How Signing Zlatan Ibrahimovic Changed Everything for Paris Saint-Germain

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As Zlatan Ibrahimovic’s introductory press conference drew to a close inside the Parc des Princes auditorium, Paris Saint-Germain marketing director Michel Mimran quietly slipped out of a door at the back of the room.

Dressed in a dark grey suit and an open-necked white shirt, he left the stadium and hopped on the back of a black moped driven by his assistant, Jose Moury. It was a hot July afternoon in western Paris and within minutes the pair were speeding down Avenue Georges-Mandel in the shade cast by the horse-chestnut trees that flank the road. Out of all the people involved in Ibrahimovic’s unveiling as a PSG player, they were among the few…