Football classic: Zlatan's 30-yard bicycle vs England which won Puskas award

On November 14, 2012, Sweden took on England in an international friendly at home. Ibrahimovic scored 4 goals to help his side beat their rivals 4-2, including a 30-yard bicycle that won the Puskas award.

There were plenty of other reasons to make this friendly notable: it was Steven Gerrard's 100th cap; it was the opening of the new Friends Arena in Stockholm; those six new England caps; a few weeks earlier Sweden had come back from 4-0 down against Germany in a World Cup qualifier, so there was a sense they could do anything.

But in the end, the only reason anyone recalls this game is because of Ibrahimovic. The striker, then playing for Paris Saint-Germain, scored three goals in the last 12 minutes, bringing his tally for the game to four after he opened the scoring. But it's the last of the four that will be most remembered, a sensational, absurd, extraordinary scissor-kick volley from around 30 yards out, leaving a clutch of international footballers look like simple schoolkids.

"It was the perfect performance, Zlatan against children," said Tobias Sana, who was on the bench for Sweden that day. "He has been criticised in England in the past, but this proves them all wrong." Indeed it did.

"Sometimes you feel you're looking at a computer game where you can do all these incredible things," Sweden head coach Erik Hamren said. "Because that's not possible to do that, that fourth goal."

At various points in the game the England fans rolled out a creative song that accused Ibrahimovic of being, shall we say, a substandard version of Andy Carroll. Ibrahimovic is a man who likes to talk, but it also helps when you can respond with goals that no other player on the planet can score. Gerrard called it the best goal he'd ever seen, but oddly for him, Ibrahimovic was a little more circumspect.

"I saw him come out and had to decide whether I should go in a duel or wait for him to head it out," Ibrahimovic said. "When he headed it I had it in my mind to try to score. I hit it in mid-air and, when I landed, saw [Shawcross] running back to try to clear but it bounced over him. It was a good try, that is all. When it comes off it looks fantastic but, for me, I liked the first goal more because it was history - the first in the new arena."