"If the virus doesn't go to Zlatan, Zlatan will go to the virus." With the art and the way we know him, Zlatan Ibrahimovic had entered the battle against the coronavirus by launching last week a large fundraiser, "Kick the virus away", to help health services in Lombardy. If we are to believe La Gazzetta dello Sport , the Swedish colossus might still have to admit defeat, in a way, in the face of the devastating expansion of the Covid-19. "Ibra", who had signed up for six months with AC Milan last January, would indeed ask serious questions about his future while Serie A is suspended "indefinitely".
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Returning to Sweden before confinement, the former PSG striker, 38, would not rule out the idea of hanging up the crampons after 22 seasons with professionals. If everything suggests that the contracts of players expiring on June 30 can be extended in order to go to the end of the season, if it were to resume and spill over to July or August, this may not be enough to convince Ibrahimovic to return to Lombardy.
A managerial career alongside Raiola?
According to Gazzetta , the proposal of his historic agent, the influential Mino Raiola, to work alongside him as a manager in Stockholm could seduce him sooner than expected. The recent dismissal of AC Milan football director Zvonimir Boban and the possible departures of technical director Paolo Maldini and coach Stefano Pioli, the three men who convinced him to return to Milan, would weigh heavily in the balance. Without knowing it, the man with 368 goals (including 156 with PSG) in 555 club matches may have bowed out on March 8 during a defeat by Milan against Genoa (1-2). By scoring the only goal for his team. The last of an XXL career?
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