{"id":14445,"date":"2017-11-09T14:45:51","date_gmt":"2017-11-09T13:45:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2017\/11\/09\/zlatan-ibrahimovic-my-sweden-career-is-over-even-if-they-reach-world-cup\/"},"modified":"2017-11-09T14:45:51","modified_gmt":"2017-11-09T13:45:51","slug":"zlatan-ibrahimovic-my-sweden-career-is-over-even-if-they-reach-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=14445","title":{"rendered":"Zlatan Ibrahimovic: my Sweden career is over even if they reach World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2022 Manchester United forward rules out return to international football\u2022 \u2018Sweden play with less pressure now that they play without me\u2019Zlatan Ibrahimovic has ruled out a return to international football even if Sweden beat Italy in the World Cup play-offs and reach the finals in Russia next year. The 36-year-old won his last cap \u2013 his 116th \u2013 at Euro 2016 and has this week reiterated that he is now fully focused on regaining his fitness to play for Manchester United again.\u201cI am not thinking about Sweden or the World Cup,\u201d he told Sky Sports Italy. \u201cI am just thinking about returning to full fitness as soon as possible. My story with the national team is finished. Maybe I could have done more, maybe I could have done less but my time [with them] has come to an end. Either way it would be beautiful if Sweden reached the World Cup.\u201d Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2017\/nov\/09\/zlatan-ibrahimovic-sweden-no-return-world-cup\" target=\"_blank\">Zlatan Ibrahimovic: my Sweden career is over even if they reach World Cup<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2022 Manchester United forward rules out return to international football\u2022 \u2018Sweden play with less pressure now that they play without me\u2019Zlatan Ibrahimovic has ruled out a return to international football even if Sweden beat Italy in the World Cup play-offs and reach the finals in Russia next year. The 36-year-old [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14445\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}