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When Sweden lost to Portugal in their UEFA World Cup qualifying playoff, Zlatan Ibrahimovic dismissed the planet's most popular event by saying, "One thing is for sure, a World Cup without me is nothing to watch." Since then, a bunch of famous Brazilians put together a video asking him to come to the World Cup and Zlatan hinted that he might change his summer plans and fulfill their wish.While Zlatan visited Al Capone's prison cell at Alcatraz and toyed with the TMZ cameramen in Los Angeles, France fans put up a banner that read "Zlatan we miss you" at their first match in Brazil. And then, by the magic of Zlatan, he appeared.
Welcome to Brazil @Ibra_official #ZlatanWasHere #ESPCHI #VEMIBRA pic.twitter.com/JBZgZTkVBa
— FIFAWorldCup (@FIFAWorldCup) June 19, 2014
With his son, PSG manager Laurent Blanc and chairman Nasser Al-Khelaifi, Zlatan attended Chile's 2-0 win over a Spain team comprised of many of his old teammates at Barcelona. Perhaps this is why all of those ticketless Chilean fans charged into Maracana Stadium.— FIFAWorldCup (@FIFAWorldCup) June 19, 2014
Anyway, Zlatan is officially at the World Cup. You have been warned.
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