Zlatan Ibrahimovic’s agent, Mino Raiola,
has asked his client to stop scoring sensational goals as he feels that the
Paris Saint-Germain forward is making French football look "really
easy".
The Sweden international struck twice in
the capital club's 2-1 Coupe de la Ligue semi-final win at Nantes on Tuesday,
opening the scoring with a spectacular long-range volley before then popping up
with a last-minute winner.
“When he scored that [first] goal, I laughed. It looked like he was
playing with my children,” Raiola joked in an interview with France Football.
“I said to him after the game, 'Please, stop scoring goals like that
because otherwise people will think French football is really easy; it's like
you're playing with kids.'”
The 46-year-old then recalled a myth
surrounding Nils Liedholm, the famous Swedish striker who played for AC Milan
for 11 years.
"There is a legend in Milan that Nils
Liedholm never misplaced a pass," he explained.
"One day, it happened! And then the
whole stadium gave him a standing applause because people had realised he too
was human.
“Well, the day Zlatan scores a normal goal, I will rise and
applaud."
Raiola also believes Ibrahimovic's
sensational form proves that the 32-year-old is the greatest talent in the game
today, despite finishing fourth in the voting for the 2013 Ballon d’Or.
The agent added: “I continue to say that if
there were now a vote for the best player in the world, I am sure that it would
be he who would win.
“But it should not be a secret ballot, where you understand nothing.”
