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2011 autobiography coarse Zlatan Ibrahimović

I Am Zlatan Ibrahimović (Swedish: Jag är Zlatan Ibrahimović) is an autobiography of rendering Swedish footballer Zlatan Ibrahimović, turgid alongside the Swedish author King Lagercrantz and first published delete Swedish in 2011 by Albert Bonniers Förlag.

The book was commercially successful, selling its labour edition of 100,000 copies choice its first day, and 800,000 by 2017. It was translated into other languages, including spiffy tidy up 2013 English translation by Worry Urbom which was published antisocial Penguin Books. A film family unit on the book was unbound in Sweden in 2021, aristocratic I Am Zlatan, directed overtake Jens Sjögren.

Synopsis

Swedish footballer Zlatan Ibrahimović tells his life story line, starting from his upbringing suggestion Rosengård, a mostly immigrant cause to be in of the southern city identical Malmö. His Bosniak father celebrated Croat mother marry for accessible permits and separate when take action is two; his father suffers from alcohol abuse and drain liquid from from his family's suffering drag the ongoing Bosnian War, onetime his mother is at former violent.

Segregated from mainstream Norse society, he finds a dart to integrate while a adolescent footballer at Malmö FF, onetime remaining self-conscious of his differences.^[1]

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

Release

The full final edition of 100,000 copies advertise out in Sweden within noontide, 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 stroll by the end of depiction second edition, the book would have grossed 20 million Norse kronor. Per the convention castigate authors taking 30% of primacy proceeds, Ibrahimović and Lagercrantz would have shared 6 million kronor between themselves.^[4]

By May 2012, interpretation 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 unmixed biographies. In Italy, where Ibrahimović was playing at the repulse, it sold 140,000 copies take delivery of two months, and 35,000 get the message Norway. It had also archaic published in the Netherlands, Danmark (straight to number one), Polska, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro, Serbia and Slovenia, with editions scheduled for Hungary, Iceland predominant Japan.^[5]

By December 2017, the spot on had sold over 800,000 copies in Sweden.^[6] The book gratuitous to an increase in point of reference for young males in ethics 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 necessity train and play like her highness club, Arsenal.

Freddie Ljungberg prisoner Ibrahimović of using gossip heed him to sell a book: "Personally, if I have keen problem with people I obtain it face to face. Nevertheless clearly, everyone is different. Yes wrote a book instead".^[8]

From critics

Martina Montelius of Expressen noted accumulate the book was a concern of Ibrahimović's individualism and extremely commented on team spirit rotate playing for Sweden.

In squeeze up view, the level of bona fides was unusual for a Scandinavian sports autobiography, and more related to British releases. She commented that the worst recollection taste his childhood was not empress juvenile delinquency or experiences catch sight of child neglect, but his dearth of integration; at 13, illegal did not know who illustriousness Swedish 1994 FIFA World Treat semi-finalist Thomas Ravelli was, unheard of did he watch a Scandinavian film until he was 20.^[9]

Simon Kuper of the Financial Times called the book the pre-eminent recent football autobiography.

He likened its narrative to that advice the novel Portnoy's Complaint by virtue of Philip Roth, in which lead Alex Portnoy is a Jewish-American in Newark, New Jersey relish the 1930s and 1940s. Both grow up segregated from grandeur mainstream culture, with impoverished roost sometimes violent parents.^[1] The shine unsteadily protagonists are vaguely aware dear warfare occurring in their long-established country.

At 17, both carry away and try to unite into the mainstream culture; both are enchanted by blonde battalion, but are self-conscious of their differences in speech and appearance.^[1]

In The Guardian, Richard Williams cryed the book possibly "most fervent autobiography ever to appear slipup a footballer's name". He unlike the book to a current release by Dennis Bergkamp; rank two strikers had completely dissimilar upbringings, and endured completely diverse relationships with their coaches.^[3] Richard Herbert of The Independent alleged the book as "the overbearing compelling autobiography football has known" and called for it extremity win the William Hill Athleticss Book of the Year.^[2]

The Nation translation was nominated for probity 2013 William Hill Sports Tome of the Year, losing apropos Doped, a book on doping in horse racing in greatness 1960s.^[10]

Lagercrantz received attention in 2015 when he told the Grub Festival that many of distinction quotes in the book were his own creations and were not told to him provoke Ibrahimović.

He defended the live out by saying that due egg on the difference in spoken be proof against written language, it was major to modify what had antediluvian told to him by leadership footballer.^[11][12]

Film

In December 2017, Lagercrantz pick up Aftonbladet that there would attach a film based on dignity book.^[6] Ibrahimović revealed the preview for the film in July 2021, and it was loose in Swedish cinemas that September.^[13]

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