Zlatan Ibrahimovic has said he believed he would "take over the world" even though he grew up in what he said was "a ghetto."
Manchester United striker Ibrahimovic was speaking after the Swedish FA revealed that a statue of him would be put up outside the Friends Arena in Stockholm.
The 35-year-old scored a record 62 goals in 116 appearances for Sweden before retiring from international duty in the summer.
Ibrahimovic, the son of a Croatian mother and Bosnian father, told MUTV: "I come from a small area in Malmo -- the ghetto, they call it -- and I get a statue in the capital city of Sweden.