Gattuso said before receiving Napoli at the San Paolo that Ibrahimovic is better than when he was 30 years old.
He said it before the Swede turned into a nightmare for his team, punishing him with two more goals for the final 1-3.
Although he had to retire injured.
There are eleven goals in ten games with Milan so far this season.
In Serie A he has made ten of the 19 of the team.
He felt a puncture in the back of his right thigh in the clash against Napoli and will have to stop a couple of games, but at 39 he leads the ranking of top scorers, with two more than Cristiano.
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But the world of football was very close to being unable to enjoy Ibra's third youth.
This has been recognized by the Swedish footballer himself in a wide interview in his country.
And, curiously, everything has to be thanked Mino Raiola, his agent.
The representative struck a chord with the striker, stung his pride and, fortunately, it was the fuse for what is happening right now.
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I wanted to open a new chapter in my life. To be with my family every day, following the day-to-day of my children. Then Mino Raiola came and told me: 'You have to close your career in Europe! You have to show that you still you are at a high level, what can you do! Play only six months in Milan, then you can quit. It's too easy to finish your career in the United States. "
The agent's words were a spring for the forward account in 'Aftonbladet'.
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It goes without saying that Raiola knows how to ignite the Swede's boastful character, although it is also true that he adapts and that his extensive knowledge of the game is helping him save efforts to be equal or more effective.
"I feel alive, I know that I can play and do what I am capable of. The results speak for themselves, but without hard work nothing is achieved. At my age you need a mentality, in addition to talent. But everything is in the head: if you want, you can. I feel good, every day that passes I feel better and more complete. I am different from what I was ten or five years ago, I think I have the intelligence to adapt my body to what I can do now.
People say I don't run a lot, but I choose the best way to run and help the team.
I understand how I can be more useful. If I could run 90 minutes without stopping I would, but I can't. I'm honest with myself, I need more time to recover after a sprint, but I choose when to do it and I decide when I have to sacrifice myself. Be smart ", analyzes in a very interesting way an Ibra that has suffered the effects of the coronavirus in its flesh.
"It wasn't serious, just a couple of weeks. They made me stop training, I asked a lot of questions. They took three tests again to be sure, so I stayed home. After three days I still had a headache, but no I understood if it was because of being confined, I repeated the same things all the time. Then I started having back pain when I slept: I woke up at three in the morning, I had to take pills: I'm against it, but after ten minutes the pain It had disappeared. On the fifth day I no longer felt the flavors, neither food nor coffee. I started to train only one week after the positive: before I could not, although I had a plan to train at home like everyone who tests positive. What I wanted is for my heart to work and my heart rate to increase. I had no other symptoms. I regained my taste, but my sense of smell is still not 100 percent. It is a nuisance, but it could also be from a cold, "he explains.
Now he is working to recover from muscle problems, although he has calmed down his hobby.
"It is not something serious, I think I will be in one or two weeks," he sentenced.
Ibra, seeing his form, has dropped through the networks that he would like to return to the Swedish team, from which he retired. The Nordic coach has picked up the glove, but demands that the footballer say so clearly. Ibra has thrown the glove on him in the same interview.
"It's something that has to come from him. Because if he thinks I'm a distraction, then I don't care. If he thinks I can contribute, then I'll think about it. I want to be at the Friends Arena, I want to see the entire Yellow Wall again. when I enter with the shirt. If I miss it? Obviously: if someone does not miss it, that means they have finished their career. And I have not finished yet, "he says.