Zlatan Ibrahimovic says he always knew he would "take over the world" and spoke of his delight at the Swedish Football Association's plans to build a statue of him that will reside outside the Friends Arena in Stockholm.
The Manchester United striker has proved one of Sweden's greatest exports, winning league titles in Netherlands, Italy, Spain and France.
The exuberant striker also enjoyed a distinguished international career before his retirement after Euro 2016 and is Sweden's all-time leading goalscorer.
Ibrahimovic will now be immortalised by the monument and he is delighted by the gesture.
"I come from a small area in Malmo - the ghetto, they call it - and I get a statue in the capital city of Sweden," Ibrahimovic told United's official website.