Play like Zlatan Ibrahimovic

We can’t all be Zlatan Ibrahimovic. Even those professionals who try to emulate the Swede can’t become the unstoppable force of nature that makes him feared by defenders and known to all by just one name: Zlatan.

 

But you can learn how to play like him. Zlatan wasn’t born a god (he’d probably disagree); any player can replicate his balletic brawn if they follow the right training guide.

 

We have that guide. Follow our specially chosen training drills and gym workouts and you’ll soon be able to hold up the ball, turn a defender and scorch the net just as well as Zlatan. Well, almost.
 

The Zlatan Ibrahimovic training guides
Turn, shoot, score – every time
The Zlatan workout
Evade your marker in the box
Zlatan Ibrahimovic: How to play as a targetman

 

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Huw was on the FourFourTwo staff from 2009 to 2015, ultimately as the magazine's Managing Editor, before becoming a freelancer and moving to Wales. As a writer, editor and tragic statto, he still contributes regularly to FFT in print and online, though as a match-going #WalesAway fan, he left a small chunk of his brain on one of many bus journeys across France in 2016.