Monday, 28 December, 2020 - 09:30
Zlatan Ibrahimovic celebrates scoring Milan’s goal at Napoli last month. He scored twice in a 3-1 win.
Photograph: Ciro de Luca/Reuters London- Bart Vlietstra
Sometimes Mino Raiola will walk over his client Zlatan Ibrahimovic. “While he’s doing a workout I just stand on him for a moment,” says the player’s agent, “and I’m not the lightest person. But Zlatan just continues with his push-ups.”
The Sweden striker is now 39 and for the vast majority of players who have played at the very top of the game over a long career retiring from a rigid training regime would be long overdue at such an age. But Ibrahimovic is playing at Milan this season as if he had just entered the spring of his career.