcelona, ​​AC Milan, PSG, Manchester United; in none of those teams he went through he managed to win the most important club trophy in the world. And it is curious that just after the departure of the Swedish from Inter and Barcelona, ​​both clubs managed to win the UEFA Champions League the following year without Zlatan.

8)It has its own definition in the dictionary.

Zlatan is so important in Sweden that even the Swedish dictionary has a definition in his honor. It is the word "Zlatanear". It is a verb that means "to dominate with force" and that has its origin in France, since it was used to refer to the personality of the striker.

9)It has a private island.

In 2012 Zlatan bought an Island in Dirty. It is specifically the island of Davenzo, west of Stockholm. The striker paid a total of 5 million euros and the expense is due to his desire to use this island to hunt, another of his passions .

10)A unique personality.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic has always stood out for having to talk so much inside like outside the court. He has had countless fights with teammates and for the memory are his fights with Pep Guardiola. Many consider him an arrogant and self-centered person, since he always says he is the best of all and has called himself the "god" of football and one of the best players in history. But the reality is that Ibrahimovic is a great person, who does not stop joking with his colleagues and the press. The best thing is that unlike Cristiano Ronaldo (who really believes he is the best in history), Zlatan seems to be playing a perpetual joke. Many times has been defined as the best of all, but the reality is that he laughs at us because we believe that he believes what he thinks about himself. The truth is that the only thing bigger than the talent and ego of Zlatan Ibrahimovic is his immense smile.