{"id":73467,"date":"2023-06-05T10:58:39","date_gmt":"2023-06-05T10:58:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/06\/05\/zlatan-ibrahimovic-announces-retirement-from-football\/"},"modified":"2023-06-05T10:58:39","modified_gmt":"2023-06-05T10:58:39","slug":"zlatan-ibrahimovic-announces-retirement-from-football","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/06\/05\/zlatan-ibrahimovic-announces-retirement-from-football\/","title":{"rendered":"Zlatan Ibrahimovic announces retirement from football"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/129991336_gettyimages-1258443087-696x392.jpg\"   alt=\"Ibrahimovic and many of his team-mates and the crowd were in tears as he announced his retirement on the pitch\" title=\"Ibrahimovic and many of his team-mates and the crowd were in tears as he announced his retirement on the pitch\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ibrahimovic and many of his team-mates and the crowd were in tears as he announced his retirement on the pitch<br \/>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>AC Milan\u2019s Zlatan Ibrahimovic has announced his retirement from football at the age of 41.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI say goodbye to football but not to you,\u201d the Swede told AC Milan\u2019s fans after being serenaded by the San Siro crowd following Sunday\u2019s final game of the season against Hellas Verona.<\/p>\n<p>Ibrahimovic had already announced he would leave the Italian club, with his contract expiring this month.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p>He scored 511 career goals and won league titles in four countries.<\/p>\n<p>Ibrahimovic arrived in Milan for his second spell with the club in early 2020, having won the Scudetto with them in 2011, and helped them win the title again last season.<\/p>\n<p>But he played only four times and started one match for the Serie A side this term \u2013 and scored one goal \u2013 following a series of injuries.<\/p>\n<p>The striker also retires as Sweden\u2019s all-time top scorer with 62 goals in 121 matches.<\/p>\n<p>He quit the national side after Euro 2016 but returned in 2021 for their unsuccessful World Cup qualifying campaign.<\/p>\n<p>            <!--  [embed]https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=videoseries[\/embed]<!--\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>--><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"esRvE06L0P0\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Medical: US Embassy to help scale up Zipline\u2019s operations after its impact in Ghana (2-6-23)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/esRvE06L0P0?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ibrahimovic and many of his team-mates and the crowd were in tears as he announced his retirement on the pitch AC Milan\u2019s Zlatan Ibrahimovic has announced his retirement from football at the age of 41. \u201cI say goodbye to football but not to you,\u201d the Swede told AC Milan\u2019s fans after being serenaded by the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":73468,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.2 - 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