Ibrahimovic - is there a more humble sportsman?

i like his quote zlatan doesnt do additions when wenger wanted him for a trial

he seems a funny guy

auditions*

Sod Zlatan. How on earth does Henrik Larson come two places behind Tomas Brolin?!

what place did larsson come i was trying to find him

golden boot winner , champions league winner , scored in world cup ,european championships etc

scored v rangers also, that used to be an achievement

many v them feckers

brolin retired at 28 , though he was around longer than that

1 Borg
2 Ibra
3 Jan-Ove Waldner? (table tennis)
4 Annika Sorenstam
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10 Some canoeist!!
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26 7-time Grand Slam tennis winner Mats Wilander
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30 6-time Grand Slam tennis winner Stefan Edberg
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35 Tomas Brolin
37 Henrik Larsson
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82 Henrik Stenson

Full list here:

http://www.dn.se/sport/150-framsta-svenska-idrottarna-genom-tiderna/

There must be some method in the order of this list, and I'm sure a Swedish newspaper are in a better position to comment than me, but it makes the controversy about Lewis Hamilton-Rory McIlroy last week look very ordinary.

Dec 23, 2014 -- 3:54PM, TheChaser wrote:

what place did larsson come i was trying to find himgolden boot winner , champions league winner , scored in world cup ,european championships etc

Quite. While Ibra is funny with his comments, I wouldn't necessarily have him their top footballer.

larsson was an overall a world class player , wont see him sort in scotland again

id have larsson on my team before ibra

I seen god live in the flesh right from the first game when he came on as a sub gave Charney the ball to let hibs beat us right up till his last game when he was humble and crying and was also behind the goals when he scored against us for Barcelona and never celebrated

What a man

The problem with Larsson is he scored most his goals in Scotland, where Bjorn Borg would have been top scorer

larsson scored plenty in europe

even at helsiborgs he got about 11 in a season when he as 34-35

was 34-35*

larssons goals to games for celtic in europe is top class

in 2003 we got to the final with hi scoring in basically every round plus 2 in the final

waldner is a bit of a legend in table tennis


brolin was a very good player but got distracted by cakes and the like

Dare to take risks, dare to Zlatan

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_eYQSk-rZo

surely ingemar stenmark should be in the top 4

As a Brit living in Sweden, you can't help but notice Zlatan's face everywhere. I seem to remember him being asked to pick his dream team 11, and when he got to the front two he picked Messi, who he called a "genius" and then himself, who he called simply "GOD"

There is a thin line between arrogance and confidence and he clearly crosses it, but he does so with a smile that makes you kinda enjoy it along with him.

Compare that to Ronaldo for example (not in Zlatans dream team), who simply comes across as arrogant because he is so desperate to be admired. Very different energy and much less likeable in my eyes.

Ronaldo is an arrogant cu nt also

Sven will be gutted, when i return i will have copied and pasted his achievements with England.

Bjorn Borg my @rse.

Björn Borg is a true Swede.

graham taylor was a turnip = does that qualify him!!

If they did the top Belgian sports people of all time Hercule Poirot would probably get in the top ten.

TinTin would get my vote.

carolina kluft wins top swedish sports person hands down.

Borg was the greatest sportsman of all time, and he was able to play under the greatest pressure and make the right decisions, only Jack Nicklaus had the same sort of brain!...no footballer apart from Greaves and Muller had such a brain, Nicklaus never made a wrong decision when it really mattered.

ibra the top striker in europe for a decade imo

on a par with henry and the fat ronaldo for me.

Behind messi and ronaldo tho?

id have larsson on my team before ibra

Probably why you're posting on there rather than managing a professional football team then!

Dec 23, 2014 -- 10:25PM, clacherholiday2 wrote:

ibra the top striker in europe for a decade imo on a par with henry and the fat ronaldo for me.

What is so funny kelly?

Think it is very clear

Not really, he has a fair claim. Its hardly a laughable suggestion.

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Behind messi and ronaldo tho?

Yep and Zidane for all modern football.

Zlatans on the next level down but streets ahead of everyone else.

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    Dec 23, 2014 -- 10:25PM, clacherholiday2 wrote:


    ibra the top striker in europe for a decade imo on a par with henry and the fat ronaldo for me.


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Dec 23, 2014 -- 7:11PM, funkymonkey wrote:

As a Brit living in Sweden, you can't help but notice Zlatan's face everywhere. I seem to remember him being asked to pick his dream team 11, and when he got to the front two he picked Messi, who he called a "genius" and then himself, who he called simply "GOD" There is a thin line between arrogance and confidence and he clearly crosses it, but he does so with a smile that makes you kinda enjoy it along with him.Compare that to Ronaldo for example (not in Zlatans dream team), who simply comes across as arrogant because he is so desperate to be admired. Very different energy and much less likeable in my eyes.

well put funkymonkey - you've exactly expressed what i was struggling to get down.  Zlatan is clealy on the wind-up and having a laugh with us.  Ronnie (genius tho' he is) is deadly serious in his own self-appraisal, tantrums and tears bubbling under.   Zlatan - he no cry; he man!

Can anyone name a current club side that would have Zlatan Ibrahimovic on the subs bench because he wasn't good enough for the first team?

Jesper Parnevik is not on the list.  I am disappoint.

I thought he was Turkish..