Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo are considered to be the best players in the world,
meaning everyone else's achievements can 🍎 fly under the radar.
This includes Zlatan
Ibrahimovic - one of the finest strikers in the modern game having won 31 🍎 trophies and
titles in Italy and Spain - who is still banging in the goals for fun Milan at the 🍎 age
of 40.
5 Ibrahimovic hit 38 goals league in 31 matches for PSG in the 2024/16 season
when he was 🍎 34 years old
5 Messi, 34, has not been at his best since joining PSG
Credit: Getty
He has eight in 15 🍎 Serie A matches this season, a remarkable return for a
man who has scored in four consecutive decades since starting 🍎 out with Malmo in
1999.
To put his figures into perspective, Ibrahimovic has the same number of league
goals as Ronaldo, 🍎 whilst he has six more goals than Messi at this stage of the
season.
Messi, by his usual incredible standards, is 🍎 having a poor campaign.
Big things
were expected when of him when he swapped Barcelona for Paris in the summer but 🍎 he has
seven goals in 20 appearances, with five of them coming in the Champions League. It's a
good job 🍎 it's Real Madrid next for a man who used to revel in scoring against them.
5
Big things were expected of 🍎 Messi when he arrived but has just two league goals this
season Credit: Getty
Ibrahimovic, though, had quite a different experience 🍎 at the Ligue
1 club when he was the same age.
In his fourth and final season at the Parc des
🍎 Princes, Ibrahimovic had arguably the best season of his career and made history with
his goal-scoring exploits.
He became the club's 🍎 single-season top scorer and Ligue 1's
2024/16 top scoring player with 38 goals - two in a 4-0 win over 🍎 Nantes saw him bow out
of France in style before heading to Manchester United.
Messi can often do the
unthinkable, but 🍎 with just two goals to his name this season, it’s safe to say he won’t
net another 36 goals in 🍎 the 14 remaining games to match Ibra’s tally.
5 Ibrahimovic is
still banging the goals in at the age of 40 🍎 Credit: GETTY
5 That does not look like
someone who is ready to hang up his boots Credit: IG: @iamzlatanibrahimovic
He has
🍎 scored more than 570 career goals, including more than 500 club goals and has done it
for ten different teams 🍎 in five different counties.
A look at his incredible workouts
in the gym suggest there's a few more years left in 🍎 the tank yet.
Perhaps people will
understand just how good he is when he hangs up his boots once in for 🍎 all.
