Zlatan Ibrahimovic has admitted he misses playing with Sweden national team and reveals what Mino Raiola told him when he returned to Milan in January.
The Swede expects to remain out of action for two weeks with a hamstring injury.
“My adrenaline boosted when Milan called me after they disgustingly lost in Bergamo [against Atalanta],” he told Aftonbladet.se.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic has admitted he misses playing with Sweden national team and reveals what Mino Raiola told him when he returned to Milan in January.
The Swede expects to remain out of action for two weeks with a hamstring injury.
“My adrenaline boosted when Milan called me after they disgustingly lost in Bergamo [against Atalanta],” he told Aftonbladet.se.
“It’s not about contracts, it’s about adrenaline. I wake up every morning at 7 or 8 am, I feel pain in my body but I train in the gym and do what I need to be fit. You must be motivated and set up your targets,” he continued.
“I told [Mino] Raiola: ‘Who needs me the most?’ he replied: ‘Milan, you are the only one who can make Milan what they were many years ago.’
“People don’t understand they motivate me when they say I am 39, I wake up every morning to prove I can make it.”
His first months at the club were not easy.
“I told who runs the club: ‘Don’t transmit your headache to those who go onto the pitch because otherwise we can’t work quietly.’ The first six months were difficult, I didn’t know if the coach would have stayed and I didn’t know my future either.”
Stefano Pioli was reportedly close to be sacked with Ralf Rangnick who was ready to pen a contract with the Rossoneri becoming their new head coach and technical director.
“The club wanted to change their philosophy, they had condemned the team before giving us a chance, now we are stronger.”
Ibra admitted he misses playing for his national team.
“If you ask me if I miss it I can only say yes. I want to play at the Friends Arena, see the yellow wall, I want to leave the pitch wearing the yellow shirt. If you don’t miss [this feeling] it means your career is over but mine has not come to an end yet.
“I don’t know [Janne] Andersson. I never judged him. What I said about him was a comment on the decisions he had made.”
Ibra criticized the Sweden national team coach back in September saying that not playing Juventus’ Dejan Kulusevski was ‘an absolute joke.’