He is widely considered as the second greatest Swedish sportsperson of all-time, every sixth-foot and fifth-inch of his omnipresence standing squarely behind only tennis icon Björn Borg on the nation’s de facto G.O.A.T. list. Born in the late 70’s to immigrant parents – his father a Muslim Bosniak, his mother a Croatian Catholic - Zlatan Ibrahimović, the mercurial mega talent, global sex symbol, controversially ill-tempered teammate, and stellar superstar striker known mononymously as Zlatan, is one of the best footballers ever, in any era. With a style of play articulated by ESPN analysts as: “good in the air, tall, strong and agile, he plays well with his back to the goal and boasts some of the best finishing, vision, passing and ball control around,” Zlatan is agile and acrobatic, strong and fast, with superior field vision and a uniquely prolific penchant for executing the sport’s toughest task – scoring goals. The man puts up numbers like a mathematician land lording a numerical dormitory. There’s simply no room for others to move if Zlatan’s bored.
Written by ToneSwep
Images by Joel Borg
Recently, Zlatan used his world fashion capital home of Paris as a prevailing platform to introduce his new clothing line A-Z, a masculine and mood diverse athleisure wear line clinging to a slingshot slogan offering this understanding: everyone has a tad of Zlatan edge inside them, and as such, should unleash their inner voice. After opining that those effacingly self-destructive enough to criticize your labor should have their tongues ripped from their mouths; their words eaten like meat, Zlatan summarizes his life’s pain turned passion which inspired both this collection and the athlete’s outlook in general: “What I went through. All the hard work. Feeling different, from where I came. There wasn’t a lot of opportunities. But I took my opportunity. I trained harder than everybody else. I needed to be ten times better than the other ones because of my background and because of where I came from,” expressed Zlatan, his words a geo-cultural badge for experience-shapes-reality theorists. “This is my way of giving back to all the people out there. This is the people’s brand. I am the people’s man. That is the way it is.” Experience the collection at A-Z.