{"id":4748,"date":"2014-09-05T02:52:11","date_gmt":"2014-09-05T02:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/?p=4748"},"modified":"2014-09-05T02:53:24","modified_gmt":"2014-09-05T02:53:24","slug":"ibrahimovic-breaks-swedish-record-in-style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/football\/ibrahimovic-breaks-swedish-record-in-style\/","title":{"rendered":"Ibrahimovic Breaks Swedish Record in Style"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Zlatan Ibrahimovic has become Sweden\u2019s all-time record goalscorer after scoring two goals in Thursday\u2019s international friendly against Estonia.<\/p>\n<p>Zlatan\u2019s brace took him to 50 goals and saw him overtake Scen Rydell on 49, who amassed his total in just 43 games.<\/p>\n<p>But that was in the 20s and 30s, an era in which the Swedes were known to hit cricket scores against the opponents of the day, so it feels like Zlatan\u2019s 50 in 99 were harder earned.<\/p>\n<p>And in true Zlatan style, he clinched the record with a slick golazo, slipping in a back-heel flick at the near post.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zlatan Ibrahimovic has become Sweden\u2019s all-time record goalscorer after scoring two goals in Thursday\u2019s international friendly against Estonia. Zlatan\u2019s brace took him to 50 goals and saw him overtake Scen Rydell on 49, who amassed his total in just 43 games. But that was in the 20s and 30s, an era in which the Swedes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[60,82],"tags":[37],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4748"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4748"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4750,"href":"https:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4748\/revisions\/4750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}