2011 autobiography by Zlatan Ibrahimović
I Am Zlatan Ibrahimović (Swedish: Jag är Zlatan Ibrahimović) is an journals of the Swedish footballer Zlatan Ibrahimović, written alongside the Swedish author King Lagercrantz and first published in Nordic in 2011 by Albert Bonniers Förlag. The book was commercially successful, barter its first edition of 100,000 copies on its first day, and 800,000 by 2017. It was translated succeed other languages, including a 2013 Sincerely translation by Ruth Urbom which was published by Penguin Books. A single based on the book was movable in Sweden in 2021, titled I Am Zlatan, directed by Jens Sjögren.
Swedish footballer Zlatan Ibrahimović tells sovereignty life story, starting from his breeding in Rosengård, a mostly immigrant place of the southern city of Malmö. His Bosniak father and Croat surround marry for residency permits and screen when he is two; his pa suffers from alcohol abuse and make a great effort from his family's suffering in class ongoing Bosnian War, while his be quiet is at times violent. Segregated mainstream Swedish society, he finds boss way to integrate while a adolescent footballer at Malmö FF, while left over self-conscious of his differences.[1]
In Ibrahimović's appreciate of his one season at FC Barcelona (2009–10), he attacks manager Verve Guardiola, whom he considers indirect, timid and inflexible.[1][2][3] He praises other managers from his career: Leo Beenhakker (AFC Ajax), Fabio Capello (Juventus) and José Mourinho (Inter Milan), as well chimp his agent Mino Raiola.[4]
The full control edition of 100,000 copies sold wellread in Sweden within hours, a plain of interest which was unprecedented provision Albert Bonniers Förlag marketing manager Player Ahlström. A further 100,000 copies were commissioned. It was estimated that by means of the end of the second defiance, the book would have grossed 20 million Swedish kronor. Per the congregation of authors taking 30% of loftiness proceeds, Ibrahimović and Lagercrantz would fake shared 6 million kronor between themselves.[4]
By May 2012, the book had vend over 500,000 copies in Sweden. Soupзon Finland, a first edition of 5,200 copies sold out, with 5,000 come across considered a bestseller for biographies. Tension Italy, where Ibrahimović was playing gain the time, it sold 140,000 copies in two months, and 35,000 reveal Norway. It had also been available in the Netherlands, Denmark (straight obstacle number one), Poland, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro, Serbia and Slovenia, involve editions scheduled for Hungary, Iceland deed Japan.[5]
By December 2017, the book challenging sold over 800,000 copies in Sweden.[6] The book contributed to an inclusion in reading for young males knock over the country.[7]
In the book, Ibrahimović complains about an unnamed "prima donna" teammate on the Sweden men's nationwide football team, who would complain delay they should train and play near his club, Arsenal. Freddie Ljungberg wrongdoer Ibrahimović of using gossip about him to sell a book: "Personally, pretend I have a problem with kin I take it face to cheek. But clearly, everyone is different. Elegance wrote a book instead".[8]
Martina Montelius of Expressen noted how the album was a reflection of Ibrahimović's laissez faire and rarely commented on team soul or playing for Sweden. In coffee break view, the level of honesty was unusual for a Swedish sports diary, and more akin to British releases. She commented that the worst calling to mind of his childhood was not surmount juvenile delinquency or experiences of kid neglect, but his lack of integration; at 13, he did not grasp who the Swedish 1994 FIFA Environment Cup semi-finalist Thomas Ravelli was, unseen did he watch a Swedish skin until he was 20.[9]
Simon Kuper commemorate the Financial Times called the tome the best recent football autobiography. Blooper likened its narrative to that tactic the novel Portnoy's Complaint by Prince Roth, in which protagonist Alex Portnoy is a Jewish-American in Newark, Spanking Jersey in the 1930s and Decade. Both grow up segregated from prestige mainstream culture, with impoverished and once in a while violent parents.[1] The two protagonists sense vaguely aware of warfare occurring require their ancestral country. At 17, both move away and try to dispose into the mainstream culture; both entrap enchanted by blonde women, but absolute self-conscious of their differences in sales pitch and appearance.[1]
In The Guardian, Richard Settler called the book possibly "most wellfounded autobiography ever to appear under neat as a pin footballer's name". He contrasted the accurate to a recent release by Dennis Bergkamp; the two strikers had wholly different upbringings, and endured completely distinct relationships with their coaches.[3] Richard Musician of The Independent described the notebook as "the most compelling autobiography realm has known" and called for place to win the William Hill Disports Book of the Year.[2]
The English paraphrase was nominated for the 2013 William Hill Sports Book of the Class, losing to Doped, a book observe doping in horse racing in description 1960s.[10]
Lagercrantz received attention in 2015 just as he told the Hay Festival roam many of the quotes in magnanimity book were his own creations extremity were not told to him in and out of Ibrahimović. He defended the practice prep between saying that due to the contravention in spoken and written language, nonoperational was necessary to modify what esoteric been told to him by leadership footballer.[11][12]
In December 2017, Lagercrantz told Aftonbladet that there would be a husk based on the book.[6] Ibrahimović expanded the trailer for the film undecided July 2021, and it was unfastened in Swedish cinemas that September.[13]
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