{"id":11424,"date":"2022-03-23T17:09:32","date_gmt":"2022-03-23T11:39:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=206299"},"modified":"2022-03-23T17:09:32","modified_gmt":"2022-03-23T11:39:32","slug":"zlatan-ibrahimovic-speaks-on-his-probable-retirement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/football\/zlatan-ibrahimovic-speaks-on-his-probable-retirement\/","title":{"rendered":"Zlatan Ibrahimovic speaks on his probable retirement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"s1\">Zlatan Ibrahimovic has expressed his fear about retiring, stating that the thought makes him \u2018panic.\u2019 <\/span>After a lengthy and fascinating career that began in 1999 with Swedish club Malmo, the 40-year-old keeps on rolling back the years at AC Milan, displaying no indication of slowing down just yet with eight goals in 18 Serie A appearances this season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Ibrahimovic has featured in the Premier League, Ligue 1, LaLiga, Eredivisie, MLS, and the Italian top flight, winning a total of 30 trophies and 510 goals in his career. But the lively and tall striker isn\u2019t satisfied yet, and he wants to play \u2018for as long as possible,\u2019 as long as his body can keep up with the modern game\u2019s rigours.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Ibrahimovic has charmed fans with his dynamic displays, consistent goal-scoring performances, and entertaining on-field behaviour, which has occasionally bordered on the provocative.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Ibrahimovic believes that after such a high-intensity career, he will have a weird feeling when it comes to an end, and that fans will be sadder than he is, since they will never see the likes of him again. \u201cI<\/span> think the greatest sadness will be yours, as you won\u2019t get to watch me play anymore. You should enjoy it now, because you\u2019ll never see the likes of me again,\u201d Zlatan said as reported by <em>Goal.<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Zlatan Ibrahimovic knows retiring will be very sad\u2026 for everybody else \ud83d\ude05 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/up4wUVRltD\">pic.twitter.com\/up4wUVRltD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 GOAL (@goal) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/goal\/status\/1506337155534237697?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 22, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Sweden legend has no intentions to retire this year but concedes that perhaps the time will come. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":266,"featured_media":33894,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[670,256,2286,422,2586,2761,3245,2417,2914,568,645,669],"class_list":["post-11424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football","tag-ac-milan","tag-ajax","tag-barcelona-fc","tag-inter-milan","tag-italian-serie-a","tag-juventus-fc","tag-la-galaxy","tag-malmo-ff","tag-manchester-united-fc","tag-paris-saint-germain","tag-sweden","tag-zlatan-ibrahimovic"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/266"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11424\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}