Tomasson
http://football.guardian.co.uk/euro2004/story/0,14577,1233636,00.html
"It's a tough group. Playing in Italy I know how much it means to the
people there. Football is like a religion to them. In fact, it is
bigger than a religion.
"I've been playing against Alessandro Nesta in training and we've
been joking about it. It's not going to be easy - not for him, not
for me. Nobody wants to lose the first game and there are bound to be
people who are a bit nervous."
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http://sport.scotsman.com/topics.cfm?tid=998&id=642592004
Then there were the public rows: with Milan defender Alessandro
Nesta, who called Ibrahimovic a "shit", to which the Swede responded
by saying: "He was scared I would ruin his eyebrows." And John Carew,
about whom Ibrahimovic taunted: "What he does with a football, I can
do with an orange."