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Zlatan Ibrahimovic Angry Over Being Named Sweden's 2nd Best Sportsman of all Time
Zlatan Ibrahimovic was voted 2nd, behind tennis legend Bjorn Borg. Ibrahimovic said coming second felt like finishing last.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic felt he should be named in all the top five spots.© AFP
Paris Saint-Germain striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic did not take kindly to being voted Sweden's second greatest sportsman of all time.
Named runner-up to tennis star Bjorn Borg in the poll by newspaper Dagens Nyheter, the irrepressible Ibrahimovic said he felt he should have filled all five first places.
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"Coming second is like finishing last," he said through his spokesman Mika Lepisto.
He did, however, acknowledge that Borg, winner of 11 Grand Slam titles and world number one for 109 consecutive weeks from 1979 to 1981, was "a living legend".
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