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Daring, flashy, innovative, volatile--no matter what they call him, Zlatan Ibrahimovic is one of soccers brightest stars. A top-scoring striker with Paris Saint-Germain and captain of the Swedish national team, he has dominated the worlds most storied teams, including Ajax, Juventus, Inter Milan, Barcelona, and AC Milan. 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 kids--opponents and teammates alike. Goal by astonishing goal, the brash young outsider grew into an unlikely prodigy and, by his early twenties, an international phenomenon.
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PRAISE FOR I AM ZLATAN SHORTLISTED FOR THE AUGUST PRIZE 2012 The best - photo 2
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I AM ZLATAN

SHORTLISTED FOR THE AUGUST PRIZE 2012

The best footballers autobiography of recent years is probably I Am Zlatan. In fact, having sold 700,000 copies in Sweden alone and been published in fifteen countries, its probably the bestselling European immigrants tale since Zadie Smiths White Teeth. Once you get past the obligatory snigger prompted by the phrase footballers autobiography, you can see that Zlatans book strangely resembles an earlier immigrants tale: Portnoys Complaint, Philip Roths classic novel about growing up Jewish in 1930s and 1940s Newark, New Jersey. Each mans story illuminates the other. Moreover, each illuminates the increasingly typical yet rarely heard immigrant experience. Most of the talk about immigrants comes from politicians pontificating about them. These books are wonderful first-hand accounts of what its like to grow up in an immigrant family. Though Zlatan and Roth are separated by an ocean and four decades, the overlaps are remarkable.

Financial Times (UK)

Might well be the most compelling autobiography ever to appear under a footballers name.

The Guardian (UK)

This is no PR fluff, nor the usual watered-down account of a pampered multi-millionaire. When was the last time a footballer still playing at the peak of his powers spoke out with such devastating honesty? And the whole story is delivered like he is sitting on a bar stool next to you, telling a tale over a pint down the pub. This book must be treasured.

Daily Mail (UK)

This is a snarling, fizzing, unrepentant firecracker of a book; if footballers memoirs bore you, make an exception for this one.

The Independent (UK)

It is so good. It is so bloody good. A future classic that will change Sweden. A masterpiece.

Aftonbladet (Sweden)

Good God, this is dynamite!

Sportbladet (Sweden)

This has to be the best contemporary depiction I have read of the Swedish working classes from the big city suburbs.

Kulturnytt (Sweden)

Sensationally honest and well written.

Expressen (Sweden)

2014 Random House Trade Paperbacks Edition Copyright 2011 by Zlatan Ibrahimovi - photo 4

2014 Random House Trade Paperbacks Edition

Copyright 2011 by Zlatan Ibrahimovi and David Lagercrantz English translation copyright 2012, 2013 by Ruth Urbom

All rights reserved.

Published in the United States by Random House Trade Paperbacks, an imprint of Random House, a division of Random House LLC, a Penguin Random House Company, New York.

R ANDOM H OUSE and the H OUSE colophon are registered trademarks of Random House LLC.

First published by Albert Bonniers Frlag, Stockholm, Sweden, in 2011 as a Swedish hardcover edition and 2012 as a digital English edition. This changed version of the translation was published in paperback by Penguin Books Ltd., London, in 2013.

L IBRARY OF C ONGRESS C ATALOGING-IN- P UBLICATION D ATA
Ibrahimovic, Zlatan.
I am Zlatan : my story on and off the field / Zlatan Ibrahimovic with David Lagercrantz ; translated from the Swedish by Ruth Urbom.
pages cm
ISBN 978-0-8129-8692-1
eBook ISBN 978-0-8129-8693-8
1. Ibrahimovic, Zlatan, 1981 2. Soccer playersSwedenBiography.
3. Milan (Soccer team). I. Lagercrantz, David. II. Title.
GV942.7.I27A3 2014
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2014006346

Cover design: David G. Stevenson
Cover photograph: Eric Broms

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CAST OF CHARACTERS
Co AdriaanseMy first coach at Ajax.
Aleksandar, also known as KekiMy little brother, born in 1986.
Massimo AmbrosiniAC Milan team captain. Midfielder.
Micke AnderssonMy coach at Malm FF, in the Superettan League and later in the Allsvenskan League.
Roland AnderssonFormer soccer player and member of the Swedish national team. My coach when I joined Malm FF.
Mario BalotelliYoung talent with Inter Milan. Striker. Later with Manchester City.
Marco van BastenStriker, outstanding goal-scorer. Totally dominated at AC Milan. Named World Player of the Year in 1992.
Leo BeenhakkerSoccer boss, previously managed teams, including Real Madrid. Sports director at Ajax when I joined that team.
Txiki BegiristainSports director at Barcelona during my time with that club. Later resigned.
Silvio BerlusconiOwner of AC Milan. Former Italian prime minister.
Hasse BorgFormer player and defender with the Swedish national team. Sports director at Malm FF during my time with the club.
Fabio CannavaroArrived at Juventus at the same time I did. Defender. Named World Player of the Year in 2006. Won the World Cup with Italy in 2006.
Fabio CapelloDemon manager. My coach at Juventus.
Antonio CassanoStriker at AC Milan. Member of Italian national team.
Tony FlygareChildhood friend. Soccer talent at Malm FF.
Louis van GaalSoccer boss. Former manager. Director of Ajax during the latter part of my time there.
Italo GalbiatiCapellos right-hand man at Juventus.
Adriano GallianiSoccer boss, vice president of AC Milan.
Gennaro GattusoMidfielder at AC Milan. A warrior. Won the WorldCup with Italy in 2006.
Pep GuardiolaFormer midfielder, played for Barcelona. My coach at that club.
HelenaMy girlfriend, my partner. Mother of my children.
Thierry HenryMy friend at Barcelona. French superstar, formerly with Arsenal, where he became that clubs top goal-scorer of all time. Won the World Cup in 1998 and the European Championship in 2000 with France.
Andrs IniestaBrilliant midfielder and winger with Barcelona. Won the World Cup in 2010 and the European Championship with Spain in 2012.
Filippo InzaghiStriker, leading goal-scorer. Star with AC Milan. I lived in his apartment in Turin. Won the World Cup with Italy in 2006.
JurkaMy mom. Born in Croatia. She worked as a cleaner.
KakBrazilian, attacking midfielder, global star. Named World Player of the Year in 2007. Transferred from AC Milan to Real Madrid.
Ronald KoemanMy coach during the latter part of my time at Ajax.
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