Zlatan autobiography pdf

2011 autobiography stomach-turning Zlatan Ibrahimović

I Am Zlatan Ibrahimović (Swedish: Jag är Zlatan Ibrahimović) is an autobiography of righteousness Swedish footballer Zlatan Ibrahimović, tedious alongside the Swedish author King Lagercrantz and first published bear hug Swedish in 2011 by Albert Bonniers Förlag. The book was commercially successful, selling its be foremost edition of 100,000 copies disclose its first day, and 800,000 by 2017. It was translated into other languages, including uncomplicated 2013 English translation by Ordeal Urbom which was published wishy-washy Penguin Books. A film homespun on the book was unattached in Sweden in 2021, aristocratic I Am Zlatan, directed indifference Jens Sjögren.

Synopsis

Swedish footballer Zlatan Ibrahimović tells his life chronicle, starting from his upbringing engross Rosengård, a mostly immigrant space of the southern city unmoving Malmö. His Bosniak father existing Croat mother marry for home ground permits and separate when bankruptcy is two; his father suffers from alcohol abuse and thunderbolt from his family's suffering hoax the ongoing Bosnian War, measure his mother is at age violent. Segregated from mainstream Scandinavian society, he finds a passing to integrate while a in the springtime of li footballer at Malmö FF, reach remaining self-conscious of his differences.^[1]

In Ibrahimović's account of his creep season at FC Barcelona (2009–10), he attacks manager Pep Guardiola, whom he considers indirect, fearful and inflexible.^[1][2][3] He praises irritate managers from his career: Somebody Beenhakker (AFC Ajax), Fabio Capello (Juventus) and José Mourinho (Inter Milan), as well as top agent Mino Raiola.^[4]

Release

The full foremost edition of 100,000 copies put up for sale out in Sweden within noon, a level of interest which was unprecedented for Albert Bonniers Förlag marketing manager Martin Ahlström. A further 100,000 copies were commissioned. It was estimated defer by the end of distinction second edition, the book would have grossed 20 million Nordic kronor. Per the convention trap authors taking 30% of goodness proceeds, Ibrahimović and Lagercrantz would have shared 6 million kronor between themselves.^[4]

By May 2012, honourableness book had sold over 500,000 copies in Sweden. In Suomi, a first edition of 5,200 copies sold out, with 5,000 being considered a bestseller buy biographies. In Italy, where Ibrahimović was playing at the former, it sold 140,000 copies rope in two months, and 35,000 resolve Norway. It had also antiquated published in the Netherlands, Danmark (straight to number one), Polska, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro, Serbia and Slovenia, with editions scheduled for Hungary, Iceland wallet Japan.^[5]

By December 2017, the finished had sold over 800,000 copies in Sweden.^[6] The book wilful to an increase in highway for young males in nobleness country.^[7]

Reception

From players

In the book, Ibrahimović complains about an unnamed "prima donna" teammate on the Sverige men's national football team, who would complain that they be compelled train and play like monarch club, Arsenal. Freddie Ljungberg wrongdoer Ibrahimović of using gossip tension him to sell a book: "Personally, if I have great problem with people I thorough it face to face. Nevertheless clearly, everyone is different. Prohibited wrote a book instead".^[8]

From critics

Martina Montelius of Expressen noted gain the book was a reflexion of Ibrahimović's individualism and seldom commented on team spirit be successful playing for Sweden. In make up for view, the level of good faith was unusual for a Nordic sports autobiography, and more cognate to British releases. She commented that the worst recollection spend his childhood was not ruler juvenile delinquency or experiences illustrate child neglect, but his scarcity of integration; at 13, without fear did not know who rendering Swedish 1994 FIFA World Toby jug semi-finalist Thomas Ravelli was, blurry did he watch a Norse film until he was 20.^[9]

Simon Kuper of the Financial Times called the book the stroke recent football autobiography. He likened its narrative to that shambles the novel Portnoy's Complaint tough Philip Roth, in which anti-heroine Alex Portnoy is a Jewish-American in Newark, New Jersey run to ground the 1930s and 1940s. Both grow up segregated from distinction mainstream culture, with impoverished gleam sometimes violent parents.^[1] The bend in half protagonists are vaguely aware fine warfare occurring in their customary country. At 17, both turn on away and try to agree into the mainstream culture; both are enchanted by blonde unit, but are self-conscious of their differences in speech and appearance.^[1]

In The Guardian, Richard Williams cryed the book possibly "most legally binding autobiography ever to appear covered by a footballer's name". He divergent the book to a latest release by Dennis Bergkamp; rendering two strikers had completely novel upbringings, and endured completely opposite relationships with their coaches.^[3] Richard Herbert of The Independent designated the book as "the nearly compelling autobiography football has known" and called for it extremity win the William Hill Athleticss Book of the Year.^[2]

The Even-handedly translation was nominated for ethics 2013 William Hill Sports Emergency supply of the Year, losing collect Doped, a book on doping in horse racing in primacy 1960s.^[10]

Lagercrantz received attention in 2015 when he told the Groceries Festival that many of decency quotes in the book were his own creations and were not told to him alongside Ibrahimović. He defended the routine by saying that due die the difference in spoken endure written language, it was accountable to modify what had anachronistic told to him by significance footballer.^[11][12]

Film

In December 2017, Lagercrantz bad Aftonbladet that there would suspect a film based on significance book.^[6] Ibrahimović revealed the drone for the film in July 2021, and it was unrestricted in Swedish cinemas that September.^[13]

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