Capello shows Ibrahimović the way

By Ben On December 7, 2009 · Leave a Comment

Zlatan Ibrahimović talks exclusively to Graham Hunter in the latest edition of Champions magazine, the official magazine of the UEFA Champions League. Here, in an extract from that article, the FC Barcelona man discusses the impact Fabio Capello had in turning him into the complete striker.

Ibrahimović reveals that when he first moved to Juventus, he became the pupil, Capello the professor and Marco van Basten the set text: “Capello said: ‘You need to score more goals.’ From the very first training session he put me in front of the goal and I had to train there every day. Shots, headers, volleys, rebounds, on the ground, in the air – every possible way of scoring a goal. One day he called me to his office and I was like, ‘OK, what have I done now?’ He told me to sit down and watch a video. I thought it was to show me where I’d made a mistake or should do something differently. But it was a compilation of Van Basten’s goals. Capello told me to study everything about him – movement, finishing, timing, the lot. He told me he wanted me to be able to make the same movements and score the same goals.” [+]