Zlatan Ibrahimovic already has one of the most impressive CVs in football – and now he can add multi-platinum recording artist to the list.
Have you heard the Swedish striker’s version of his national anthem? He recorded a rendition of anthem ‘Du Gamla, Du Fria’ – translated as ‘Thou Ancient, Thou Free’ – for a Volvo car advert in 2014, which has been streamed more than 3 million times…
And so he’s received a gold disc for his efforts, which he has shared on Instagram…
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Speaking to Swedish newspaper Dagens Industri at the time of recording, he set out to give the “old” version of the anthem a makeover and called it “boring”.
Full of hope, he said: “This new national anthem is exactly what we need… I hope this will become the new one”.
“This is what Sweden looks like in 2014. I do not speak perfect Swedish, but that is how it is. Mixtures everywhere. I may be a Swedish anyway. We are all different, yet equal. My dad is from Bosnia and Muslim. My mother is Croatian and Catholic. But I was born in Sweden and am a Swedish citizen. You cannot change that.”
Next stop, Eurovision…
