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Being Angry With Zlatan Ibrahimovic After His Goal Outburst Is Stupid

Being Angry With Zlatan Ibrahimovic After His Goal Outburst Is Stupid

Don't be mad at Zlatan; being angry makes him feel good.

May 2, 2019 by Hunter Sharpless
Being Angry With Zlatan Ibrahimovic After His Goal Outburst Is Stupid

“When I get angry, I feel good.” 

Shockingly, LA Galaxy striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic, from whom those amazing words issued, made the news last weekend after his game-winning goal against Real Salt Lake, when he — immediately after the ball swelled in the back of the net — aggressively approached center back Nedum Onuoha and, uh, yelled in his face for a few moments. 

Here is the moment in all its glory:



Zlatan is like the perfect counterpart to Bruce Banner, but the exact opposite: Banner doesn’t actually like being the Hulk. That’s the whole thing of his role throughout the latter stages of the Avengers series . . . keeping “the green guy” at bay. Were Zlatan in Banner’s shoes, though, he’d apparently rather the green guy always be out. 

Here is how Onuoha felt after the game:



The affronted defender called the incident “unacceptable.” 

I don’t know, guys. In a world where there is literally an infinite amount of things about which to be legitimately upset and aggrieved — war, human rights abuses, rampant wealth inequality, etc. etc. etc. — I just have such a hard time getting upset at what amounts to adolescent males jockeying for position in a pack.