Zlatan Ibrahimović: Made By Sweden Ad

25 Jan

Bummer! It’s only two minutes long, but what a glorious 2 minutes it is! And the whole family is there too: Evil Super Bitch Deluxe aka Helena, Maximilian and Vincent!

– Lozil

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9 Responses to “Zlatan Ibrahimović: Made By Sweden Ad”

  1. maisoun January 25, 2014 at 2:43 pm #

    Is it safe to say the translation for ad is something like “I am a man….ze only real man. Zlatan.”

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  2. Christine January 25, 2014 at 4:29 pm #

    I’m at the Volvo dealer now. What??? What do you mean he doesn’t come with the deluxe package. Arghhh Damn you!!!

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  3. Anonymous January 26, 2014 at 4:50 am #

    Loved it! Well, for me it’s really hard not to love everything that includes Zlatan someway haha 😀

    Btw, for those who are wondering about what he says, the words he spokes are from Swedish national anthem. There is probably English translation somewhere in the internet.

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    • Sara January 26, 2014 at 4:03 pm #

      Yep, as anonymous stated above, the text that Zlatan reads is the Swedish national anthem. The translation would be something like this:

      “Thou ancient, thou free and mountainous North
      Thou quiet, thou joyful beauty.
      I greet thee, most beautiful land upon earth,
      Thy sun, thy sky and meadows green
      Thou rest upon memories of great olden days,
      When honored thy name flew across the world,
      I know that thou are and will be as thou were,
      Yes, I want to live and I want to die in SWEDEN
      Yes, I want to live and I want to die in SWEDEN”

      In the original text, the last to strophes are “Yes, I want to live and I want to die in the North”, but to make it more suitable to the context here I guess, they (I like to think it was Zlatans own choice 😉 ) have changed it to “Sweden” instead.

      (Not that I think that anyone here is really interested, but I´ll wright this anyway…The reason to why the Swedish national anthem doesn´t end with “die in Sweden” – when not being read by Zlatan, of course… – is because of a rhyme. “…flew across the world” is “flög över jorden” in Swedish and to make that rhyme with the last strophe, the anthem ends with “dö i norden”. Which in English is “die in the North” or even “die in the Nordic Countries”. Every once in a while it´s actually debated in Sweden why the national anthem has such a vague ending, and not a more nationalistic one. I like to think that Zlatan just made his own choice here… Just like Zlatan normally does 😀 )

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      • maisoun January 26, 2014 at 4:19 pm #

        What a pretty anthem! I loved the explanation too, that was very interesting. Thanks for that 🙂

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      • headbandsandheartbreak January 26, 2014 at 5:57 pm #

        This is so fantastic – thank you for the translation and explanation – it definitely adds to the video for me now. 🙂

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  4. mygypsyspirit January 26, 2014 at 7:48 pm #

    Gimme! Gimme! (Zlatan, not the car)

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