Monday, July 18, 2022 at 3:00 PM• Guy Habets • Last update: 16:16

Zlatan Ibrahimovic will also be active at AC Milan next season, the club has announced via the official channels. The Swedish top striker also does not know how to stop at the age of forty and has signed a contract that will keep him on the team until mid-2023. Rossoneria binds. Then Ibrahimovic is now 41 years old. He is currently recovering from a serious knee injury.

Milan became champion in Italy last season, but the input of Ibracadabra wasn’t huge. The Swede eventually made 23 matches in Serie A, of which he was in the starting line-up. Zlatan scored a total of eight goals and had to watch mainly in the final phase of the season due to injuries. From the stands and later the reserve bench, he saw how his teammates kept the peace and on the final day the scudetto grips. After the season, Ibrahimovic underwent surgery on the knee and partly because of that, he is still sidelined for a while.

Official Statement: @Ibra_official ?? https://t.co/8BgZOIZ2Lv Comunicato Official: Zlatan Ibrahimovic ?? https://t.co/0A2sQdJppp#ReadyToLeaveAMark #SempreMilan pic.twitter.com/GN44NS1cLJ

— AC Milan (@acmilan) July 18, 2022

It was therefore long uncertain whether Milan wanted to continue with the experienced attacker, but now both parties have made a decision. Ibrahimovic signs a contract that will keep him in San Siro for another season and in it he can prove after his recovery that he is far from old and worn out, but can still contribute to a team at the top of Europe. Milan enters the Champions League as champion of Italy and does not want to make a mud figure in that competition.

Ibrahimovic will most likely not be doing actual minutes in 2022. The Swede is recovering from knee surgery and will not be available again until January. According to Ibrahimovic, the operation should have been done much earlier, as he played without a cruciate ligament for six months. “I had a swollen knee for six months because there was no cruciate ligament in it,” he told Instagram. suffered so much on and off the field, but I had to make my teammates and coach the champion of Italy, because that’s what I promised them.”

Ibrahimovic started his career in the youth of Malmö FF. He first played for AC Milan in 2010 via Ajax, Juventus, Internazionale and Barcelona. The forward has played a total of 159 games for the current Serie A champions, scoring 92 goals over two periods. In total, the top striker scored 492 times in his entire career. In his international career with Sweden, he scored 62 goals in 121 matches. Last year, the contract with the attacker was also extended by a year.