Driven by resentment the mind of Zlatan

When Zlatan Ibrahimovic was a kid in the mid-1980s, his mother sometimes hit him on the head with a wooden spoon.

If the impact caused the spoon to break, Jurka Gravic would send him out to buy a replacement. On other occasions she reached for a rolling pin.

Swedish social services intervened after Jurka was arrested for handling stolen goods. They noted that Zlatan’s half-sister had a drug habit and expressed concern about their divorced mother’s workload: she cleaned offices 14 hours a day to support five children in the multi-ethnic Rosengard district of Malmo.