ITALY: SOCCER / FOOTBALL - Swedish international Zlatan Ibrahimovic joins Inter Milan from Juventus

Swedish international Zlatan Ibrahimovic was presented to the media by Inter Milan on Thursday (August 10) the latest player to have signed for the club from Juventus. The 24-year-old signed a four year contract for 24.8 million Euro deciding to leave Juventus following the club's demotion into Serie B following Italy's soccer scandal on match rigging. Juventus had the last two league league titles taken away from them as punishment for their role in the match-fixing saga. "I feel like a champion still, and for the last two years I am a champion and I still feel like a champion and to take that away from us, from the players they will not accept, because still we feel like champions," Ibrahimovic told a news conference on Thursday. 'We fought every day, we trained every day, we played every week and we did our best for the club and for ourselves and we won the title but that is past and now it is new. Every day that comes is a new day and we have to look in front' he said. Juventus were also relegated to Serie B of the national league. 'That Juve wanted to keep me I am very happy but the situation is different because they play in Serie B and I would be without Champions League and the big games which I like, which is today's football and the top football, we found a good solution' he said explaining why he was happy to have signed for Inter. 'Now they have six strikers and all six are good, I don't know who will fit with me but I came to Inter to win and who I win with doesn't matter.' Ibrahimovic will join the likes of Brazilian striker Adriano and Argentinian Hernan Crespo in his new squad.

ITN Source | August 11, 2006

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