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“When I arrived, a journalist told me that normally returning players can only do worsehe said on DAZN Sunday. I had responded by promising that I would bring Milan back to the Top and that we would win the Scudetto. Some laughed but there, I am champion.”
As soon as he returned to the dressing room, Ibra had shaken up a struggling team and fallen into the soft underbelly of Serie A.”Raise your hands, those who have already played the Champions League“, he had swung to his teammates, according to an anecdote told by Luigi Garlando, journalist of the Journal. They were then only two to be able to answer in the affirmative… timidly: Hakan Calhanoglu and Ciprian Tatarusanu.
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The Swede didn’t need that anyway to know that AC Milan no longer had the same weapons as when he first played, where he rubbed shoulders with players of international stature, from Pirlo to Ronaldinho, from Seedorf to Inzaghi. So he adapted. “He is the beacon of this teamconfided his trainer Stefano Pioli last April. His will is indomitable.”
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head and legs
“It pushes even further the requirement“, abounded Olivier Giroud, who nevertheless knew the appetite of the biggest English clubs. First relay of Stefano Pioli, Zlatan also kept an influence on the ground, with 8 goals and 3 assists in 23 Serie A matches.
What make him want to extend the adventure? Not sure, since the will alone might not be enough. “I suffered a lot for this trophyhe confessed. It depends on what will happen in the next few days” More and more physically fragile, the striker also apprehends the life following: “I know that I will have other possibilitieshe pointed out last March. But this adrenaline that I have on the lawn, I won’t find it anywhere else.”
At the end of the contract, Zlatan should quickly discuss with the Milanese discussion. For the first time, without his agent Mino Raiola, who died on April 30, to whom he was extremely close. And to which he dedicated the 34th title of his career: “This is the first trophy I win without him.”
(With AFP)
Zlatan Ibrahimovic with the Italian champion trophy won with AC Milan, May 22, 2022
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