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FOX Analyst Zlatan Ibrahimović goes online to answer the internet’s questions. The Swedish former footballer responds to questions on Quora, Reddit and X, as well as fact-checking Wikipedia and replying to YouTube, TikTok and Instagram comments.Credits:Director: Kristen DeVoreDirector of Photography: Grant BellEditor: Gerard ZarraTalent: Zlatan IbrahimovicProducer: Sam DennisLine Producer: Jen SantosProduction Manager: Evie RoopTalent Booker: Paige KefferCamera Operator: Lucas VilicichGaffer: Shay Eberle-GunstSound Mixer: Lila RowelProduction Assistant: Lauren Boucher; Hollie OrtizPost Production Supervisor: Jess DunnPost Production Coordinator: Rob LombardiSupervising Editor: Stella ShortinoAdditional Editor: Brady JacksonExecutive Producer: Cara MarceanteDirector, Creative: Nick CollettDirector, Programming: Jeremy Clowney
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00:00How many red cards has Zlatan Ibrahimovic gotten?
00:03A lot. I don't know how many, but a lot.
00:06We found 14.
00:07That's a lot.
00:08What's up, GQ? This is Zlatan Ibrahimovic. I'm going undercover on the internet.
00:14It's actually me.
00:17Instagram.
00:20This man was built for American TV.
00:22I am American TV.
00:24I think American TV is Zlatan's audience.
00:28Europe is a different audience.
00:30But I don't care. I'm still Zlatan.
00:33What I like about being an analyst is that I'm not a professional and it's not my job,
00:36so I cannot do mistakes.
00:38So whatever I do, it's world class.
00:41Replied.
00:41But in eFootball, there is your height only 195, but you say 197.
00:49My word is more important than the eFootball.
00:52Okay? 197, not 195.
00:55Bro, did Messi love you back like you love him?
00:58Who said I love him?
01:00I like him.
01:01It's a big difference.
01:03No, no.
01:03He's fantastic.
01:04He's amazing.
01:05And he loves me also.
01:07TikTok.
01:11Would Zlatan or Bruce Lee win in a fight?
01:13Hmm, good question.
01:15I mean, he was a small guy.
01:17He moves like a ninja, but I move also like a ninja.
01:20I don't know.
01:21I don't know.
01:22Good question.
01:23We will never know.
01:25Be water.
01:26That's what you say, yeah?
01:28Sometimes it doesn't matter what you want.
01:31Just how you played.
01:32What's the difference between good player and great?
01:35It's a big difference.
01:37A good player is normal.
01:38Great is unnormal.
01:40If you didn't understand yourself, you should study more.
01:43Quora.
01:46How many languages does Zlatan Ibrahimovic speak?
01:50Quanto voi?
01:51Humonga Vildo?
01:53Com si, com sa?
01:54Que pasa?
01:55Five, six languages.
01:57I communicate.
01:58I don't know if I speak well.
02:00Where could you put Zlatan Ibrahimovic in the list of the all-time greatest players?
02:05Number one.
02:06My idol is Ronaldo the Phenomenal.
02:08For me, he was just something else.
02:11I look up to him and I try to copy him.
02:13Nobody was like him.
02:15Then I would put Maradona, Zidane, Messi, obviously.
02:19Van Basten.
02:20That's my top five.
02:21In general, I'll put Jordan, Mohamed Ali, Roger and Djokovic.
02:26Same position.
02:28Zlatan.
02:28Tom Brady.
02:29You like it or not, it's not my problem.
02:32How would you compare Zlatan and Jamal with and without the ball?
02:36It's two different players.
02:38One is left-footed and one is right-footed.
02:40Both can use their weaker foot if we have a weak foot, which I don't believe we have.
02:46I'm 40-something.
02:48He's phenomenal and he's only 18, so you cannot compare.
02:52Every player has his own story and legacy.
02:56Posted.
02:56How can I have full confidence like Zlatan Ibrahimovic?
03:01Don't give up.
03:02You might fail, but fail is part of the success.
03:05If you don't have enough power in that, lean to my story.
03:09And my story is going to transform power and confidence to you.
03:13Why is Zlatan Ibrahimovic a savage and a badass player?
03:17I'm just being myself.
03:19I go with confidence.
03:21People call it arrogant, but that's ignorant people.
03:24Intelligent people call it confidence.
03:26Confidence is when you do something you believe in what you do because you know you're good at it.
03:30Arrogance is you think you're above other ones just by the mindset.
03:34Next.
03:35How many red cards has Zlatan Ibrahimovic gotten?
03:38A lot.
03:39I don't know how many, but a lot.
03:41We found 14.
03:43That's a lot.
03:45Reddit.
03:47Let's go Reddit.
03:49Zlatan Ibrahimovic announces that he will fight Tyson Fury on August 1st in Dublin.
03:55Let's see what happens.
03:56I just have to gain 30 kilos and then maybe.
04:02Fuck Ibra for what?
04:03It's obviously just an ad.
04:06You really believe Ibra is fighting Tyson Fury?
04:08Why shouldn't you believe?
04:10I will not turn down a challenge.
04:13He has a black belt in, I think, Taekwondo.
04:16Yes.
04:17When I played football, I did collective training with other ones to get social with other people,
04:23to communicate, to learn to respect other people around me.
04:28Taekwondo is an individual sport.
04:30So basically one is individual, one is collective.
04:34And it gave me the discipline in everything I do.
04:37In normal life also.
