SVT profile on Zlatan's nose: "It is in Malmö"

The controversial statue depicting football star Zlatan Ibrahimovic has received his fair share of attention after it was inaugurated on October 9 at the Stadium Square in Malmö. The idea was that the statue would be a tribute to Malmöson, but the story took a turn.

- He represented our city, we were kings because he was king. What happened next was experienced as a big betrayal and when cultural people in Stockholm also began to comment on our feelings, many people laughed out of it, says SVT profile, gardener and football enthusiast John Taylor to the Culture News.

The fact that Zlatan had bought into the company AEG and thus also became part-owner of Hammarby aroused enormous anger and the statue became the subject of several cases of vandalism. It has both been hung with a toilet seat, overturned and knocked down. On December 22, someone saw the statue's nose, which has since disappeared without a trace. Or? As Aftonbladet was the first to report, a new track has emerged.

- I have a friend who saw it at a New Year's party in an apartment at Möllevången in Malmö. It hung on a necklace around someone's neck, says John Taylor.

Do you know where it is now?

- No. Somewhere in Malmö.

The pursuit of Zlatan's nose continues. In the SVT program "We Who Loved Zlatan", the journalist Janne Josefsson went on to say that one had found her nose online, but it turned out to be a nasal prosthesis from the 17th century.

According to John Taylor, it is absurd that the nose has sparked so much debate, the discussion should be about something completely different.

- It is absurd that the concept of Zlatan's nose has become larger than the man himself. The fact that Zlatan evokes such strong feelings, both love and anger, is more interesting than buying shares in another football club.

- This whole story is contemporary art, that's how I perceive it. Zlatan's nose is for me one of the greatest works of art of our time. I wonder what it might be worth? says John Taylor.