LA Galaxy striker, Zlatan Ibrahimovic has said he feels like he is “hunted” even if he escaped punishment for a battle with LAFC’s Mohamed El-Munir, which left the player needing surgery.
Zlatan was given a formal warning but avoided sanction from Major League Soccer after elbowing El-Munir in the recent Los Angeles derby.
El-Munir required surgery after the incident that led to a fracture, but Zlatan did not receive any card.
His words, “I feel like I am hunted”
“But when you are the best, you’re hunted.”
“That I feel a little bit hunted in that way, that is not OK, because I play my game and I need to feel free in my game and not feel after the game [that] people will look at me and look [at the] detail at everything I do.
“Because that is not part of the game. We have a referee, the referee does his thing. If it goes beyond that, I understand, we have this Disciplinary Committee, but [what is] worse than [being] reviewed every game?
“I’m professional like everybody else. I should get treated like everybody else. If they cannot stop you on the field, that’s it, you cannot do nothing about it.
“And if you try to do something outside [the field], that for me is not part of the game. That is not professional.”
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