We’ve been asked to believe before. When the bombastic Swede Zlatan Ibrahimovic came to play in Los Angeles in 2018, it was going to herald a new era for soccer in North America, just as it would when the legendary Ivorian Didier Drogba arrived in Montreal in 2015, and the mercurial Brazilian Kaka in Orlando, and the generationally talented Frenchman Thierry Henry in New York or the superstar Brit Wayne Rooney in D.C, all of them having followed David Beckham’s lead.
Gabriel DeBenedetti, NY Magazine
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