It's nothing new to everyone to know how great Zlatan Ibrahimovic is as a player and has proven it throughout his career by being a star and scoring goals at every club he's ever been to. Today at the age of 39 he currently plays for AC Milan in The Italian Serie A and thanks to the level of competition shown every day by the Swedish national team to decide to put him back on his list of call-ups to defend the yellow jacket in the first two qualifying commitments for Qatar 2022 against Georgia and Kosovo and the friendly against Estonia. His last match with the Swedish national team was in the group stage of Euro 2016 in which Sweden lost to belgium, but last autumn he did not miss re-participating with the Swedish national team and indicated his desire to return. Today Zlatan is ready to play and he along with his family are very happy with his convocation returned to the team after his retirement in 2016.

https://www.soyfutbol.com/__export/1615904240047/sites/debate/img/2021/03/16/zlatan-regreso-suecia_1_crop1615904239620.jpg_423682103.jpg They asked him why he came back? and this was answered by the Swede: **"playing on the team is the biggest thing you can do as a footballer, within my feeling that I could help them, I'm playing at a great level"** ![image.png](https://images.hive.blog/DQmaKbNrJidDkcCrfXixgQqVBWmo2YDg6JupUL55qB7BvbT/image.png) #

So much so was the player's excitement at returning to the national team that he couldn't stop tears from coming out of his eyes when he was asked it felt to return to the national team after so long (4 years), this said the Swedish star:

**It was a good reception, but hard. Vincent, who had cried when I left, asked me not to leave again. And I said, "Okay, it's okay."** ![image.png](https://images.hive.blog/DQmZPgH3L3MG2PMQcCekW5r7ZzKrJBn1ma8t78dPfFRwrAw/image.png)

Vincent, 12, who is one of his sons, as "Ibra" lives alone in Milan because he has not been able to take his family and less now with pandemic restrictions

We'll see how Zlatan and his teammates do next Thursday when Sweden faces Georgia on **Day 1 of the playoffs heading to the 2022 Qatar World Cup**