Just one day to join, Ibrahimovic scored the first goal for AC Milan

Zlatan Ibrahimovic did not take long to immediately tune in with his team-mates at AC Milan.

Arriving in the city of Milan on Thursday (01/01/2020), Zlatan Ibrahimovic immediately took part in the AC Milan friendly match on Friday (1/3/2020) morning local time.

AC Milan underwent a closed trial match with the sixth caste club, Rhodense at Millanello.

In a closed match, AC Milan recorded a 9-0 victory.

From the start, AC Milan had fielded their best squad with goalkeeper Gianluigi Donnarumma, 4 defenders consisting of Davide Calabria, Mateo Mussacchio, Alessio Romagnoli and Theo Hernandez.

In midfield, there are 3 midfielders consisting of Lucas Paqueta, Ismael Bennacer and Giacomo Bonaventura.

While the front lines were filled with trio of Hakan Calhanoglu, Suso and Zlatan Ibrahimovic.

Davide Calabria scored the first two goals, before he provided an assist for the Rossoneri's new player, Zlatan Ibrahimovic who made it 3-0.

After that, Ibrahimovic also contributed an assist for Hakan Calhanoglu who scored the fourth goal.

Lucas Paqueta gave Milan a 5-goal lead before the end of the first half.

In the second half, Stefano Pioli replaced 11 players.

But Milan's aggressiveness did not go down. They scored 4 additional goals through Krzysztof Piatek (2 goals), Rafael Leao and Samu Castillejo.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic will wear his jersey number 21 in his second phase of defending the Rossoneri this time.

Previously the 38-year-old striker had defended Milan in the interval 2010 to 2012.

To Milan TV, Ibrahimovic revealed why he chose costume number 21.

"Because that is the number my oldest child chose," Ibrahimovic said.

"I showed all the numbers available to my children and they chose 21. So, I also used 21," continued Ibra.

"My goal is to help the club improve the situation. On an individual level, I want to look my best."

Ibrahimovic was introduced by AC Milan on Thursday (02/01/2020). In that moment he expressed his happiness to return to the club based in the San Siro.

"I remember arriving at this same place many years ago," Ibrahimovic was quoted as saying by BolaSport.com from Mirror.

"What's important now is that I'm back and I'm happy. I always say this is my home and I'm finally back."

"I have played for other teams and finally I came back and that's all that matters," he added.

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