Daily Soccer Buzz: Mr Ibrahimovic, it is said that you have in your youth once stole a bicycle to reach the training. Is that true? Zlatan Ibrahimovic: (laughs) My father worked and had no time to take me to training. On foot, it was too far. I knew how to steal bikes, so I stole one and I drove off with it.
Daily Soccer Buzz: Have you returned it? Ibrahimovic: Yes. I kept it until it was stolen. Then again, I stole another. In the area where I grew up, which unfortunately was normal. Soccer Daily Buzz: Today your team-mate Robinho says about you, you are one of the three best strikers in the world.
Who do you think are the other two? Ibrahimovic: There are many strikers who are very good. But I think that one of Samuel Eto'o (Inter Milan, the editor), is a great striker. And then Dimitar Berbatov (Manchester United, note), he has scored many goals. Daily Soccer Buzz: What's the striker Ibrahimovic to improve? Ibrahimovic: I want to be better every year than last.
Because when you arrive at a destination, have no more hunger and think that you can not grow, then to hear better. Daily Soccer Buzz: What do you like on the field the most fun? Ibrahimovic: It's simple: play football! I want to have fun with the ball, but that's not always easy. Soccer is now too serious.
You have things to do to achieve results that a perhaps not so pleased. Daily Soccer Buzz: Put more personally value a beautiful game? Ibrahimovic: Let's say this: I prefer the beautiful game as the bad. Daily Soccer Buzz: Think of Spain? They have played in last season at FC Barcelona.
Ibrahimovic: One more elegantly in Spain, playing football. Here in Italy it is physical, tactical, results-oriented. Daily Soccer Buzz: Counting in Spain, the beautiful game more than the result? Ibrahimovic: Yes, there it is very important to provide a nice game. The Spaniards play differently.
I think that the Italians do have the attitude to win. But is obtained as is, no matter. In Spain, however, it is important to win with a nice game. Daily Soccer Buzz: Can learn Italian football like this? Ibrahimovic: In the last ten years, Spain has won almost everything, but if you look at the history, the Italians have many years of football to play with her determined way, with their style, their tactics.
Especially the Spanish are strong because they have great teams, great players. But the only Spanish club that has won more than others, is Real Madrid. Last year it was Inter Milan, which dominated European football. Everyone has their time, and I hope that AC Milan, while I'm here, also has its time.
Daily Soccer Buzz: Recently, as the German Alex Merkel in Milan's midfield. How is the interaction with him? Ibrahimovic: It's a great talent, has played through a few matches in the A-team and done a good job. He is a player that I like because it makes football fun. He is not a hard player, but one that plays.
But he is still young, he still has much to learn what is normal in the first professional year. He makes everything very well. Daily Soccer Buzz: Has your team after the 0-1 against Tottenham this stuff to get to the quarter-finals of the Champions League? Ibrahimovic: It's an important moment.
If we make two goals, then it's all of us very well. If not, it is hard. We must have in mind that we have to win the game with two goals. The important thing is to prepare well mentally and physically. Daily Soccer Buzz: Who will win this year's Champions League? Ibrahimovic: In the Champions League anything can happen.
Even those who are less favored to win, can, because all are very strong in the Champions League - that's why they're champions. Road to the final is still long. Daily Soccer Buzz: And the way to the championship? The AC led ten games remaining with five points ahead of Inter Milan. Ibrahimovic: We play a game at a time.
Then happened what happened. It is important that we are working, in good shape and prepared. We need to focus on our things. If we do our work, we are at the end first. Daily Soccer Buzz: With you on the team can go wrong really nothing more. Where have you always played, they won titles ...
Ibrahimovic: (laughs) Let's hope the best! I'm in good shape and hope to stay there. We had some games where we lost points without reason, but that's normal. The championship is still long, and there are still difficult encounters. Daily Soccer Buzz: they act on the field very confident.
What gives you that security? Ibrahimovic: trust. Where I grew up, it was always important to have confidence in themselves. Daily Soccer Buzz: How to reach such a trust? Ibrahimovic: "You have to believe in yourself. If you do something well, it gives you confidence, and if you make a goal, gives you the trust.
Little things that give you something a whole. And at the end of the trust is then grown. And when others attack you, speak ill of you, then they all mean nothing if you believe in you. Daily Soccer Buzz: The fans judge a player by what they see of him on the field. How are you otherwise? Ibrahimovic: I am a very quiet person, I am always with my family.
I have two wonderful sons, and as a footballer you do not have much time off the field. Every day of training every three days a game: If you then once at home, they relax and wait for the next day to train again. Thus, Zlatan. I have a big heart, always wants the best for others. Some say that it was important to me that other well-off than myself Soccer Daily Buzz: Is it next to the perfect life and a perfect game? Ibrahimovic: Perfection does not exist.
