Zlatan Ibrahimovic gets a role in the national team when he ends his active playing career.
This was stated by the Gazzetta dello Sport.
– I wouldn’t be surprised if someone asked us the question, national team manager Stefan Peterson told Fotbollskanalen.
a little later Milan SWon the league title in Italy Zlatan Ibrahimovic Knee surgery in France because he played for a long time with an anterior cruciate ligament injury in his right knee.
The 40-year-old is expected to miss games for 7-8 months. According to Italian information, the striker’s ambition should be to continue his football career, but it is not yet clear a new contract with Milan.
Gazzetta dello Sport now reports that there is already a plan in place to play a role around Ibrahimovic’s Sweden squad as well when he ends his playing career.
The information that Fotbollskanalen was first included and also reproduced by Football Italia.
“It’s not stupid to catch him.”
Ibrahimovic will not be involved in the day-to-day operational work around the national team, but rather play a representative role, says Gazzetta dello Sport.
To the Football Channel, national team manager Stefan Peterson said that he was not aware of such an agreement between the Swedish Football Association and Zlatan Ibrahimovic, but said:
If we can use the adjectives of such a person, it is not foolish to agree, says Peterson.
Immediately after Sweden missed the World Cup and lost to Poland in the crucial qualifier – with Ibrahimovic jumping at the end of the match – national team captain Jan Andersson said of a possible future for the 40-year-old:
With his experience and personality I would be stupid and I didn’t want to use him in any way on or off the field.
Sportbladet is looking for SvFF General Secretary Håkan Sjöstrand for comment.
