Zlatan Ibrahimovic returns to Swedish national football squad: head coach
By AFP
17 March 2021 |
6:33 am
Footballer Zlatan Ibrahimovic will return to Sweden's national squad after an almost five-year hiatus to play in World Cup qualifiers at the end of March, head coach Janne Andersson says in an online presentation from Stockholm as he announced the team's line-up.
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