IBRAHIMOVIC CALLED ON TO END ‘DARE TO ZLATAN’ CAMPAIGN

Paris Saint-Germain and Sweden superstar Zlatan Ibrahimovic has been called on to end his so-called ‘Dare To Zlatan’ campaign after fears it has spiraled out of control.

Two people have so far been killed attempting audacious footballing feats and it is worried that more may follow unless the campaign is ended.

21 year old Simon Francis from Eastbourne died whilst attempting an overhead kick jumping off a bridge over a bypass and his friend Marvin White, who initially ‘Dared’ Simon, died attempting his own ‘Dare To Zlatan’ when he tried a diving header over a tank of man-eating piranha.

The premise of the craze is to attempt an outrageous piece of skill and then ‘Dare’ your friends to do likewise, usually resulting in people trying to out-do one another and attempt something more outrageous than the person before.

One notorious ‘Zlatanation’ was this video of someone who had been ‘Dared’ successfully playing keepy-uppy across 6 lanes of motorway traffic and then turning on a sixpence and shooting the ball on the volley in to a goal back on the side that they started.

 People need to decide who they really want to emulate.

Now parents and other, less talented footballers are trying to step in to curb this craze before more people perish in their attempts to ‘Zlatan’. Mick Mills is chairperson of the ‘Dare To Cleverley’ foundation:

“It’s time that someone took a stand and spoke out against, what we can only hope, is a passing fad. Kids are out there trying to do ridiculous things with a football and it has to stop before more get hurt. I heard about one kid who broke his hand after setting fire to a football and then trying a bicycle kick whilst riding a unicycle. It’s utterly ludicrous.

We appreciate Ibrahimovic is a talented football player but he is a terrible role model, we’d much prefer kids were modeling themselves on someone like Tom Cleverley and just trying to complete passes over distances no more than 10 yards.”

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