“Zlatan teammate: ”Took three weeks before he knew my name””

“Tell us about the special start of the Galaxy”

“Zlatan Ibrahimovic was forced to go through the ”death tunnel”.”

“And had great trouble to learn the names of the teammates.”

“A year after the debut of the Galaxy tells the spelarkollegorna on the hearts of swedes special start in the club.”

“– It took three weeks before he knew my name, ” says Chris Pontius.”

“30 march 2018 made Zlatan Ibrahimovic’s first match in the LA Galaxy.”

“He jumped in, stood for a drömmål and then nodded into the decision against the rival Los Angeles FC.”

“a year and a day after drömdebuten tells lagkamraterna Chris Pontius and Sebastian Lletget on the hearts of swedes very special start in the club.”

“quite scary””

“Sportbladet wrote about in conjunction with the debut, he was forced, therefore, get through the ”death tunnel”.”

“the Ritual – as all the new players in the Galaxy are exposed to – is that the team forms a ”gatulopp” that the new acquisition will have to run through, at the same time as the player hits, kicks or throws water on him.”

“– We always do so with the new guys. We give them some beating, ” said Ashley Cole in the last year.”

“Now admits Galaxy-midfielder Chris Pontius that he was worried about how the hot-headed head coach would handle the situation”

“– I assume that the no hit Zlatan so hard that he could become irritable. I thought really not be the one who did it, so I gave him a careful pat. He is a pretty scary guy, ” says Pontius to ESPN.”

“Sebastian Lletget, also midfielders in the team, wish he had kicked it harder.”

” If we had known ”Ibra” in the past, if we knew his personality better, we would have kicked it harder. But we knew not what we would expect. Now the past we have always fun together.”

“did not learn the names.”

“the Swede will also have had big problems to learn the names of their new teammates.”

“For Chris Pontius, it took about three weeks.”

“– It took three weeks before he knew my name. Even after that, there were a couple of guys whose names he touched to quite proper, which was pretty fun. He called Perry Kitchen for ”Kevin” in the type a month.”

“During the night of Monday did 37-year-old Ibrahimovic comeback after their hälskada. He slammed in two goals from the penalty spot and became the hero when the Galaxy beat the Portland Timbers 2-1.”