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“MIDO NEARLY HIT ME WHEN HE THREW SOME SCISSORS AT ZLATAN. I SHOUTED, ‘DUDE, YOU NEARLY TOOK MY EYE OUT’”

Your nickname is ‘Schillo’. Why?

It was after the 1990 World Cup – Salvatore Schillaci played very well [winning the Golden Boot] and I always told my friends I wanted to be like him. So when I began to make it as a footballer, that’s what most people started calling me: ‘Schillo’.

You played with Zlatan Ibrahimovic at Ajax – what was that like?

Zlatan was a huge character in the dressing room, and he was a really nice guy. We both arrived at Ajax at the same time: we quickly became good friends and were]

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