04:39Jesus, I can write a book after this interview.
04:41I'm giving you so many wise words.
04:44Are there any players who are similar to Zlatan?
04:48You too.
04:50I have to accept it's over.
04:52Zlatan Ibrahimovic on his retirement from football.
04:55Yes.
04:55When I accepted, it got out of my system.
04:59Because I was panicking before that.
05:01So, a little bit afraid.
05:03Even if people would not believe it.
05:05But I was a little bit afraid because of what will happen after I retire.
05:09So when I accepted it, it was a relief.
05:14When did Zlatan become the Chuck Norris of football?
05:17I don't know.
05:18Because I never became Chuck Norris.
05:21It's got to be the best goal ever.
05:25Yes.
05:25And it's against England.
05:28So the feeling is even more nice.
05:30Because they didn't like me.
05:32They thought I was a prima donna.
05:33And I gave them a goal.
05:34They will remember forever.
05:36We call it bicycle kick.
05:38Basically you jump up.
05:40You're backwards where you want to kick the ball.
05:43And you just do ninja move.
05:45And then the magic happens.
05:47But the difference between this one and the other ones.
05:50That this one was from 40 meters.
05:53Try that.
05:54Zlatan is still hands.
05:55No.
05:56No he's not.
05:57When you were shooting this Fox commercial with Tom Brady.
06:01Did you really shave your head?
06:02I mean when we shot it, it was better that I shaved my head.
06:05Because Tom Brady is a good looking guy.
06:08So we didn't want to touch him.
06:09But it was not for real.
06:11Thank God.
06:12I would lose a lot of sponsors.
06:15X.
06:18Wait.
06:19How in the world did Zlatan get in the Swedish dictionary?
06:24How did I get in there?
06:25Easy.
06:26I put Sweden on the map.
06:28So this is what they gave me back.
06:29But I think they should have given me more back.
06:32But it's okay.
06:33I'm a nice guy.
06:35A marvel.
06:36One last key.
06:38What's up Frank?
06:39Are you Frank's Swedish cousin?
06:41Oh my God.
06:42I wish I was in this movie.
06:43Because this is how I feel when I play my game.
06:46When I played, I used to switch on.
06:48And I felt like the punisher on the pitch.
06:51I would do anything to win.
06:53Whoever steps in front of me, I would smash him.
06:56I see myself when I see him.
06:58Like maybe not the war situation.
07:01But I went through also a 10 year war.
07:03If we go more serious and deep.
07:06From my father's roots.
07:08And I went through 10 years of a lot of things happening.
07:12Obviously I didn't get demons in my head.
07:15Like Frank.
07:16But not resolved.
07:17But the way he did his things, that's how I feel.
07:19But remember, it's a movie.
07:21It's not for real.
07:23All I want to know is how Zlatan have picked and performed at the World Cup halftime show.
07:29I would like to see Muhammad Ali for 15 minutes dance around in the ring and knock out his opponent.
07:35You never saw something like this before, eh?
07:38You can shut down this platform after I do my interview.
07:41I need to know what he's loving about the US. Everything.
07:45For me, I lived in LA two years.
07:47I had a great time.
07:48I'm back in US.
07:49And it's just different.
07:50Everything here is different.
07:53And it's much bigger.
07:54I enjoy.
07:55Wikipedia.
07:56Let's go.
07:57At the age of 15, he was close to quitting his football career.
08:00In the favor of working at the docks in Malmö.
08:03But his manager convinced him to continue to play.
08:07Working in the docks?
08:08No, he's not true.
08:09He's not true.
08:10I was playing football.
08:11I was going in school.
08:12I was actually good in school.
08:13My father wanted me to be a lawyer.
08:17But I became the football player.
08:18So, it felt like everybody was against me.
08:22It felt like I didn't feel welcome.
08:25Obviously, I had different backgrounds.
08:27I'm from Sweden, but my mother is from Croatia.
08:30My father is from Bosnia.
08:32And it felt like I had to do much more than the other ones.
08:35And everything I did was not enough.
08:37And every little mistake I did, I got punished for it much more than the other ones.
08:43If it was the same mistake.
08:44So, it was not easy because I felt alone against everybody.
08:49But, what doesn't kill you makes you stronger.
08:53No, that's the word.
08:54The only player to score in his Premier League, Serie A, La Liga, Ligue 1 and UEFA Champions League debut.
09:03That's true.
09:04I think I scored in every…
09:06But you missed the MLS here.
09:08So, how?
09:09Wikipedia.
09:10You gotta step it up, eh?
09:12People need to know this.
09:13So, yes.
09:15I scored in every debut I did.
09:17The oldest player to score in Serie A is through it.
09:20To be honest, it's not a record I want.
09:23In 2018, Ibrahimovic mentioned that his wife only allows him to hang one picture of himself at home.
09:31True.
09:31We have no pictures in my home.
09:33The only picture we have is on my feet.
09:38Because every time my family step in my home, they have to remember where this home came from.
09:44And the food we get.
09:46And everything we have.
09:47Those two feet.
09:48Feet.
09:51Okay, that…
09:52You see, when you tell me to say what you want, it's a mistake.
09:56Always be yourself and say however you want.
09:59So, now we're gonna do it my way.
10:01That's it from me.
10:02I'm Zlatan.
10:03And you know who the fuck I am.
10:05And I'm signing off.
10:07Oh my god, you're gonna break all the records with this.
10:09Oh my god, you're gonna break all the records with this.
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