5 Things You Learn Reading Zlatan Ibrahimovic's Autobiography

4. The Malmo Youth Team Tried To Ban Him From Playing

PSG's Zlatan Ibrahimovic
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Zlatan has always been known for his fiery on field personality and for almost coming to blows with people on many occasions. This has been a constant factor of his personality since his youth team days at Malmo FF.

Zlatan joined the Malmo FF youth squad in 1995 and was, according to his book, always agruing with teammates and the referee. His attitude and fire led the parents of Zlatan's teammates to sign a petition, asking for Zlatan to be banned from the team.

However, when youth team coach Roland Andersson discovered the petition he ripped it up in front of the parents who had signed it and allowed Zlatan to carry on playing. Zlatan put a lot of the parents' attitudes down to fact that he was a council estate kid and they didn't want their children sharing a pitch with him because he wasn't as rich as them.

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