Zlatan Ibrahimovic will miss due to injury in the Nations League matches that Sweden will play in June against Slovenia, Norway and Serbia, coach Janne Andersson announced today.
“He had injury problems for a while and he didn’t play very well in Milan, so he prefers not to play,” Andersson told the news conference that announced the squad.
Ibrahimovic returned to the Swedish national team in March 2021 after a five-year hiatus after Euro 2016. A legend in his country, he is the all-time top scorer with 62 goals out of 121 injured.
Last March, the 40-year-old Milan striker said he wanted to continue his international career “as long as possible” despite the fact that Sweden did not qualify for the 2022 World Cup after falling in the playoffs against in Poland (2-0).).
His retirement may be near
But since then rumors have grown that it could be his last season as an active footballer due to his recurrent knee and Achilles tendon injuries. His last complete in Milan was in January.
When asked if Ibrahimovic was definitely excluded from playing for Sweden, Andersson said that “we will continue the relationship in the future, we agreed on this in our last conversation. We just talked about the next ones. against, nothing else. “
Source: La Verdad
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