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Zlatan’s lament: ‘I’m not used to winning nothing’

AC Milan striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic has spoken of his disappointment after missing out on the feeling of winning a league title for the first time since 2003.

Zlatan's lament: 'I'm not used to winning nothing'

Juventus claimed the Serie A crown on Sunday as they beat Cagliari 2-0 and Milan crashed 4-2 to Inter in their city derby.

And not since failing to win the Eredivisie title with Ajax in 2003 has Ibrahimovic experienced a fruitless year.

“I’m not used to winning nothing — it’s the first time it’s happened to me,” he said, perhaps forgetting some of his earlier years in the game, when he won nothing with Swedish side Malmö.

“I’m disappointed. It’s a failure.”

Technically, 2006 was the last time he failed to win the title as Juventus were stripped of their 2005 and 2006 scudetto crowns due to match-fixing.

However, at the time, Ibrahimovic experienced the thrill of winning as those two titles were only revoked later on.

He feels Milan could have won the title this year had it not been for their well-documented injury problems.

“If we’d had a full squad, we’d have had a better chance of winning,” he said.

“Juventus have had a fantastic season and I congratulate them but we gifted them the title a bit because it was in our hands.”

Milan had led by four points before a draw and a defeat handed the initiative to Juve, who never let it go.

As for his own future, Ibrahimovic refused to clarify rumours linking him with a move to Real Madrid.

“I want to win and everything depends on what Milan want. I have no doubts about myself but I want to understand what the club wants to do,” he said.

“There was a great Milan project. We’ll see if they take it forwards. I hope they do.”

That could be taken as a warning to Milan that he may opt to leave if they cannot match his ambition.

Despite winning winning three titles with Inter, two with Ajax and one each with Milan and Barcelona, Ibrahimovic has never won the Champions League.

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Romanian billionaire and seven others die in Milan plane crash

A light aircraft piloted by Romanian billionaire Dan Petrescu crashed into an empty office building near Milan on Sunday, killing him, his wife and son, and all five others aboard.

Police and rescue teams outside the office building where a small plane crashed in the Milan suburb of San Donato.
Police and rescue teams outside the office building where a small plane crashed in the Milan suburb of San Donato on October 3rd. Photo: Miguel Medina/AFP

The single-engine Pilatus PC-12 had taken off from Milan’s Linate airport shortly after 1pm headed for Olbia in the north of the Italian island of Sardinia.

It crashed just a few minutes later into a building in San Donato Milanese, a town southeast of Milan, according to aviation agency ANSV, which has opened an investigation.

Witnesses said the plane was already in flames before it crashed into an office building undergoing renovations.

Petrescu’s 65-year-old wife, who also had French nationality, and their son Dan Stefano, 30, were killed.

Italian media identified the other passengers as entrepreneur Filippo Nascimbene, a 33-year-old from Lombardy, with his wife, young son and mother-in-law, who have French nationality.

Petrescu, 68, was one of Romania’s richest men. He headed a major construction firm and owned a string of hypermarkets and malls. He also held Germany nationality, the Corriere della Sera newspaper reported.

Flames engulfed the two-storey building, next to the yellow line subway terminus.

“The impact was devastating,” Carlo Cardinali, of the Milan fire brigade, told news agency Ansa.

Deputy prosecutor Tiziana Siciliano was quoted by Corriere as saying that the plane’s black box had been recovered.

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