Friday 24 April 2020 20:00, UK
AC Milan striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic scored in a friendly match for Swedish club Hammarby on Friday.
The 38-year-old returned to his native Sweden after the Italian football season was halted due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Ibrahimovic is a co-owner of Hammarby with a 25 per cent stake in the Swedish top-flight club.
He has been training with them as Sweden has resisted a full lockdown, and on Friday took part in an internal friendly at the Tele2 Arena where Hammarby were joined by local clubs Bajans and IK Frej for a combined inter-team friendly.
"I am very grateful that I am allowed to join the training when everything is closed in Europe, especially in Italy where you're not allowed training today and you have to be indoor," Ibrahimovic said.
Ibrahimovic upset fans of his former side Malmo when he purchased a stake in Hammarby, with those supporters tearing down a state erected by his former club in his honour.
"I played in Malmo even if I was not welcome there, yet so I chose to play there and help," he said.
"I gave them a €100m, it is not difficult to build a team on that - I feel that there I have been very kind, too kind.
"The statue, it was what it was and because it's not there now doesn't mean that my history is turned down - it will stay for ever."
Ibrahimovic is set to stay in Sweden and continue to train with Hammarby until travel restrictions into Italy are lifted for him to return to Milan.
