Ibrahimovic was born in Malmö, Sweden as the son of immigrants from former Yugoslavia. His Bosniak father ,,efik was born in Bijeljina and his mother Jurka is a Bosnian Croat. His parents met in Sweden and Ibrahimovic grew up in Rosengård, a Malmö neighborhood known for its immigrant communities, where he also successfully completed junior high school (ninth grade). Although, thereafter admitted to Borgarskolan in Malmö, he soon discontinued high school in order to focus on his football career.[1] Ibrahimovic wanted to play for the Bosnian national soccer team in 2001 but was rejected by the FA. Ibrahimovic began playing football at the age of ten. His initial local club was called FK Balkan, whose participants unsurprisingly were Bosnian and Somalian immigrants of the Rosengård neighborhood[citation needed]. In 1995 he joined Malmö FF.InterIbrahimovic signed a four-year contract to Inter Milan for € 24.8 million on August 10, 2006.[2] He would go on to admit that Inter was a club he supported as a child, gaining him immediate popularity with the Inter supporters. He started his spell at the club with a good match against Fiorentina, assisting one goal and scoring another. After that he was somewhat inconsistent for a time, having notable troubles, along with the rest of the team, in the Champions League. However, after the spectacular 4-3 win in the derby against AC Milan everything worked out for Ibrahimovic and Inter. They went on to a record seventeen wins in a row in Serie A en route to Inter's first scudetto on the field since 1989 (having won Juventus' 2006 title as fallout from the Serie A scandal), and Ibrahimovic was coach Roberto Mancini's first choice in attack. Ibrahimovic's performances have prompted Mancini and Livorno striker Cristiano Lucarelli to compare him with the legend Marco van Basten.Ibrahimovic is 192 cm tall and powerfully built, and thus physical strength is one of his greatest assets. Since his arrival in Italy, he has become even stronger, since coach Fabio Capello, who is known to prefer physically strong players, ordered him to undergo a gym training program. It has been suggested by Ibrahimovic himself that he might have added a couple of kilos too much, and that this contributed to the poor form in the spring of 2006.Despite his towering physique and physical attributes, Ibrahimovic has also established himself as one of the finest dribblers in today's world of football.He is known to have excellent technique and ball control. This is evident as Ibrahimovic has scored goals with first time volleys which requires great amount of technique and ball control.[4]