I Am Zlatan My Story on and Off the Field

I Am Zlatan : My Story on and Off the Field
ISBN: 9780812986921
Publication Date: 3 June 2014

Daring, flashy, innovative, volatileno matter what they call him, Zlatan Ibrahimovic is one of soccers brightest stars. A top-scoring striker and captain of the Swedish national team, he has dominated the worlds most storied teams, including Ajax, Juventus, Inter Milan, Barcelona, AC Milan, and Paris Saint-Germain. But his life wasnt always so charmed.

Born to Balkan immigrants who divorced when he was a toddler, Zlatan learned self-reliance from his rough-and-tumble neighborhood. While his father, a Bosnian Muslim, drank to forget the war back home, his mothers household was engulfed in chaos. Soccer was Zlatans release. Mixing in street moves and trick plays, Zlatan was a wild talent who rode to practice on stolen bikes and relished showing up the rich kidsopponents and teammates alike. Goal by astonishing goal, the brash young outsider grew into an unlikely prodigy and, by his early twenties, an international phenomenon.

Told as only the man himself could tell it, featuring stories of friendships and feuds with the biggest names in the sport, I Am Zlatan is a wrenching, uproarious, and ultimately redemptive tale for underdogs everywhere.

Praise for I Am Zlatan

Terrific . . . Far more insightful than your typical jock memoir, Ibras book tells his story of growing up as the son of immigrants in Sweden and pulls no punches when it comes to his opinions of some of the biggest names in the game.Sports Illustrated

The most compelling autobiography ever to appear under a footballers name.The Guardian

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