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- Updated: November 22, 2016
Zlatan Ibrahimovic has been named Sweden’s top player for a 10th successive year and will have a statue erected in his honour outside the stadium where he embarrassed England.
The Manchester United forward received his ‘Guldbollen’ – Golden Ball – award at a ceremony in Stockholm, extending a run of successes that began in 2007.
Ibrahimovic, who also won the award in 2005 before losing out to Fredrik Ljungberg a year later, left Paris St Germain for United in the summer and has experienced mixed fortunes at his new home.
But in Sweden he continues to reign, despite bringing his international career to an end after Euro 2016. A bronze likeness of the 36-year-old, being created by artist Peter Linde, …
