Zlatan Ibrahimovic was again recruited by AC Milan in January 2019. At that time, the Swedish striker had entered the age of 38 and signed a 6-month contract with an option to extend for 1 year. Zlatan then received a contract extension with AC Milan on August 31, 2020, and will be at AC Milan until June 2021.
Even though he is no longer young for a football player, Zlatan still has a big target at AC Milan. He is determined to return AC Milan to the level it should be. “I came here to take Milan back to their level, where they deserve to be. In my head, our goal has always been to win something. This season we have to win, ”said Zlatan Ibrahimovic after he extended his one-year contract with AC Milan.
Zlatan has shown that he is still able to make a big contribution to AC Milan. Last season, before Zlatan joined, Milan were scattered in 11th place. Zlatan then came and succeeded in bringing AC Milan to the 6th place in the final standings. He contributed 11 goals and 5 assists in the 18 matches he played with AC Milan in the last half of the 2019/20 season.
This is enough for Zlatan to prove that he is still worthy of being reckoned with today. “I’m like Benjamin Button. I am always young, never old! ” Said the player who on October 3 will be 39 years old.
Zlatan is still listed as Milan’s most fertile bomber in the last decade. While defending AC Milan in the 2010/11 and 2011/12 seasons plus half of the 2019/20 season, Zlatan was recorded to have contributed 52 goals. Only Carlos Bacca came closest to Zlatan with a total of 31 goals.
Taekwondo Keeps Zlatan Prima
Reporting from Bleacher Report, one interesting fact from Zlatan Ibrahimovic is that he was more fertile when he was 30 years old than when he was under 30 years old. Before reaching the age of 30, Zlatan scored a total of 232 goals in 528 matches he played. Meanwhile, after passing the age of 30 he managed to score 301 goals in 372 matches.
Taekwondo is one of Zlatan’s secrets in keeping his performance stable past the age of 30. By practicing Taekwondo your muscles, bones, tendons, and ligaments will get stronger. This is related to increasing stamina in the body, allowing Zlatan to be able to bring out his maximum ability during the match.
Zlatan does have his own Taekwondo practice site at home. He often shows off on his social media while practicing Taekwondo in his private facility. Zlatan himself has long been in the sport of Taekwondo. He even holds a black belt in Taekwondo in his home country, Sweden.
The combination of a body that remains in good shape and experience playing in various countries makes Zlatan still a dangerous attacker even though he is almost 40 years old. Zlatan’s ambition to bring AC Milan to a position that should be is not just nonsense that he cannot possibly make. Zlatan is still very likely to be able to compete in the race for the title of top scorer in Serie A next season.
“So you think I’m done, that my career will end soon? You don’t know me! All my life, I have had to fight. Nobody believed in me, so I have to believe in myself,” Zlatan said in his interview in Italian Football.
It will be interesting how Ibrahimovic will impact AC Milan’s performance in the next season. We have to wait and see whether his presence will affect the performance of his younger teammates to gain the trophy of Italian league, Serie A.
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