Zlatan eyes more trophies
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IT was business as usual for Zlatan Ibrahimovic as he scored both goals against Guingamp to win France’s season-opening Champions Trophy for Paris Saint-Germain in Beijing last weekend.
One long-range thunderbolt and then a penalty had the Ligue 1 title-holders on the way to a 2-0 victory inside just 20 minutes, and gave the rest of France a glimpse of what could come in the season ahead.
In a poll in the popular sports daily L’Equipe this week, 81 percent of those asked believed PSG would win a third successive championship and 65 percent said that the Swedish striker would be the top scorer for the third year running.
With a total of 1.84 million, Ibrahimovic has more Twitter followers than any French club, PSG included.
He has rewritten records since arriving in France from AC Milan in 2012 and is on course to keep doing so in the campaign ahead.
In 2012-13, he became the first player to score 30 goals in a French top-flight season since Jean-Pierre Papin for Marseille in 1990 and he followed that with 26 goals in the last campaign, 10 more than any other player.
He is sixth in PSG’s list of all-time leading scorers, with 78. If he keeps scoring at his present rate, he could overtake Pedro Pauleta’s record tally of 109 this season.
“When I came to Paris, I said that I wanted to make history,” said Ibrahimovic last weekend.
“I still have a strong desire to win every match. We have written our names down in history and we continue to do so.”
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