Zlatan Ibrahimovic couldn't make this summer's World Cup with Sweden, so he decided to send the country's intellectually disabled team to the INAS World Cup.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic pays to send intellectually disabled team to World Cup
Zlatan is still the best.
Martin Rose
The squad, often called “The Unknown Team,” qualified for the tournament but did not have the $51,000 to make the trip to Brazil. So, they called on big-name professionals to help raise money. Kim Kallstrom and Johan Elmander were among those who donated boots and shirts to be auctioned off, and then they asked Zlatan, who asked how much more they had to raise.
And then he donated it all.
“Football should be played by anyone, regardless of gender, disability or not,” Zlatan told the Swedish FA’s website. “And when we missed the World Cup, I was deeply disappointed, but when I heard about ‘The Unknown Team’ I said to myself that I wanted to do everything in my power to help them to experience the World Cup. There was nothing to think about. Now I get to experience the World Cup through them.”
It doesn’t matter what Zlatan does, he does it better than everyone else -- including sending Sweden to the INAS World Cup.
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