Zlatan Ibrahimović on Playing for LA Galaxy, His Nicknames & The World Cup

with this notable role in this first match he made this city interested and once again from LA Galaxy, please welcome, it was Latin Ibrahimovic, thank you for coming, enjoy your great immersion, here I am, when you first arrived, I thought : "oh, we have to have this." guy on the show and then I saw I was looking in the LA Times and you got an advertiser. Many athletes take out a full page ad. Usually when they leave, they thank the city, you know, for everything, but you pulled one out. Also like you, just when you started and he says: "Dear Los Angeles, you're welcome." I mean, it's been a couple of years.

I'm Myers' boss in Los Angeles and I wanted to give them a gift and I was. I was thinking for a long time, you know, and then one day I thought I should turn myself in, obviously you don't and maybe this is just a strange preconceived notion, but you don't seem quintessentially Swedish to me. I know you're Swedish, but Swedish. They are not braggarts in general yes, they are very nice is that what they asked you to leave the country no, I am not the typical Swede, but I put Sweden on the map, so you have many

nicknames

.

I was going, I was reading. through a lot of

nicknames

of yours, which one do you like? Are there any you really like? I mean my name in the Balkan language means gold, so I would prefer that, but I know there are people who have difficulty pronouncing it than that. So in the end someone was like, 'Hey, blah, and people call me blah, so yeah, that's not cool, now he's the lion, so the wine is good, but you know, Snoop Dogg already has a lion, I think you should consider what is taken and what is not?

They could sue you. Who knows what could happen here? You know, I have a nickname idea for you. I want to manage a swamp and some of the Swedish fish. Everyone loves Swedish fish here. I know, I mean at home you probably just call. they fish but here we call them those little red fish and people do, we love them a lot I like something more powerful more powerful there is nothing more powerful than a set of fish I will think of something else for you, it does something so Well, in your first game you score a goal, it was incredible.

I'm here long before you take the field. What you have in your head. I'm going to score in my first game. I mean, I had a vision before I came. I said when I came and I know there are some earthquakes in Los Angeles but this was me walking into Los Angeles I wanted to make a statement I wanted to make a statement and I want to say every movie has a good start yeah have you been? Surprised to learn that most movies are terrible, this one hasn't surprised you because I know the way you've scored in your first game with almost every team you've ever been on, which is crazy.

I'm not going to go like this. like not only was it special for polysemics, how come not only here in Los Angeles, but I know you went to Chicago and it was crazy that you could barely get out of the airport? Is that a surprise? Did you expect this in the United States, I mean, in Europe soccer is huge, so everywhere I went, people go crazy and stuff and people told me that when you come to Los Angeles, don't worry, you can walk around the streets and that, but since the day. one, no, yeah, he's everywhere, it's my fault because if you play like me, I mean, do you play other sports?

Do you feel like you could have been a professional athlete

playing

basketball or Nada? My confidence is what people are. very loud yes I realized that yes the mental part of me is bulletproof so whatever I do I would be who I am today so this does this just like I chose football and I'm sorry for that offense that is encouraging. for the other sports because it would be the same that your teammates will feel in your shadow they will feel offended by your confidence and by all the attention you receive no no I don't make them superstars like a major so anything they achieve they can really read to you.

I will make them big. You know there has been a lot of speculation about whether or not you would play in the World Cup. Are you going to play in the World Cup? the World Cup yes, what will you wear in the World Cup? Will you have heels on the soles of your shoes or will they be normal shoes? I just said I'm going to the World Cup because they say more people will hang up on me. Worrying about what I said sounds like an extreme reaction because you want to play a soccer game. I mean, I'll do a cup without me, it wouldn't be a World Cup, so I want to say people are very nice to me.

You see the public there, yes, of course. Do you know you're not from here? You have to understand that it is very unusual to have this kind of enthusiasm for anything related to football. I mean, for the most part, soccer here is a game we wish our kids didn't play, so we did. I don't have to go to the weekend area, oh I don't see any of you on the field on Saturday, but have you really heard, first of all, football, football, we call it for you, we call it football , get used to it. we call it football, yes football is the biggest port in the

world

, yes imagine now when you play football and you are at the top how you feel like the biggest sport and being the best player in the biggest sport It has to be, obviously, the maximum.

Yeah this is how I feel, you should really give talks to people and just like people have confidence in themselves because I really feel more like a man just sitting around, it's great to have you here in the

galaxy

playing

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