'You can't score goals like me even in video games': Zlatan Ibrahimovic

Zlatan Ibrahimovic

Football fans love to play as their favourite players on video games, scoring goals for fun. But Zlatan Ibrahimovic believes that his goals can never be recreated in a video game – be it spectacular back heel flicks in the air or bicycle kicks.

The PSG striker jokingly made the comment when he was talking about his brilliant overhead kick goal for Sweden against England.

Ibrahimovic said, “I score a lot of goals that are hard to replicate. These are the kinds of goals that lift people’s spirits. “With PSG, I scored an acrobatic back-heel recently and you don’t see things like that every week. The same goes for the bicycle kick from 40 yards I scored against England.”

“But believe me, when I score goals like this, it feels good. You usually score goals like that in video games and you could compare the feeling of scoring a goal like that in real life to doing so in a video game.

“To be honest, though, I don’t think that you can score as spectacular a goal as those of Zlatan in a video game, even though these games are very realistic these days.”