PARIS: Over a year ago has passed since the Swedish king met Zlatan Ibrahimović during a state visit in France and Paris. Now comes the book that tells about Ibrahimović's ultimatum to show up to the royal meeting: PSG's Swedes Caroline Seger and Kosovare Asllani were not allowed to attend.
In the book "Ibra - grandeur nature", in which Sportbladet read in a preview, the authors Damien Degorre and Arnaud Hermant, PSG experts by day in the newspaper l'Équipe, describes detailed about Zlatan's four years for Paris.
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"It's 'set'"
Degorre and Hermant tells how Zlatan Ibrahimović during the Football Gala in Globen in November 2014, when he received his 9th Golden Ball, noted that not everyone applauded him. His colleagues at PSG, Caroline Seger and Kosovare Asllani (when she still played in PSG), didn't show any expression.
In 2013, Zlatan made the infamous "bicycle joke" about Therese Sjögran, women's team and women's football as a whole. Several internationals reacted strongly about this.
Among them, Caroline Seger, who wrote this on Instagram: "I have never in those years felt as small as I did when the greatest sportsman in the history of Sweden expressed his opinion about women's football."
The book describes how Zlatan paid attention to the lack of applause from Caroline Seger and Kosovare Asllani. And when the Swedish King and Queen planned to visit Paris and Parc des Princes two weeks later, Caroline Seger'S and Kosovare Asllanis's participation was removed from the program.
Asllani then wrote an statement on Facebook : "We were invited today to meet the King and Queen, last night it was apparently 'set' which is not true for everyone. We will leave unsaid why it became so. However, we want to point out that it has nothing to do with the King and Queen".
Then did she and Caroline Seger made themselves unavailable.for media.
Listened at last
Degorre and Hermant tells that Zlatan Ibrahimović made an ultimatum to the PSG board regarding the Swedish women players presence the night before the state visit. Zlatan's statement was "It's them or me", a message the PSG's board in great distress listened to and succumbed to his demand. The participation of Asllani, Seger and the captain for PSG's women team (Sabrina Delannoy) were removed from the program.
The book "Ibra - grandeur nature" will be released in next week in France.
Sportbladet have searched Ibrahimović's agent Mino Raiola, and Caroline Seger and Kosovare Asllani for a comment without success.