SWEDEN’S POSTAL SERVICE today began selling stamps featuring Paris Saint-Germain striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic, drawing strong interest from fans as well as collectors.
“We have sold five million stamps in advance and that is a lot,” Posten’s head of stamps, Britt-Inger Hahne, told news agency TT.
Out of the five stamps, three are from the Sweden-England friendly in November 2012 when the Swedish star scored four times to give his side a 4-2 win, saving his most spectacular goal — an outrageous long-range bicycle kick — for last.
“The French are particularly interested. One customer ordered 1,500 packages … for his French friends,” Hahne said in a statement. ”Zlatan has a unique position on the pitch, among his fans and now also on the stamps,” she added.
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“It’s a great honour,” Ibrahimovic said in a statement released by the postal service in November last year. ”Personally, I mostly receive bills and they rarely have any pretty stamps. Maybe that will change now,” he added. Maybe it will, Zlatan.
You can buy Zlatan postage stamps now, Sweden
SWEDEN’S POSTAL SERVICE today began selling stamps featuring Paris Saint-Germain striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic, drawing strong interest from fans as well as collectors.
“We have sold five million stamps in advance and that is a lot,” Posten’s head of stamps, Britt-Inger Hahne, told news agency TT.
Out of the five stamps, three are from the Sweden-England friendly in November 2012 when the Swedish star scored four times to give his side a 4-2 win, saving his most spectacular goal — an outrageous long-range bicycle kick — for last.
“The French are particularly interested. One customer ordered 1,500 packages … for his French friends,” Hahne said in a statement. ”Zlatan has a unique position on the pitch, among his fans and now also on the stamps,” she added.
“It’s a great honour,” Ibrahimovic said in a statement released by the postal service in November last year. ”Personally, I mostly receive bills and they rarely have any pretty stamps. Maybe that will change now,” he added. Maybe it will, Zlatan.
- © AFP, 2014
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