FOOTBALL: Zlatan Ibrahimovic smokes a cigar on pitch after leading Milan to Serie A win and 14th league title of his career

Zla­tan Ibrahi­movic puffed on a cig­ar after sup­port­ing AC Milan pip com­peti­tors Inter to the Serie A title on a dra­mat­ic very last day.

The Swede’s for­mer boss Car­lo Ancelot­ti brought about a sen­sa­tion while he posed for an icon­ic image with a cig­ar in his mouth on Real Madrid’s LaLi­ga name parade in advance this month.

But Ibrahi­movic did now no longer wait round via way of means of lights his at the pitch after the 3‑zero win at Sassuolo.

The 40-yr-old puffed away and held his fin­gers aloft in cel­e­bra­tion, absorb­ing the ado­ra­tion of Milan’s vis­it­ing fans.

Milan beat metrop­o­lis com­peti­tors Inter to the Serie A name after the pair bat­tled it out for top spot all sea­son long.

Ibrahi­movic has now received 34 tro­phies in an illus­tri­ous career, togeth­er with 14 league titles, sev­en of that have been in Italy.

The he received with Juven­tus have been famous­ly stripped away after the Turin giants have been dis­cov­ered respon­si­ble of fit solv­ing between 2004-06.

It changed into the pri­ma­ry home title for Milan due to the fact that Ibrahi­movic’s first spell with them in 2011, with the Swede depart­ing the club a yr after that success.

But he has back to assert the dig­ni­ty as soon as more, scor­ing 33 dreams in 60 match­es due to the fact that his trans­fer from LA Galaxy — togeth­er with 8 this term.

This name cer­tain­ly man­ner a extra­or­di­nary deal to the vet­er­an with the strik­er by chance smash­ing a win­dow at the group bus ulti­mate week as he egged on Milan sup­port­ers wel­com­ing their side’s arrival to the San Siro.

Ibrahi­movic’s deal is up on the stop of the sea­son and he ought to deter­mine now could be the prop­er time to dan­gle up his boots — hav­ing con­quered Italy but again.

But the celeb admit­ted the con­cept of retir­ing fills him with dread, and he does now no longer need to have any regrets.

He stat­ed of retire­ment: “I expe­ri­ence a piece of pan­ic at the pos­si­bil­i­ty of pre­vent­ing playing.

“For sure, I will retain so long as pos­si­ble, so long as I can get effects how­ev­er being true at the pitch, with out suffering.

“I don’t need to have regrets once I quit, so I need to max­i­mize my career.

“What will show up sub­se­quent I don’t know, as I write in my book I’m a bit scared. A func­tion in foot­ball? We’ll see while the day comes.

“I ought to begin once I pre­vent or take a break, or dis­ap­pear com­plete­ly. Of direc­tion the adren­a­line I expe­ri­ence in me I will in no way expe­ri­ence again.”