2023-06-05 12:40:11
the swedish striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic announced his retirement from football this Sunday, following the last match of the AC Milan in the Serie A season.
“It’s time to say goodbye to football, not to you. It is very difficult, I feel many emotions inside of me. They welcomed me with open arms, I will be a Milan fan for the rest of my life”, said the Swede from 41 years on the San Siro pitch, following Milan’s 3-1 win over Hellas Verona on matchday 38.
AC Milan, a club to which he returned at the end of 2019 and the one who helped to return to the top of Italian football, winning the Scudetto in 2022 in particular, had announced a ceremony on Saturday to “thank Zlatan for the wonderful moments we’ve had together.”
Due to his repeated injuries, the Swede practically he was unable to play this season. He returned to competition in February, following being left knee surgery in May 2022.
Ibrahimovic only started one game, in March, in a 3-1 win once morest Udinese. He became in that encounter in the oldest player to score in Serie A history. At the end of March, he still had the hope of being able to play Euro 2024 next year in Germany.
But he reinjured himself once more in a calfduring a warm-up before a game in April, and has finished the season on the substitute bench, the place from which he experienced the last game of his career on Sunday.
“We can only thank him for everything he has done for us. It is sad that a champion like him will never play football once more,” coach Stefano Pioli told the club’s television channel.
After a career that began at Malmo in his country and in which he has gone through other European teams such as Ajax, Juventus, Inter Milan, FC Barcelona, Paris Saint-Germain and Manchester Unitedhas numerous championships in his record: two in the Netherlands, five in Italy (three times with Inter, two with Milan), one in Spain and four in France.
Between his time at Manchester United and his return to Milan, he defended the colors of Los Angeles Galaxy from March 2018 to November 2019.
As far as individual statistics are concerned, during his extensive career He played 988 games and scored 573 goals distributed in all the clubs that he has been and his selection.
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