Zlatan Ibrahimovic voted Sweden's most popular athlete for fifth year in a row Kicking goals... Zlatan Ibrahimovic is a popular figure in Sweden. STAR striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic has been voted Sweden's most popular athlete in 2013 for the fifth year in a row, according to a poll by local newspaper Aftonbladet. "It makes you feel alive," Ibrahimovic told Aftonbladet. The 32-year-old Paris Saint-Germain player received 58.7 per cent of the vote. "This means that you've done something right and that you keep doing it," he said. You try to make everybody have a good time and remember you for what you did on the field. In second, third and fourth places came three Swedish cross-country skiers - Charlotte Kalla (45.7 per cent), Johan Olsson (13.4 per cent) and Marcus Hellner (12.0 per cent).