HE’S GENERALLY REGARDED as one of the best footballers on the planet so it’s not something he ever had to worry about.

However, if Zlatan Ibrahimovic hadn’t managed to make a career from the beautiful game, he says he may have ended up kicking faces instead of footballs.

In an interview with Bleacher Report, the Paris St Germain striker was asked what he would have been if he hadn’t become a footballer.

“My father wanted me to be a lawyer but I have a hard time seeing me as a lawyer,” Ibrahimovic said. “But I’m a huge UFC fan, so probably something within the UFC or martial arts. I would see myself good in that.”

Zlatan is actually a black belt in taekwondo, which he earned in his hometown of Malmo when he was 17.

Back in January, he took to Facebook to extend his commiserations to Sweden’s biggest MMA star, Alexander Gustafsson, after his defeat to Anthony ‘Rumble’ Johnson.

The 33-year-old has also brought his martial arts skills into football, as he revealed in 2011 when demonstrating the well-known ‘funt in the backside’ technique on Swedish team-mate Christian Wilhelmsson during a training session.

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