Biography and the life story of Zlatan Ibrahimovic "one of the leading bombers who have graced Europe's top leagues"

Zlatan Ibrahimovic was born on 3 October 1981 in Malmo, Sweden. His father is a Bosnian named Sefik Ibrahimovic and his mother is from Croatia named Jurka Grafic. Ibrahimovic has two older brothers named Sapko and Seelena.

Ibra's parents' household relations did not go harmoniously. Until its peak, at the age of two years, Ibra had seen his parents divorced.

The separation made Ibra part with his sister, Selena. He and Sapko were taken care of by his father, Sefik, while Selena was with his mother, Jurka. After the divorce, Ibra's father did not overdo his life. He still works carelessly and keeps drinking.

Sefik continues to be obsessed with becoming a famous singer, forgetting his task of educating Sapko and Ibra. Messy household life and immigrant status make little Ibra have a hard temper.

Since childhood Ibra has shown interest in football. He started playing football at the age of six. Ibra fills his time playing soccer with his friends on an unfit or rocky field near his home. However, in the end the field was able to be transformed into a suitable field and had modern facilities in 2007.

Among his friends, Ibra became a very prominent figure when processing the round skin in childhood.

Even then, Ibra had to steal a bicycle to be able to go to the soccer training ground, and get there on time. Ibra admitted, thanks to the case of stealing the bicycle, he understood the meaning of hard work to get something in football.

Luckily at that time his father was not drunk and saw the potential that his son had. Sefik then buried deep in his obsession to become a famous singer. Little by little he began to set aside money so that Ibra could practice soccer properly.

A hard character, a broken family, and immigrant status make Ibra often ridiculed.

Ibra began his career when he was 8 years old. He joined a local junior club, Malmo BI and FBK Balkan. At the age of 15 years, Ibra would hardly continue his career in the world of football because he had to work on a dock in the city of Malmo. However, his coach convinced Ibra to continue playing football.

In the end, Ibra signed his first contract with Malmö in 1996, and was promoted to the Malmo FF first team in 1999.

Ibra grew up when the name of the Brazilian striker Ronaldo shined. He once recognized Il Fenomenon as an idol. According to Ibra, Ronaldo will always be remembered as the best striker in the world.

After three years defending Malmo's senior team. In 2001 Ibra moved to the Eredivisie club, Ajax Amsterdam. His first season with Ajax was spent with 9 goals in 33 appearances in all competitions. At the beginning of the season, he did not get a large portion of play.

However, when Ronald Koeman took over as manager, Ibra became the first choice in the position of attacker AJax. As a result, Ajax successfully won the Eredivisie and Ibra brought Ajax to the quarterfinals of the 2001/02 champions league.

At Ajax Amsterdam, Ibra played until the 2003/04 season, during which season he recorded 15 goals in 31 matches in all competitions.

On August 18, 2004, the Swedish national team defended by Ibra held a test match against the Dutch. In that match, Ibra injured his teammate at Ajax, Rafael van der Vaart. For this reason, Ibra was finally sold to Juventus on 31 August 2004.

Ibra was sold to Juventus for a fee of 16 million euros. Ibra immediately entered the main squad after striker David Trezeguet suffered an injury. Ibra scored 16 goals in his debut season. That season he also brought Juventus to the Serie A championship and at the end of the season, the old lady refused Real Madrid's 70 million euro offer to bring Ibrahim.

The following season, the number of goals decreased. He brought Juventus to the Serie A championship. But at that time the old lady was hit by the Calciopoli case until Juventus had to be relegated to Serie B and the league title was revoked.

In August 2006, Ibra resigned from Turkey and signed a contract with his idol club as a child, Inter Milan at a cost of 24.8 million euros, or around Rp 373 billion.

Ibra made his debut for Inter Milan on August 26, 2006 against AS Roma in the Italian Super Cup, he played for 90 minutes when Inter won through extra time.

A few weeks later, he scored on his Serie A debut against Fiorentina on 9 September, when Inter started the league with a 3-2 win at the Stadio Artemio Franchi.

His first season with Inter Milan, Ibra scored 15 goals and brought Nerazuri to Serie A championship with a record 97 points. Ibra played his 100th match in Serie A on September 16, 2007 against Catania in San Siro, where he appeared as a substitute at the second half replaced Hernán Crespo when Inter won 2-0.

The 2008/09 season Ibrahimo finished his third season with I Nerrazuri, in that season Ibra became the top scorer with 25 goals in Serie A and helped Inter Milan to cheer the Scudetto for the third time in a row. He was also chosen as Serie A's best player.

With Inter Milan Ibra won three Scudetto and two Italian super trophies.

After spending three seasons at Inter with 66 goals from 117 appearances in all competitions, Ibra left for Barcelona. Together with the Catalan club Ibra only lasted one season, until the following season he joined another Milan city club, AC Milan on loan.

His first season playing for AC Milan, Ibra managed to present the title of serie A. Then in the 2011/12 season Ibra was permanently contracted by the Rossoneri. In that season he appeared 44 times and scored 35 goals in all competitions.

After a pretty neat appearance with AC Milan, in 2012 Ibra joined the rich French club, Paris Saint Germain.

Together with PSG, Ibra's performance is still very promising. During the four seasons of his career at PSG he managed to break through opponents 156 goals in all competitions in 180 appearances. Four ligue 1 trophies and several other trophies were successfully presented by the Swedish man.

After that, Ibra joined the English team, Manchester United. At Old Trafford Ibra only played for one season, he presented the Europa League Trophy in his first season. A 28 goal score in all competitions for the devil is proof that his sharpness is still high in his age.

On March 23, 2018, Ibra signed a contract with the LA Galaxy Major League Soccer (MLS) club. He made his debut on March 31, facing Los Angeles FC.

Until now, the player who likes to tattoo his body is still grazing with a club that once raised the name of Landon Donovan.

In addition to his greatness with the team he defended, Ibra also showed a brilliant performance when he was in the Swedish national team uniform. His debut for Sweden occurred in a friendly match against the Faroe Islands in Tipshallen on January 31, 2001 which ended 0-0.

Together with Sweden, Ibra has played 116 times and scored 62 goals. It was listed as Sweden's top scorer of all time. Ibra appeared in two editions of the world cup and four editions of the European cup. But he has not been able to give a prestigious title for Sweden.

As a striker Ibra has scored a lot, not only that, the goals he created were also many beautiful goals. Then, he won a number of individual awards and team trophies that he had defended, but there is one thing that he has yet to achieve, the Champions League Trophy.

On the gridiron, the figure of Zlatan Ibrahimovic may seem hard and violent and often cause controversy. But all of that disappears when you're with family. The life partner, Helena Seger, admitted Ibra likes to do strange things.

This was revealed in the autobiography book 'I am Zlatan Ibrahimovic'. "He likes to surprise us with many things. Most often are romantic things when we go on vacation, "Helena said.

At the age of retirement from football, Zlatan Ibrahimovic must be remembered as a Swedish legend and will always be remembered as a sharp attacker who had triumphed with the club he defended.