Video: He did not succumb to traffic .. How did Zlatan reach the San Remo Festival?
The veteran Swedish star in Milan, Zlatan Ibrahimovic, revealed, on Friday, that he had to use a cyclist passing by the car that was taking him to the San Remo Music Festival, in order to avoid being late due to traffic jams on the highway.
The 39-year-old participated in the San Remo Festival, which lasted for five days on the Ligurian coast, as one of the guest hosts, but, despite his injury, he returned to Milan in the middle of the week to support his team-mates in the match that ended in a 1-1 draw in the league. The local team is what caused Rossoneri to trail leaders Inter by six points.
Zlatan picked up a ride from a Milan fan on a motorcycle after being stuck in traffic going to Sanremo đ pic.twitter.com/bDpTBVv6IA
- Italian Football TV (@IFTVofficial) March 4, 2021
Ibrahimovic, who returned to Milan last year and scored 14 goals in 14 league matches for him this season, is expected to miss his former club, Manchester United, next Thursday in the first leg of the European League final due to injury.
The Swedish star told a press conference that after training and treatment, he returned to San Remo but got stuck in a traffic jam due to an accident on the highway, adding, "After three hours in the car, I asked my driver to open the door to let me get out. I stopped a motorbike driver and asked him:" Can you take me to San Remo? "
"I know it's unbelievable. I recorded the video because otherwise, nobody would have believed me. Did I take a risk? Maybe yes, but I'm not afraid of taking the risk and I couldn't have done anything else to get there in time."
He revealed, "Only two people saw what happened, the driver and a friend. He gave me a GPS tracker to locate me. If the cyclist took me, I don't know where."
Ibrahimovic and his Serbian friend, Sinisa Mihajlovic, 52, who is coaching Bologna and recently recovering from leukemia, performed the Italian song, which became famous in the 1970s, "Io Vagabondo".
In an interview with Radio Monte Carlo Friday, the cyclist, named Franco, revealed that Ibrahimovic wanted to drive the bike himself for 60 kilometers to San Remo, explaining, "I was returning home. While I was parked in traffic, I saw this black (small) truck. He was there. Two people, one of them looked like Ibrahimovic, so I said to myself: + But this is Ibra!
"At that moment, the driver lowered the window and said to me, 'Ibra asks if you can take him to San Remo,'" he said, "Of course, I will take him! No problem. I had a helmet under the chair. I called my wife and told her that I would accompany Ibrahimovic to San Remo. You did not believe me." ".
Franco indicated that he is an amateur and does not drive "the bike except on Sundays and I have never ridden the bike on the highway. He wanted to drive it himself, but I told him: 'No needles, I drive +"
"I am also a Milan fan and he promised me that he would send me his shirt," revealed the cyclist.
The popular music festival, broadcast by the Italian public television station RAI, on five consecutive evenings annually in February, attracts millions of viewers with a similar view of the Italian national teamâs matches in the FIFA World Cup.
He founded the festival in 1951 in the coastal city of San Remo in the Liguria region.
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