But some people thought they were there, and then crashed. I'll give you an example: Tiger Woods. But you have to make mistakes. This is normal. We all make mistakes, to learn. 
Daily Soccer Buzz: Have you returned it? Ibrahimovic: Yes. I kept it until it was stolen. Then again, I stole another. In the area where I grew up, which unfortunately was normal. Soccer Daily Buzz: Today your team-mate Robinho says about you, you are one of the three best strikers in the world.
Who do you think are the other two? Ibrahimovic: There are many strikers who are very good. But I think that one of Samuel Eto'o (Inter Milan, the editor), is a great striker. And then Dimitar Berbatov (Manchester United, note), he has scored many goals. Daily Soccer Buzz: What's the striker Ibrahimovic to improve? Ibrahimovic: I want to be better every year than last.
Because when you arrive at a destination, have no more hunger and think that you can not grow, then to hear better. Daily Soccer Buzz: What do you like on the field the most fun? Ibrahimovic: It's simple: play football! I want to have fun with the ball, but that's not always easy. Soccer is now too serious.
You have things to do to achieve results that a perhaps not so pleased. Daily Soccer Buzz: Put more personally value a beautiful game? Ibrahimovic: Let's say this: I prefer the beautiful game as the bad. Daily Soccer Buzz: Think of Spain? They have played in last season at FC Barcelona.
Ibrahimovic: One more elegantly in Spain, playing football. Here in Italy it is physical, tactical, results-oriented. Daily Soccer Buzz: Counting in Spain, the beautiful game more than the result? Ibrahimovic: Yes, there it is very important to provide a nice game. The Spaniards play differently.
I think that the Italians do have the attitude to win. But is obtained as is, no matter. In Spain, however, it is important to win with a nice game. Daily Soccer Buzz: Can learn Italian football like this? Ibrahimovic: In the last ten years, Spain has won almost everything, but if you look at the history, the Italians have many years of football to play with her determined way, with their style, their tactics.
Especially the Spanish are strong because they have great teams, great players. But the only Spanish club that has won more than others, is Real Madrid. Last year it was Inter Milan, which dominated European football. Everyone has their time, and I hope that AC Milan, while I'm here, also has its time.
Daily Soccer Buzz: Recently, as the German Alex Merkel in Milan's midfield. How is the interaction with him? Ibrahimovic: It's a great talent, has played through a few matches in the A-team and done a good job. He is a player that I like because it makes football fun. He is not a hard player, but one that plays.
But he is still young, he still has much to learn what is normal in the first professional year. He makes everything very well. Daily Soccer Buzz: Has your team after the 0-1 against Tottenham this stuff to get to the quarter-finals of the Champions League? Ibrahimovic: It's an important moment.
If we make two goals, then it's all of us very well. If not, it is hard. We must have in mind that we have to win the game with two goals. The important thing is to prepare well mentally and physically. Daily Soccer Buzz: Who will win this year's Champions League? Ibrahimovic: In the Champions League anything can happen.
Even those who are less favored to win, can, because all are very strong in the Champions League - that's why they're champions. Road to the final is still long. Daily Soccer Buzz: And the way to the championship? The AC led ten games remaining with five points ahead of Inter Milan. Ibrahimovic: We play a game at a time.
Then happened what happened. It is important that we are working, in good shape and prepared. We need to focus on our things. If we do our work, we are at the end first. Daily Soccer Buzz: With you on the team can go wrong really nothing more. Where have you always played, they won titles ...
Ibrahimovic: (laughs) Let's hope the best! I'm in good shape and hope to stay there. We had some games where we lost points without reason, but that's normal. The championship is still long, and there are still difficult encounters. Daily Soccer Buzz: they act on the field very confident.
What gives you that security? Ibrahimovic: trust. Where I grew up, it was always important to have confidence in themselves. Daily Soccer Buzz: How to reach such a trust? Ibrahimovic: "You have to believe in yourself. If you do something well, it gives you confidence, and if you make a goal, gives you the trust.
Little things that give you something a whole. And at the end of the trust is then grown. And when others attack you, speak ill of you, then they all mean nothing if you believe in you. Daily Soccer Buzz: The fans judge a player by what they see of him on the field. How are you otherwise? Ibrahimovic: I am a very quiet person, I am always with my family.
I have two wonderful sons, and as a footballer you do not have much time off the field. Every day of training every three days a game: If you then once at home, they relax and wait for the next day to train again. Thus, Zlatan. I have a big heart, always wants the best for others. Some say that it was important to me that other well-off than myself Soccer Daily Buzz: Is it next to the perfect life and a perfect game? Ibrahimovic: Perfection does not exist.
But some people thought they were there, and then crashed. I'll give you an example: Tiger Woods. But you have to make mistakes. This is normal. We all make mistakes, to learn.
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