I Am Zlatan: My Story On and Off the Field

ISBN: 081298692X

Author: Ibrahimovic, Zlatan

Condition: Used

Daring, flashy, innovative, volatile-no matter what they call him, Zlatan Ibrahimovic is one of soccers brightest stars. A top-scoring striker and captain of the Swedish national team, he has dominated the worlds most storied teams, including Ajax, Juventus, Inter Milan, Barcelona, AC Milan, and Paris Saint-Germain. But his life wasnt always so charmed.Born to Balkan immigrants who divorced when he was a toddler, Zlatan learned self-reliance from his rough-and-tumble neighborhood. While his father, a Bosnian Muslim, drank to forget the war back home, his mothers household was engulfed in chaos. Soccer was Zlatans release. Mixing in street moves and trick plays, Zlatan was a wild talent who rode to practice on stolen bikes and relished showing up the rich kids-opponents and teammates alike. Goal by astonishing goal, the brash young outsider grew into an unlikely prodigy and, by his early twenties, an international phenomenon.Told as only the man himself could tell it, featuring stories of friendships and feuds with the biggest names in the sport, I Am Zlatan is a wrenching, uproarious, and ultimately redemptive tale for underdogs everywhere.Praise for I Am ZlatanTerrific . . . Far more insightful than your typical jock memoir, Ibras book tells his story of growing up as the son of immigrants in Sweden and pulls no punches when it comes to his opinions of some of the biggest names in the game.-Sports IllustratedThe most compelling autobiography ever to appear under a footballers name.-The GuardianThe story of Zlatan-from his days as an immigrant kid juggling a soccer ball so he wont get bullied to his emergence as the genius player who scored the greatest goal ever-is as compelling and fancy-footed as his game.-Aleksandar Hemon, National Book Award finalist and author of The Lazarus ProjectI love this book. I love it because its so much bigger than soccer. I Am Zlatan is a story of hope and grit and what an immigrant kid who comes from nothing can accomplish with hard work and belief in himself. Its also a beautiful window into our new, more open, more diverse world.-Marcus Samuelsson, bestselling author of Yes, ChefProbably the bestselling European immigrants tale since Zadie Smiths White Teeth . . . Once you get past the obligatory snigger prompted by the phrase footballers autobiography, you can see that Zlatans book strangely resembles an earlier immigrants tale: Portnoys Complaint.-Financial TimesHe is skillful. He is outspoken. He is Zlatan.-The New York TimesThe best sports autobiography in years.-PolicyMic

• Born to Balkan immigrants who divorced when he was a toddler, Zlatan learned self reliance from his rough and tumble neighborhood. While his father, a Bosnian Muslim, drank to forget the war back home, his mother's household was engulfed in chaos. Soccer was Zlatan's release. Mixing in street moves and trick plays, Zlatan was a wild talent who rode to practice on stolen bikes and relished showing up the rich kids, opponents and teammates alike. | Goal by astonishing goal, the brash young outsider grew into an unlikely prodigy and, by his early twenties, an international phenomenon.   Told as only the man himself could tell it, featuring stories of friendships and feuds with the biggest names in the sport, I Am Zlatan is a wrenching, uproarious, and ultimately redemptive tale for underdogs everywhere. 400 pages.