In the football journalist Olof Lundh's recently released book "The national team according to Lundh", several former national team colleagues anonymously testify to Zlatan Ibrahimovic about how the attacking star occasionally engaged in the mental breakdown of certain teammates during his years in blue and yellow.

Information that was then confirmed by an unnamed longtime national team leader to Aftonbladet.

Albin Ekdal, 31, was on the same national team as Ibrahimovic for several years.

In an interview with Viaplay, the midfielder gives his view on the information.

"I've had my duster with Zlatan"

- I have said before that Zlatan is an incredible winner on the field who makes enormous demands on his teammates and it can sometimes be expressed in the fact that he screams a lot and such.

Then I absolutely do not recognize myself in that there would be any bully off the field, on the contrary, he got along well with most people.

But as I said, on the pitch he could be hot-tempered, he says.

Ekdal talked in the summer in July.

There he admitted that Zlatan's high expectations of other teammates probably had a negative effect.

But he questions whether it was bullying.

- Everyone has their picture of reality, I can only say what I experienced.

Of course it was special to have him, but that he would have pushed people down I do not buy.

I've had my dusts with Zlatan too, that's what happens.

It is clear that it is a little harder to have a discussion with him than it is with anyone else on the team.

But that is what happens, he tells Viaplay.

SEE ALSO: Lundh stands by his review: "Part of the culture of silence" (September 23, 2020)

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Lundh stands by his review: "Part of the culture of silence" Photo: Bildbyrån