AC Milan forward Zlatan Ibrahimovic doubled down on his criticism of LeBron James on Tuesday and underscored his view that athletes should stay out of politics.
"Athletes unite the world, politics divide it," Ibrahimovic said at a news conference, per ESPN. "Our role is to unite the world by doing what we do best. Athletes should be athletes and politicians should do politics."
Ibrahimovic's latest comments come less than a week after he criticized James during an interview for Discovery+ in Sweden.
"[LeBron] is phenomenal at what he's doing, but I don't like when people have some kind of status, they go and do politics at the same time," Ibrahimovic said.