STOCKHOLM/MILAN: Zlatan Ibrahimovic could be poised for a return to national team football with Sweden five years after quitting following Euro 2016.

Media reports in Sweden have suggested that the 39-year-old Milan striker will play in the rescheduled Euro 2020 finals in June and July and will be called up for the next three matches later this month – on March 25 against Georgia, on March 28 against Kosovo – in the World Cup qualifying competition – and on March 31 in a friendly against Estonia.

Ibrahimovic’s criticism of national coach Janne Andersson long appeared an irreparable breach but it seems that time may have healed wounds on both sides.

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