02/12/2013

Is Zlatan the most entertaining footballer ever?


Using arrogant to describe Zlatan Ibrahimovic makes you realise the limitations of our language. He recently claimed a World Cup without him was a World Cup not worth watching, and thinks that not even computer games are able to recreate his ability. Last year he was entered into the Swedish Dictionary. The verb 'to zlatan', which in Swedish and French is 'Zlataner', means to dominate. I wonder whether we should put Zlatan in our dictionary?

zlatan 
(adjective)
when an exaggerated opinion of one's own importance, merit, ability, etc, becomes amusing. 
Zlatan Ibrahimovic is zlatan or the people smiled in disbelief at his zlatan statement about the World Cup.

Having said that he has scored some cracking goals and done some seriously funny zlatan things. Judge for yourself here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2IzRpUM2g3Y video by HeilRJ Football Channel. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAH8GicUtN0 video by WeTalkFootball.

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