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I Am Zlatan Essay

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I Am Zlatan Ibrahimović is an auto-biography of the Swedish future football legend, Zlatan Ibrahimović. In this book, Zlatan tells his story of a young poor kid growing up in a tough council estate in Rosengard, Sweden, to become a mega star that played for the top teams of world football of all time. Moving on, Zlatan expressed the events of his life as a timeline. This timeline is divided to different parts of his life, in which he recalls each with its own events, goals, amazing stories, and every training session on his journey to dominate the world’s prestige clubs, including Ajax, Juventus, Internazionale, Barcelona, Milan, and Paris Saint- Germain. The book opens with the first chapter of Zlatan’s life, his childhood. Ibrahimović tells …show more content…

Ibrahimović was on the form of his life, and that continued 2003-2004 season, where he scored thirteen goals for Ajax in league, one goal in the champion league. Zlatan was also able to win the title with Ajax once again, and helped Sweden to reach the Euro 2004 quarter-final. After that, things started to go down the hill for Zlatan, as he didn’t score as many goals for Ajax, and that had a positive impact on Zlatan’s career because it resulted in him meeting Mino Raiola, his agent. Mino had a similar personality to Ibrahimović, and they got along. Zlatan scored the goal of the year, which led to him earning a move to Juventus. Ibrahimović scored sixteen goals in the Seria A, won the league, and voted the best foreign player in Italy, and finally won the Swedish Guldbollen award in the 2004-2005 season. Zlatan had such a successful and a brilliant career in Italy as he won the Italian league with every team he joined multiple of times including Juventus, inter Milan, and Ac Milan. He also scored a lot of goals and brought dozens of awards and trophies from his 2005-2009 and 2010-2012 seasons he played

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