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After Training Stint, Zlatan Ibrahimovic Leaves Behind Hope of a Return to Play in Sweden

STOCKHOLM (AP) — Zlatan Ibrahimovic returned to Italy on Monday and is set to spend time in quarantine before training with AC Milan ahead of the potential return of the Serie A season.

He leaves behind plenty of questions in his native Sweden.

Ibrahimovic has been keeping up his fitness by training with Hammarby, the Stockholm-based club in which he bought a nearly 25% stake last year in his controversial first move into soccer ownership. He has practiced with Hammarby’s men’s and women’s teams, including playing a training match, because Sweden is not under strict lockdown measures during the coronavirus pandemic.