I'm Joe Devine and welcome to Whiteboard Football Extra.

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A stunning athlete and serial winner.

Slatane Ibrahimovitch is a champion in four different leagues.

At 35, he continues to surprise with highly impressive

performances in one of Europe's toughest leagues. How has he managed to last this long, and to what

degree does his self-confidence and aggressiveness inform his ability? Today, I'm joined by Nick Miller

to discuss this.

When people talk about Zlatan Ibrahimovych, they often talk about his character.

He's very dramatic, he's overtly self-confident.

He often uses humour in a way that seems a little bit more intelligent than some other footballers, and sometimes this all comes across as arrogance.

He reminds me a little bit of Cristiano Ronaldo in that way,

and I wondered, Nick, what you thought about the attitudes of players right at the top of the game

and how maybe their characters in that sense might actually be part of the reason

that they're better than other players.

Yeah, I think that's certainly one of the reasons.

I don't think he sort of quite comes across as arrogant.

I think on the pitch, certainly he is very arrogant,

and he's kind of perfectly entitled to be.

You mentioned Ronaldo there.

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