Zlatan Ibrahimovic announces retirement from Football at the age of 41 after AC Milan’s final game of 2022/23
Zlatan Ibrahimovic says goodbye to professional football after an amazing journey in every league and every major club in different leagues. He played in 9 clubs in his lifetime, and 8 of them are in the top 5 leagues, which shows how amazing he has been.
He played in Ajax, Juventus, Inter Milan, Barcelona, Paris Saint-Germain, Manchester United, LA Galaxy, and AC Milan.
He gave a short and emotional speech after the match to all the Milan fans to show his respect and love, which Zlatan is not known for, as he showed his arrogant and big ego side most of the time in his career.
“The first time we arrived at Milan you gave me happiness, the second time you gave me love. From my heart, I want to thank you fans. You welcomed me with open arms, you made me feel at home. I will be a Milan fan for the whole life and It’s time to say goodbye to football, not you”
Zlatan Ibrahimovic said in his retirement speech
When a reporter asked him about his view on football and his retirement, he said that he used to be scared whenever journalists asked about the future, which is unusual to hear from Zlatan’s mouth because he is one of the most confident people. He said that football gave him everything from fame to money, and also he happened to travel around the world just because of football.
Ibrahimovic scored in every club he played, which clearly shows his skills and ability to score, and he has been one of the best Sweden players. He played in 637 matches and scored 405 goals which clearly give anyone a hint of how good he was at scoring goal.
He represented Sweden in 122 matches in which he scored 62 goals which makes him the all-time leading goal scorer of Sweden’s international side. He also scored 48 UEFA Champions League goals in 124 appearances.
He played with almost every star player in the major clubs in the last 2 decades. Lionel Messi, Luis Figo, Pavel Nedved, Andres Iniesta, Xavi, Fabio Cannavaro, Carles Puyol, Maxwell, Javier Zanetti, Gigi Buffon, Henrik Larsson, Wesley Sneijder, Esteban Cambiasso, Andrea Pirlo, Marco Materazzi, Thiago Silva, and Victor Valdes are the mega stars whom with Zlatan played with in his career.