TERESÓPOLIS, June 10 — Dani Alves is a former, and possible future, team-mate of Zlatan Ibrahimovic, and the Brazil full-back is hoping to see the big striker at the World Cup despite Sweden’s failure to qualify for the finals.
“Ibrahimovic is a special person, someone I like very much. It is a shame Sweden didn’t qualify but he is welcome to come here and watch the World Cup,” Alves said when asked by a Swedish journalist about a campaign to get the Paris Saint-Germain striker to attend the tournament in Brazil.
The duo played together at Barcelona in the 2009-10 season and, although Alves refused to answer questions on the matter at the Brazil training camp, they could be re-united at PSG next season.
Alves has been heavily linked with a close-season move to the French champions, where his national team colleagues Thiago Silva, David Luiz and Maxwell already ply their trade, and he did little to play down speculation in a recent interview with the French magazine Surface, saying: “If I have to leave Barcelona, they are a possible alternative for me.”
The 31-year-old has one year remaining on his contract at the Camp Nou. — AFP
