It’s not a sports bra: there’s a good reason behind Zlatan Ibrahimović’s new look
Zlatan Ibrahimović has never struggled to attract headlines in his footballing career, but the post-match of Paris Saint-Germain’s friendly defeat to Real Madrid led to the striker grabbing the spotlight for an entirely new reason.
Swapping shirts after the 1-0 pre-season loss in his native Sweden, Ibrahimović revealed a bikini-esque outfit underneath his PSG kit.
Far from broadening his impressive resume with a stint as a glamour model, Zlatan – according to Deadspin – is sporting a performance-tracking kit designed by GPSports.
The tracker, according to their website, has numerous benefits, enabling analysts to compare a number of aspects of a player's game to maximise their performance. Perhaps Perhaps disconcertingly for the never knowingly over-exerted Zlatan, it also quantifies work rates...
Zlatan Ibrahimović (Swedish pronunciation: [ˈslaːtan ɪbraˈhiːmɔvɪtʂ], Bosnian pronunciation: [ˈzlatan ibraˈxiːmɔʋitɕ]; born 3 October 1981) is a Swedish professional footballer who plays as a striker for Ligue 1 club Paris Saint-Germain and the Swedish national team for which he is captain. Ibrahimović started his career at Malmö FF in the late 1990s under Roland Andersson. He was signed by Ajax, and made a name for himself under Ronald Koeman. He later signed with Juventus for €16 million. Ibrahimović gained fame in Serie A, benefiting from his strike partnership with David Trezeguet.
In 2006, he signed with league rival Internazionale, where he won individual awards such as the Italian Oscar del Calcio and the Swedish Guldbollen, and was named in the 2007 and 2009 UEFA Team of the Year, in addition to finishing as the league's highest scorer in 2008–09 while winning three straight Scudetti. In the summer of 2009, he transferred to Barcelona. His time at Barcelona was short lived, however, moving back to Serie A football with Milan the following season, in a deal which made him one of the highest paid footballers in the world and cost the Italian club €24 million. He signed a three-year contract with Paris Saint-Germain in July of 2012.
In 2012, he was ranked 5th in
The Guardian's 100 Best Footballers in the world.
Ibrahimović was born in Sweden to a Bosnian Muslim father who emigrated to Sweden in 1977, Šefik Ibrahimović, and a Croatian Catholic mother, Jurka Gravić, who also emigrated to Sweden, where they first met. His father was born in Bijeljina, SFR Yugoslavia, and his mother was born in Prkos, Zadar County, SFR Yugoslavia. Ibrahimović grew up in Rosengård, a Malmö neighbourhood known for its immigrant communities, along with his three sisters and two brothers. After receiving a pair of football boots, Ibrahimović began playing football at the age of six, alternating between local junior clubs Malmö BI and FBK Balkan.
He has stated in an interview that while his team was down 4–0 during halftime, he came on as a substitute for his Balkan youth team and dramatically scored eight goals. While in his early teens, he was a regular for his hometown club Malmö FF.[7] At the age of 15, Ibrahimović was close to quitting his football career, in favour of working at the docks in Malmö, but his manager convinced him to continue playing. Ibrahimović successfully completed junior high school in the ninth grade. Though he was admitted to Borgarskolan and had above average grades, he soon dropped out of high school to focus on his football career.
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