If Zlatan Ibrahimovic wants to collect his millions in soccer and keep quiet about political issues, he can go right ahead.
But then he should take his own advice and shut up and play.
Instead, the Swedish soccer star has taken it upon himself to criticize big-name athletes who are using their platforms to try and improve communities, lobby politicians and become leaders outside their realm of sport.
LeBron James is Ibrahimovic’s main target. Ibrahimovic believes athletes should be athletes and let the politicians be the politicians.
That’s all well and good but a caller to the Green Zone nailed it when he called the soccer player’s comments trash.
The caller simply stated that maybe more athletes would stick to athletics if the politicians were any good at being politicians.
I really couldn’t have said it any better than that.