Former Youth Coaches Reveal How Zlatan Ibrahimovic Almost Gave Up on Football as a Teenager

If not for an intervention by a Malmo youth coach back in 1996, Zlatan Ibrahimovic's life could have been extremely different to the one he lives today, and the world may never have known the talents of the acrobatic Swedish forward. At 15-years-old an apparent goal drought while playing in the Malmo youth team had cause Ibrahimovic to fall out of love with the game and consider giving it all up to go to work on the docks instead. Manchester Evening News report that the injured striker - who...