Ibra branded ‘Judas’
Barely a month ago, the great and the good of Malmo assembled outside the main football stadium to pay homage to the local boy done good. The unveiling of Zlatan Ibrahimovic’s statue, which measures 3.5 metres and weighs 500kg, was attended by hundreds where Ibra was cited as an inspiration by the city’s political high rollers. One controversial investment and bombastic press interview later, the statue has been vandalised, ‘Judas’ has been daubed on Ibrahimovic’s home in Stockholm with the incident reported to the police as a suspected hate crime by Zlatan himself. “Zlatan has burned his bridges with Malmo with a nuclear bomb. The fans are taking this very personally,” Kaveh Hosseinpour, vice president of the Malmo FF supporters club, tells Goal. Kaveh Hosseinpour said that when he heard that Ibra was buying a 25 per cent stake in Hammarby he, at first, thought it was April 1. But it was when the striker told Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet that Hammarby has “the greatest potential to become the biggest in Scandinavia” that the blood pressure of the Malmo faithful really began to rise. –Agencies
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