Ibra's tentacles on AC Milan Zlatan has bid farewell to football after taking Milan and milanism

Despite numerous writings dating mainly from the 17th and 19th centuries reporting sightings and destroyed ships, no one is really convinced that the Kraken exists. It is considered to be a legendary creature, a figment of the imagination of captains and deckhands in the grip of hallucinations. Legends speak of tentacles up to thirty metres long, capable of breaking decks and sucking even the strongest of ships into the abyss, taking everything material into the sea, but also the fears of sailors who crossed the oceans, shaping their courage and respect for that blue void below the horizon line. 

Zlatan Ibrahimovic was not a hallucination and his legend is one that can easily be explained by reality, watching the videos of his many goals and the tears shed in the San Siro center when he announced his retirement from football after the AC Milan v Hellas game. Ibra's last three years at AC Milan are those of a kraken that has managed to stretch its tentacles over everything around him, without destroying ships but adjusting the course of a historic and elegant vessel that had been lost in the waves for a few years.

Of the kraken Ibra also always had the physicality, long legs, arms and feet, which he stretched with sudden, inhuman athletic gestures that often made the difference on the pitch. With the ground beginning to be seen on the horizon, with the last tentacle Zlatan also took the thrill, in spite of the hard, unscratchable image that has accompanied him over the years. With a sudden blow he took the tears of the Milanese people, of the players who grew up thanks to him and of the children who never really saw him play, overwhelmed by the scream of a stadium that knows how to recognise icons. 

Zlatan Ibrahimovic, at the most beautiful moment, gave Milan an emotional moment, after giving strength, pride and the idea that there was always something to fight for. Who knows if it is a legend that the kraken destroyed all those ships, who knows if instead the kraken all those ships always helped them to the coast, asking the sailors to tell frightening stories ashore, to keep the myth high, to keep the courage high, until the next extraordinary tale.