Zlatan Ibrahimovic
has resigned from next summer's European Championship with the Swedish national team due to his knee injury, to focus on his recovery, the Swedish Football Federation (SvFF) announced this Saturday.
"Today Zlatan has informed
Janne Andersson
that his injury will prevent him from participating in the Eurocup this summer. Get well, Zlatan, we hope to see you soon on the football field!", Confirmed this Saturday the federative body in its official account of the social network Twitter.
The striker, who
will turn 40 in October
, had to retire last Sunday from the AC Milan game against Juventus suffering from discomfort in his left knee, and his injury was later confirmed.
Five years later
On March 16, Ibrahimovic returned to a call-up of the Swedish national team
for the first time since 2016
to participate in the qualifying phase for the Qatar 2022 World Cup.
The former player of FC Barcelona, Inter, Juventus, PSG or Manchester United, among others, is
the top scorer in the history of the Scandinavian team (62)
and the seventh with the most participations (118), far from Anders Svensson's 148 caps.
It will be a significant absence for Sweden, which, within group E, will debut in the
Eurocup against Spain at La Cartuja in Seville on June 14
.
They will then face Slovakia (18) and Poland (23) in Saint Petersburg.
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