Why doesn't Sweden rate Larsson ahead of Ibra? Larsson scored at every major tournament he was in, was a decent part of the squad that finished 3rd place in 94, and had a fantastic 2002 WC. Ibra never came close internationally to Larssons 2002 World Cup, and yet they act like he's the greatest.
I mean, he got outclassed by a washed up Shevchenko who was two games away from retirement at Euro 2012
oh and before any Swedes come in and go "i-it's a team game", Ibra was marking Shevchenko on the corner where he scored his second goal.
Isaac Mitchell
ibra is more memeful than larsson so normies love him more
but yeah you're right
Jackson Diaz
it's late in Sweden so i might remake this when they're on cause I genuinely want to know why they put Ibra on a pedestal and forget about Larsson besides him being a meme
Jayden Davis
>M-muh waste my prime years at Celtic guy He should have moved on from Celtic at his prime days. Wasted potential. Whilst Ibra played in top clubs all his life, winning league titles every year except one, where Jewentus bought the title ahead of Milan.
Brandon Russell
and yet Larsson had the far better international career
Grayson Peterson
He played with far better players than Ibra ever did. -94 team had players from top leagues and some top teams. Current Sweden and 10 years back has had players in German second league, championship, Greek league, Turkish league and swedish league. And most of those players were benchwarmers. Some have been decent players like Ljungberg and so on, but people tend to forget that Ljungberg was also shit playing with Sweden, why? Because the 11 man team has been abysmal.
Christopher Jackson
because women like how Ibra looks
Juan Anderson
But Larsson had better performances when they were playing on the same team. Don't forget the Ibra penalty miss in 2004
Ian Rivera
No he didn't. A missed penalty is hardly enough to demean his accomplishments. Ibra is the greatest footballer Sweden has seen and it's not even something that's up for debate. Did our manager suck his dick and made Sweden suffer as a team for it? Obviously, but that can't really be blamed on Ibra can it. No player should ever go against the coach, it would have just made things worse. Besides, Larsson was a benchplayer at -94.
Liam Collins
Larsson had 3 goals that tournament and made his penalty. Ibra had 2 goals and missed his penalty (if he made it, you would have went through)
Larsson was one of only three people to score in open play vs Italy in 00. Larssons 2002 World Cup destroys anything Ibra did internationally. I mean shit, Larsson even scored in the 2006 World Cup.
Meanwhile Ibra got outshined by the corpse of Shevchenko in 2012
Easton Butler
Larson was fucking worldy should have left Celtic earlier would have been a far better player for it, was top class in 2002 though
Isaiah Mitchell
Because they watched them both play and didn't just discover them on Wikipedia
Leo Jenkins
>Zlatan is the best player in swedish history xDD
t. culture marxist that have never heard about GRENOLI
Angel Flores
because hahaha ibra so crazy haha ibra is joining manchester not manchester signing ibra haha big strong elite gypsy statpadder trust me guys i know football he's really good xd
Nicholas Walker
Larsson always appeared to be a good guy, Ibrahim is a huge asshole.
Connor Wilson
ibrahimovic is perfect for all these 15 year old idiots who would love to suck his dick, they were born in 2001 and are too lazy to do a bit of research, fucking idiots
so yeah, as this guy mentioned before, larsson destroys anything ibra did
Owen Anderson
>le score bicycLe kicks in irrelevant games manxD
Nolan Hernandez
>mfw GRENOLI got btfo by Pele >mfw they think Larsson is better than Ibra Seriously, he won Serie A with three different teams. Juve was a top squad, Inter hadn't won anything for more than a decade, Milan was in Ibra's shadow for the entirety of his stay at previously mentioned clubs. >But GRENOLI They where lucked out to come out of Sweden who were not fucked by WW2. Ibra took himself out of fucking Muslimville to the world stage, although all of Jante-Sweden told him to fuck off.
