Before he was “Ibra,” Zlatan was just a kid from Rosengård with a stolen bike, a taekwondo kick, and a chip on his shoulder. We trace his journey from Malmö’s concrete courtyards to a record-breaking move to Ajax — with temper flare-ups, near-quits, and the famous “I don’t do auditions” moment along the way.

Tune in for stories of dockyard near-misses, taekwondo flips, and the making of one of football’s most polarizing figures on this episode of Football in the 2000s: Young Zlatan.

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