Ibrahimovic honoured with wax statue in Paris’s Musée Grévin‘The statue looks very focused, just like myself out there on the pitch’

Zlatan Ibrahimovic wants to see a statue of himself replace the Eiffel Tower after Paris’s Musée Grévin honoured the Swede with a waxwork on Monday.

Ibrahimovic became only the second footballer – after Pelé – to be immortalised by the renowned museum, which has recognised his exploits for Paris Saint-Germain, where the 33-year-old has scored 16 goals this season, having helped the club to back-to-back titles since arriving from Milan in 2012.

“It’s a big honour to have a statue in a great museum like the Grévin. I am very happy with it. The people can get really close to the statue and that was the objective,” Ibrahimovic told RMC. “The next step? I don’t know … Maybe replacing the Eiffel Tower with an Ibrahimovic statue …

“It’s an incredible feeling to get a statue at the Musée Grévin. The statue looks very focused, just like myself out there on the pitch. I can only be grateful for the fantastic job done. I am very proud to get this sort of recognition, especially as a Swede.”