Jose Collins
>yfw he let Shevchenko score a corner and outperform him two games before retirement >yfw he missed a penalty in Euro 2004 that would have secured the game >yfw Larsson let them to a draw vs Englel including a 90th minute goal in 2006 >yfw Larsson scored in every major tournament he played in, including 1994 >yfw Larsson never had a performance as useless as Ibra this year >yfw
Aaron Hall
*led them to a draw
and take a guess who wasn't playing that day
Andrew Fisher
Ibra has like 8 goals in 40 CL knockout games, absolute meme player
Adam Edwards
Celtic was a relevant team when Larsson was there. They were paying comparable wages to top European clubs (£50k p/w) at the time. It's only relatively recently when the astronomical increase in players' wages started and all clubs outside the EPL and a handful in Europe became the economical elite.
Gabriel Sanchez
Zlatan has won 10 Guldbollar, awarded to the best swedish player. Henrik Larson 2. No one else has won more than 2.
Ian Reyes
Those awards were all for his performance for clubs and because Larsson was in Scotland, he can't compare to Larsson internationally whatsoever.
Aiden King
Won the Scudetto with a team that was cheating went to Inter who was handed the league thanks to not being caught in their cheating.
Serie A after calciopoli was and is still pretty irrelevant
Henry Sanders
NICKY LARSON NICKY LARSON
Jonathan Martin
Doesnt matter if it was in Scotland. It's still for the best Swedish player, so obviously there were better swedes than Larsson. And you people claim he was better than Ibra. Top laugh mate.
7th all time top scorer, tied with Schevchenko 3rd all time assist 1st for most red cards
Owen James
When has Ibra had a better international showing than Larsson in 2002 or 2004?
And 8 goals in 40 knockout games is an embarrassment
Zachary Howard
>football hipsters
Charles Gutierrez
2004 would'nt even have happened if it hadn't been for Zlatan, especially the backheel against Italy.
Colton Kelly
it also would have continued if he didn't sky the penalty in the shootout, guess who made his?
Larsson literally scored in every major international tournament he played in while Ibra was disappearing like this year or couldn't mark the corpse of Shevchenko in 2012
Dylan Walker
lol you're praising him for not being loyal
he's a fucking moneywhore
also: chiellini killed him
Andrew Gonzalez
Zlatan has ruined any kind of chance of swedish success for the last 7 years or so.
>Always need the ball >Hamrén forces players to ALLWAYS pass Zlatan despite it being the worst alternative. If you don't pass Zlatan at all times you will get replaced by sandniggers like Zengin and Durmaz because they love to suck Zlatans dick >Always standing 5 meters offside >Can't run, even in a 1v1 situation where he got some meters on the defender, he will stop and let the other team come home and defend >Will always try to do some retarded shit at the edge of the box, lose the ball, strech his hands out to the sides and not help get the ball back he just lost
Larsson played simple, effective and for the team.
Hell I would even say Allbäck was better for Swedens success than Zlatan.
But I guess you are just anpther one of them JOGA BONITO ROSENGÅRD BROR types that don't actually understand that when your a small country with lacking qualities, you need to work as a team - see Island, not as a one man show
Zachary Nelson
But did you see those stats at PSG OP? Did you? That's all that matters to those runts.
Ian Turner
Ibra rates Larsson above him just sayin
Colton Flores
Um Larsson never had a 90 Fifa card.
Cooper Perez
Is this true? I honestly can't believe he would put someone else above him, specifically a countryman
Tyler Gray
>stat padder in a two team league >vs. a league champion with 6~ different clubs
Aaron Nguyen
>It's Ibra's fault all other teammates suck donkey dick Of course it is mates. That's why sweden yes
Austin Torres
>unironically calling someone else a statpadder in a conversation about Ibra
Larsson came on as a sub in the CL final past his peak and won the game for Barcelona, when has Ibrahimovic done that in a CL final?
Tyler Thomas
oh shit my memory was blurry
he actually said Larsson was the best forward he played together
Ethan Baker
They're both top class. Larsson was prettier on the pitch though.
They're pretty impressive as a matter of fact.
Kayden Bell
Ah yes, very impressive doing big numbers when your team is 5 times better than second.
John Young
Larsonn isn't the best Swedish player and neither is Ibra
That award belongs to either Gunnar Nordahl or Nils Liedholm
Brayden Watson
I never said he was, I asked why Swedes rated Ibra ahead of Larsson despite Larsson performing far better for the NT
Josiah Russell
Nice meme.
