Zlatan Ibrahimovic has arrived to England. People has noticed…
Ibrahimovic has played four games for his new club Manchester United and he has score five goals so far. An overhead kick goal in his first game against Galatasaray. Then Zlatan scored the 2-1 winner in the Community Shield final against Leichester.
Last week he score another goal in the Premiere League win 3-1 against Bournemouth away.
Yesterday Ibra scored both goals in his premiere at home at Old Trafford – the Theathre of Dreams – when Manchester United won 2-0 against the last season league number six, Southampton.
The first goal on a magnificiant header and the second on a penalty. In total three goals in two league games.
What is most amazing to me is that English media is surprised that Ibra is dominating also the Premiere League. People said, he is too old, he will not be able to handle the more physical game in England. This was naturally totally crazy.
Ibrahimovic has dominated the leagues in Netherlands, Italy, Spain and France before. He has scored everywhere. He has now been involved in 53 goals in his last 32 league games (41 Goals, 12 Assists). He has 31 titles in five coubtries. He has won the league 12 out of the last 14 seasons.
He is not too old. As he said himself in a commercial, “I am just warming up”.
The creadible journalist Martin Samuel – who used to be a Zlatan-critic, writes in Daily Mail that there is a new sheriff in town.
“Rooney lives in Zlatan’s world now. And in Zlatan’s world only one man gets to take the penalties. Here’s a clue: it’s not Wayne Rooney”.
Yesterday the most expensive football player ever Paul Pogba made his first appearence in his new club. The result was outstanding.
With Ibrahimovic and Pogba in the team Manchester United will be dangerous both in the Premiere League and UEFA Europe League.
Which is the world’s most innovative country? Answering this question is the aim of the annual Global Innovation Index and a related report, which were published recently by Cornell University, INSEAD, a business school, and the World Intellectual Property Organisation.
The ranking of 140 countries and economies around the world, which are scored using 79 indicators, is not surprising: Switzerland, Britain, Sweden, the Netherlands and America lead the pack. But the authors also look at their data from other angles, for instance how countries do relative to their economic development and the quality of innovation (measured by indicators such as university rankings). In both cases the results are more remarkable. The chart below shows that in innovation many countries in Africa punch above their economic weight.
There are some very interesting trends in this years’ analysis.
“My country Sweden is doing well, as always”
The chart indicates that, even though China is now churning out a lot of patents, it is still way behind America and other developed countries when it comes to innovation quality.
My personal prediction though is that this is going to change soon. We work with some Chinese partners that definitely have the drive and creativity to spearhead towards the top. I am sure they are not alone.
My favourite professor of all times, Albert Einstein used to say, ‘Innovation is more important than knowledge‘. I agree with him and I am happy to live in a country at the top of this list. I also do my very best to contribute to the results.
You can read the entire article and check the details of the study here (click on the link): The Global Innovation ranking
So I have entered the eye of hurricane. Rio de Janeiro, one of the most beautiful cities in the world has gone mad. It is the fever of the Olympic games that has arrived.
The Olympic Symbol at Copacabana
I am back in Brazil for work. The meetings take place in one of my favourite cities, Rio. Now let’s be honest, it is normally not one of the easiest cities to get around in logisticly speaking. During the Olympics? Well, it is not easier than normal.
In Rio I met a friend of mine, Patrick Ekwall, who works as host for a Swedish Olympic Television show
However I am impressed how well organized the games actually are, especially taking into account the present political situation and all the problems leading up to the games. The reason? Brazilians are just great people. And they are very proud. So they make it work. I love Brazil and the Brazilian people.
At the Temple of Football
Even though I haven’t had time due to work to see many of the competitions, naturally all bars, restaurants, streets are filled with television sets and happy people warching the games.
The mighty Maracana Stadium
And I managed to go to Maracana – the temple of football – to see the Olympic soccer final for women, when Sweden got a silver medal after 1-2 towards giants Germany.
“Maracana is the best football stadium in the world. It is magic”.
I also saw some of the Mens’ Trithlon competition just outside my hotel door on Avenida Atlantica by Copacabana.
Olympic Triathlon race at the streets of Rio de Janeiro
Also security has been great so far. Especially taking into account that RJ isn’t the safest city in the world normally, however this is more related to safety than security.
The immigration controls worked perfectly at the airports and the organization of security in the city has been better than expected. No major incidents so far – let’s pray that it stays that way. And make sure that it does.
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