Zlatan Ibrahimovic ,Craziest Superstar

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                    'You can take the boy out of the ghetto. But you can't take the ghetto out of the boy.'


Zlatan Ibrahimovic earns more than £11million a year - after tax. His name is registered as a trademark throughout the EU. He drives several Ferraris. And by his own admission, he 'doesn't give a damn about what people think'. Only one person has ever been able to calm or control him: his long-term girlfriend Helena Seger 

     

 

He is the most expensive footballer in history (having cost his various clubs a total of £150 million in transfer fees). 

He earns more than £11 million a year - after tax. His name is registered as a trademark throughout the EU. He drives several Ferraris. And by his own admission, he 'doesn't give a damn about what people think'. 

 Zlatan Ibrahimovic, the 31-year-old, 6ft 5in,15st Swedish footballer of Bosnian-Croatian descent, who, on Wednesday night, single-handedly destroyed, indeed humiliated England on the football pitch.

A former children's TV presenter and economics graduate from a smart middle-class background, the 42-year-old was a successful marketing executive with her own country house and Mercedes sports car when they met more than ten years ago outside a bureau de change at Malmo Central Station. 

It was hardly love at first sight. She (correctly) thought he was a crude, flashy yob. 

But Ibrahimovic, barely 20 but already a star player for Ajax Amsterdam, was captivated by the way she didn't gush over him like the girls his age.

She has tried to teach him manners and social graces. 

He, in return, has bought Helena a multi-million-pound home in Malmo, and a lifestyle of incredible luxury.

He was once asked what he had bought his partner for her birthday. Nonplussed, he replied: 'Nothing, she already has Zlatan.' 

This summer Ibrahimovic moved to Paris St Germain for a transfer fee of around £20 million, a move that took the total amount spent on him by his clubs to £150 million. 

His post-tax salary of £11.3 million was deemed 'disgusting' by the French finance minister, Jerome Cahuzac. 

'At a time when everyone around the world is tightening their belts,' he said, 'these figures are not impressive, they are indecent.' 

Ibrahimovic simply replied: 'I don't understand all the criticism. After all, the more money I earn, the more tax France receives.' 

This week, his club are top of the French league and on course to win the title. 

Such success is nothing new to Ibrahimovic. Between 2001 and 2011, every team he played for won their national championship. 

No other player in football history has ever matched that record. But then, few can match Zlatan Ibrahimovic's dark past, either. 

For, as he says: 'You can take the boy out of the ghetto. But you can't take the ghetto out of the boy.'