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Zlatan Ibrahimovic scored his 500th goal for the club in AC Milan’s game against Crotone in Serie A on Sunday.
Their close-quarters finish after an impeccable one-two with Rafael Leao put the Serie A leaders 1-0 ahead at the half-hour mark with their 13th league goal of the campaign.
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Ibrahimovic scored his second in the 64th minute before Ante Rebic scored in the 69th and 70th minutes to complete a 4-0 victory for Milan.
Ibrahimovic, 39, has played for nine clubs in seven leagues during his 24-year career.
The former Swedish international began his career with Malmo in 1999 where he scored 18 goals.
In 2001, he moved to Ajax where he stayed for three seasons and scored 48 goals. He also won two league titles and a Dutch Cup.
In 2004, he moved to Juventus, where he won consecutive Serie A titles, although both were later revoked due to Calciopoli – and scored 26 goals.
After Juve’s relegation following the scandal, he moved to Inter Milan in 2006 and scored 66 in three seasons, winning Serie A each campaign.
He moved to Barcelona in 2009 and while it didn’t work out for him at Camp Nou, he won a La Liga title, a UEFA Super Cup and a FIFA Club World Cup, scoring 22 goals.
He first joined Milan in the summer of 2010 and stayed for two seasons where he won another Serie A title. He scored 56 in his first spell before joining Paris Saint-Germain in 2012.
It is in the French capital where he possibly made his biggest contribution with 156 goals in four seasons and a Ligue 1 title each. He also has two Coupe de France titles and three Coupes de la Ligue titles. He won a national treble in his last two seasons.
The 2015-16 campaign was Ibrahimovic’s most prolific of his career as he scored 50 goals in 51 appearances.
He left to join Manchester United in 2016 and won the EFL Cup and the Europa League by scoring 29 goals in his 18 months in the Premier League.
Ibrahimovic moved to the LA Galaxy from Major League Soccer in 2018 and scored 53 times in two seasons.
He returned to Milan in 2020 and his strike against Crotone was on the 26th of his second spell, raising his total for him. Rossoneri at 82.
He was the first player to reach the half-century mark for both San Siro clubs.
Ibrahimovic is one of only three active players, after Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi, who has scored 500 goals at the club level.
He also has 62 goals for the Swedish national team.
