Zlatan Ibrahimovic picked an all-time dream XI and did not name a single Manchester United player past or present.
Well, that is not strictly true because the 37-year-old striker, who scored 29 goals for United between 2016 and 2018, selected himself up front.
But there was no place for Cristiano Ronaldo, with Brazil legend Ronaldinho given the nod up front to support Ibrahimovic alongside Lionel Messi.
Messi and Ibrahimovic were team-mates during the Swede's two seasons at Barcelona. And Ronaldinho and Ibrahimovic briefly linked up at Milan.
Ibrahimovic opted for a midfield three of Patrick Vieira, Xavi and Pavel Nedved, with Lilian Thuram, Thiago Silva, Alessandro Nesta and Maxwell making up his back four ahead of goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon.
His five-man subs bench comprised of Julio Cesar, Andres Iniesta, Fabio Cannavaro, Gennaro Gattuso, and Clarence Seedorf.
Ibrahimovic shared his team selection with his 36million followers on Instagram in a post he used to plug his latest book, which is humbly titled 'I Am Football'.
His caption read: 'In I Am Football I present my dream team. I also put in 50 pages with complete statistics and fun facts from my career, like how many goals I have done with my right foot and how many minutes I played with Inter. It will give you something to talk about this Christmas.'
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Zlatan never picked a Dream 11, the Dream 11 picks Zlatanπππ
zetbiklsuz
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Let's say he was dreaming when he wrote this sheet.
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Zlatan feels jealous with Cristiano. You may have noticed when Cristiano Ronaldo scores his all time best goal, insane overhead kick, against his current club Juventus at that time Zlatan advices Ronaldo to score such goal from 40 yards like he did in 2013 against England.
Elsa98
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Wow, what a handwriting!
RealMd13
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Team name : Ibrahimovic FC π Coach: Zlatan π Captain: Zlatan π Gk Buffon Zlatan π RB Thuram Zlatan π CB Thiago Zlatan π CB Nesta Zlatan π LB Maxwell Zlatan π CDM Viera Zlatan π CM Nedved Zlatan π CAM Xavi Zlatan π RF Messi Zlatan π LF Ronaldinho Zlatan π CF Zlatan ibrahimovic (C)
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if he had written Ronaldo then he would have to erase his own name ....
MayankAbiNiraula
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zlatan-I am lion and I don't compare myself with humans. Ramsey-Say it again Zlatan -flee to Us. Ramsey curse