When Zlatan shoots, he shoots to kill
PSG striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic is up to his neck to criticism in his native Sweden after he reportedly killed a 500kg moose (over one tonne) on his first ever hunting trip to.
‘Ibra’ made Sunday headlines in his homeland after Expressen ran a front-page story about his hunting exploits, in Ames, over his Christmas holidays.
TREVLIG HÄLG! Zlatans senaste triumf ägde rum i skogen – inte på fotbollsplanen. http://t.co/1xKjqkJcvV pic.twitter.com/2ERPDIQw96
— Expressen (@Expressen) December 28, 2014
The dead-eyed deed has not come as too much of a shock in Sweden as the footballer has held a hunting licence since 2010 and owns a hunting lodge in Offerdal.
Camilla Björkbom, general secretary of Sweden’s leading animal rights advocacy group, declared, ‘It is problematic. It is always problematic when famous people do things like that, because then it looks like they support this type of activities.’
Hunting is legal in Sweden. In a previous interview with the business section of Dagens newspaper, Ibrahimovic claimed that hunting helps to relax him. ‘I love to get out into the calm and go to the woods where no-one recognises me. I don’t think the animals do.’
Hat-tip to 101greatgoals for first spotting the story.
