The Swede took to the field with the same pair of Nikes he already used in Udine in December 2021 and in his last game as a starter
Zlatan Ibrahimovic put the photo of his feet in a picture and some time ago he explained: “Every day that my family enters the house they have to understand where everything comes from. I have those feet to thank for the roof over us.” Around those feet, a particular story was born on Saturday evening. Ibra scored the oldest goal in Serie A history in Udine on Saturday and The Pitch, a specialized site, pointed out: he did it with a model of shoes that is out of production, a very strange detail for a high-level player.
superstition
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What happened? For this game, Ibra dusted off an old model (Nike Mercurial Vapor Recharge Pack), which he hadn’t used in the months before the injury. They are the shoes with which he had scored in Udine in December 2021 and with which he had played his last match as a starter in Serie A, in January 2022. And then, the suspicion that it was superstition is strong. Sometimes footballers also rely on this to find feeling and automatisms.
One of us
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A second curiosity. Zlatan hasn’t had an agreement with a technical sponsor for some time. He was linked to Adidas at the time of United but in these AC Milan years he doesn’t have a contract. And then, like any footballer from A to Third Category, he can choose his favorite pair of shoes. Having a discontinued model, just in case, isn’t a big deal for him.
March 20 – 18:23
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