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Sweden’s postal service yesterday began selling stamps featuring Paris Saint-Germain striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic, drawing strong interest from fans as well as collectors.
“We have sold five million stamps in advance and that is a lot,” Posten’s head of stamps, Britt-Inger Hahne, told news agency TT.
Out of the five stamps, three are from the Sweden-England friendly in November 2012 when the Swedish star scored four times to give his side a 4-2 win, saving his most spectacular goal—an outrageous long-range bicycle kick—for last.
“The French are particularly interested. One customer ordered 1,500 packages ... for his French friends,” Hahne said in a statement.
“Zlatan has a unique position on the pitch, among his fans and now also on the stamps,” she added.
“It’s a great honour,” Ibrahimovic said in a statement released by the postal service in November last year.
“Personally, I mostly receive bills and they rarely have any pretty stamps. Maybe that will change now,” he added.
There are no comments.
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