The Weekly Pick: Zlatan Ibrahimovic

Ever since he arrived at Barca, Ibrahimovic has been greatly celebrated by the club and fans. And although, as with any new signing, he must prove himself on the team, Ibra has already caught our interest because he is no ordinary player. We never took the time to really get to know him before he joined Barca, but now that he has, every day we learn something new and extraordinary about him...

- We are taken aback by the utter hugeness of this man. The hight, the huge physique, huge feet, huge nose - and you know what they say about guys with big noses. He's also flexible to extreme and shocking extents: we don't get how he does this without his legs and back snapping.

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- He's obsessed with tattoos. Ibra has got no less than eleven of them, strewn over his body, most of which are symbolic - we like the white ink one over his stomach, although according to Ibra himself, it was the most painful.

- The dude is a car fanatic. He collects them like you might collect football shirts - and he's got good taste too. What we would do for that Ferrari Spider...

- He's quite the family man. Married to model Helen Seger with whom he shares two adorable sons, Maximilian and Vincent, says Ibra: "I'm very much a family person and I like travelling with them to explore the world." We don't know just what it is about footballers this devoted to their families, but somehow we just love it.

- Ibra is probably on of the most interesting players out there. Apart from the aforementioned traveling, he's totally into Formula 1, martial arts and Tae Kwon Do in particular, video games, fishing... you name it.

- You have to admire his level of enthusiasm for Barca. Injury kept him from getting into action right away once he joined the club, but even with his hand in a cast Ibrahimovic was at every training, watching from the side and getting to know the players and staff. Once he was allowed to start training, he almost hurt his hand again in his eagerness - we're sure that once he starts playing actual matches, Ibra won't let us down.