Zlatan Ibrahimovic must accept his playing career is coming to an end

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‘Mr Carey is prescribed anti-inflammatories and pain killing medicine to help manage the significant pain caused by debilitating football injuries — including a shoulder that needs replacing and a neck injury that requires three discs to be replaced,’ he said upon taking up the Carey case. 

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Imagine a current Wigan Athletic player receiving his first England cap while playing in League One last season. Then imagine the same player getting called up for the World Cup while playing in the second tier after promotion. 

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He scored his first against Scotland in May 1989, before adding two more in a friendly against the old Czechoslovakia, before scoring against Tunisia which ultimately convinced Bobby Robson to take a gamble on the Wolves star.

Supporting and cheering the team from the sidelines — while earning several million euros per year — can help to encourage and galvanise his team-mates, but it is an outdated privilege more given him based on gratitude than merit. 

As teenagers, his fans grew up watching this slender, pkvgames playful youth without a tattoo in sight at Ajax and Juventus, but where they have now moved on with their lives, the 41-year-old still masquerades on the pitch as a teenager at the start of his career. 

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He has pain in his knees and by his own admission when he gets up in the morning he himself is nervous of what will happen to his body, but his love for the game far outweighs the logical part of his brain which tells him to retire. 

Today, Ibrahimovic is unable to play even a minute in Serie A, and instead spends his time making videos with Monza president Silvio Berlusconi.  Where once he was the first name on the star-studded guest lists of music festivals, he now must settle for a a role in adverts and commercials.

IBRA REFUSES TO ACCEPT THAT HE IS AGEING AC Milan owe Ibrahimovic a huge debt, and the charismatic forward played his part as the Rossoneri won the Scudetto in 2021-22, but he is not the same player he once was, and much like Oscar Wilde’s Dorian Grey, refuses to believe that he is ageing. 

A great personality and technical talent though he may be, Zlatan Ibrahimovic fails to realise that he is fast approaching the end of a long and troubled career at the top of the game, never having won football’s greatest prizes like the Ballon d’Or or the Champions League.