20.04.2025 Ibragimovich about the completion of my career: I accepted reality, curbed the ego, realized that the expiration date has expired. This is the most difficult

Zlatan Ibragimovich told why he decided to become an adviser in Milan. - It is interesting to all of us: what encourages such a person as Ibrahimovich, to start a new stage of life is complex, but at the same time exciting, full challenges and difficulties, with which, possibly, only the experience of a football player is not enough? What convinced him?  
- Jerry is to blame for everything (Cardinal, the owner of Milan - athletes ’‘). When I finished playing, I was 42 years old. I told myself: listen, you need to be a realist. You are no longer the one who was before.
The biggest problem that any football player has is to accept reality and leave the ego aside. To realize that your expiration date has expired.
I did it. I accepted it. And it was then that I found peace. Since then I am calm. And it was the most difficult.
- And then? How did you live? Probably, it was pleasant, almost relief-after many years of hard work, it was finally just to be in peace with yourself and spend time with your family?
-I began to enjoy life differently, without daily training. I spent a lot of time with my family, as always. I am not the person who loves party.
If you look at my Instagram, you will never find a photo of my wife or children there. Because for me they are holy, it is personal.
Therefore, after the end of my career, I was with them. I again experienced my life through them. It was like flashback, but now not with me on the field, but with them.
After all, when I played, I almost did not have time for them. Now I wanted to catch up. And it was really fantastic, ”said the former player, and now the adviser to the owners of Milan.  
Ibragimovich about the role in Milan: I am a bodyguard, I protect the club. Let them shoot me - I will shoot twice in response. If you lived for 10 years in war, then you are not afraid of anyone