Posts Tagged zlatan ibrahimovic
Euro 2008: The Goal of the Tournament So Far
Every team has played its first match, so it’s time to identify the most potent draught of goal-scoring elixir to date. (People actually talk that way, you know. It’s just verisimilitude from me.) Rather than staging a vote, I’m going to declare a winner from On High. But please, feel free to name your own [...]
The Tuesday Portrait: Zlatan Ibrahimović (2)
The taxonomy of football is a difficult and unrewarding science, but two families of attackers that I think we would all recognize are the shambling/slouching/mesmerizingly ill-fitting rogues and the barrel-chested/candid-thighed chargers. The first sort look deceivingly broken-down and loose-limbed, as though their bodies were assembled out of parts that didn’t quite match; away from [...]
The Tuesday Portrait: Zlatan Ibrahimović
People who say that soccer is boring and people who say that soccer is beautiful are usually talking about the same thing, which is that the game makes it hard to tell the difference between intention and accident. The game takes very graceful people and makes them clumsy; you’re an acrobat, it says, now [...]
