Tuesday, February 28, 2017

Hail Zlatan!

What a great story. The pride of Sweden at 35 years of age has scored 15 times for Manchester United in his first season in the Premier League. Without Ibrahimović where would United be? (Wayne Rooney has scored two goals in the league. *Ouch*.)  Ibrahimović is only two goals off the three-way league leaders Harry Kane of Spurs, Romelu Lukaku of Everton, and Alexis Sanchez of Arsenal. Kun Aguero, despite enforced inactivity, leads God's Team with 11 and is eighth in the league.

Plucking Ibrahimović from PSG, especially at age 35, also qualifies as an unvarnished coup for Jose Mourinho. Mou coached Ibrahimović in 2008-09 at Inter Milan.

Ibrahimović also has one of the most interesting faces in world soccer,
a cross between the Anonymous mask, 
and Jack Nicholson's Joker.





And at 6'5", and with all of those goals, he's impossible to miss. Impossible to mark, too, apparently.