Sweden
Milan forward Zlatan Ibrahimovic, He couldn’t help his tears when asked about his family’s reaction on Monday at his first press conference when he returned with the Swedish national team four years later.
“Not a good questionHe was with Vincent (one of his sons) and he started to cry when I left him. But it’s all good … “, said in Stockholm” Ibra “, who had to pause and wipe away her tears.
Zlatan’s unexpected cry responds to the fact that all of his loved ones are in Sweden. While living alone in Italy, a country where he spends most of his time on his commitments with Milan, a club where he arrived just over a year ago.
“Nobody is against when it comes to playing for your country. It’s about giving up or notSaid the attacker of his close people’s reaction regarding his return to Sweden.
The 39-year-old Swedish star is the big news on the list for the first two qualifiers for Qatar 2022 against Georgia and Kosovo and the friendly against Estonia.
“Ibra” withdrew from the Swedish national team after Euro 2016, but hinted last fall that he wanted to come back and met Swedish coach, Jan “Janne” Andersson, whom he had criticized several times in the past for being players of had not counted. foreign descent.
As he had done a few days ago in an interview broadcast by the Swedish Federation, Ibrahimovic reiterated that he was returning for his performance in Milan, not for his name.
“I’m here because I deserve it, what I did before doesn’t matter at allsaid the Swedish star, who was proud and convinced that he was there to “help” and that he was not “demanding” anything.
The Swedish team’s all-time top scorer, with 62 goals in 116 games, confessed that if he had said ‘no’ to return, he would have regretted it within a year, stressing that the most important thing is to ‘continue with to do. that you love for as long as possible “.