Bentley Turner
>Ibra is the greatest footballer Sweden has seen and it's not even something that's up for debate Not even close Gunnar Nordahl an Nils Liedholm existed after all
Adrian Scott
>mfw GRENOLI got btfo by Pele More like GRELI since Nordahl was retired from International Football by then and didn't play in 1958
And being btfo by the best player of all time is no shame Ibra couldn't even dream of making it to a WC Final
Nolan King
Nordahl.. Don't forget that athletes get better as time goes on, they don't get worse
A 1950 Nordahl wouldn't have a chance against the 2016 defenders So - shouldn't you praise the players that were able to score tons of goals against these 200x defenders (Larsson, NOT Ibra)?
Oliver Gray
Past-it Shevchenko beat Ibra at the Euro's Ibra doesn't even begin to compare to a Prime Shevchenko who was destroying big teams left and right in Champions League
Leo Baker
Let's be honest the ref won Barca that game
James Cox
Larsson came on, got two assists, and changed the game
You said Ibra couldn't dream of making it to a WC final, forget that, he couldn't dream of making it to a CL final
Nathaniel Scott
because larsson played in the >scottish """premier""" league all his life
Joseph Fisher
Yes and when he played for Barcelona/United/International tournaments he was class
When has Ibrahimovic won a CL final for his club?
Alexander Robinson
5 times capocannonieri motherfucker If it was so easy other strikers at the time would have achieved it
He also won Sweden the Olympics(but sadly never participated in a World Cup)
As for in "muh today's game" I think he'd fair just fine because he was tall and very strong physically
Jackson Ortiz
You can't take some cunt who plays at Celtic seriously.
Daniel Gutierrez
see We're not talking about a babby like Kris Boyd or osme shit
Samuel Foster
>be henrik larsson >be top class striker >waste your career at celtic, feyenoord and helsingborgs anyway
lmao the absolute madman
Luke Hughes
He was hardly a key-player for Barca in the rest on the games
And it was fucking Arsenal...come on...even Ibra scored 2 goals against them for Barca and destroyed them when he was playing for Milan
>inb4 but Arsenal was stronger back then It doesn't matter Arsenal are chokers
Brandon Campbell
Still were much better back then and Larsson had an amazing performance in a game more relevant than Ibra ever played in
Samuel Hill
In a game where Barca probably wouldn't have won if not for the ref
Easy to play against 10 men most of the game
Bentley Nguyen
im not sure what youre implying. lehmann didnt deserve red?
Goal should've stood instead of giving Lehmann the red That was absolute bullshit
He came in and changed the game when he was fresh and every Arsenal players was tired as fuck...you're greatly exaggerating the performance
Landon Lee
ronaldinho was invisible in that final and barcelona did nothing even with an extra player on the pitch
the player that did most overall was ljungberg henry the big game bottler missed two sitters
Connor Long
Was Henry exaggerating it as well?
The fact is he won a CL for Barca that night while Ibra never got close
Leo Green
Better than fat Ronaldo.
Won a CL, so he must be, right?
Adam Wood
Well no, Ronaldo had more success for his national team than Larsson
Ibra? I can't say the same
Evan Campbell
>muh CL So Henry is also a subpar striker, right? I mean he had to move to Barca to get carried to one just before retiring.
Noah Foster
Why are you acting like him winning the CL is the basis of the argument? That didn't even come into play until recently, didn't even bring it up in the OP
Joshua Roberts
What is then? NT performance, for a NT that didn't come close to winning anything with either of them?
Dominic Jenkins
Nothing about Larsson being a better player than Ibra in the OP
Larsson did far more for Sweden than Ibra, but yet most of them rate Ibra higher. It's like for example if you rate Ribery higher than Griezmann despite Griezmann already oding more for the country, I wouldn't get it
Oh and they got 3rd in 94 with Larsson's shot off the crossbar leading to a goal vs Cameroon being the reason they made it out of groups
Jace Carter
and he scored the penalty to get them through to the semis
Owen Williams
Different teams though, and Ibra still scored a lot more than Larsson for the NT.
Aaron Cruz
Larsson was better than him in 2004 and 2006 and they were both playing
And in friendlies/qualifiers maybe. Larsson scored a goal at every international tournament he was at and had 9 total, Zlatan has 6. Ibra never played a tournament as good as Larsson in 2002 and Larsson never had one as useless as this year