The Most Interesting Paris Saint-Germain Player Is Not Beckham

At age 19, he joined Ajax Amsterdam. Describing a trick in one preseason friendly, he said, “I went left, he went left. I went right, he went right. I went left again, he went to buy a hot dog.” But he soon revealed his ignorance of what “streetballers” disparagingly call “field soccer.” The sport rarely suits them. Ajax fans came to wonder whether their club had accidentally bought the wrong Zlatan Ibrahimovic. He didn’t defend, couldn’t head despite his height and rarely bothered scoring. Defenders who marked him had a nasty habit of breaking their noses.Yet his rough-around-the-edges qualities also made him special. Most Swedish soccer players …
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