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Africa-Press – South-Africa. <\/strong><\/span>Angry Swedish football fans are auctioning replicas of the sawn-off nose of a Zlatan Ibrahimovic statue to protest against the commercialisation of the sport and what they perceive as the star’s betrayal.<\/p>\n

Bids on website eBay hit $610 (568 euros) on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

The lifesize bronze statue of the Swedish superstar, erected in his hometown of Malmo in 2019, has been the target of numerous attacks since he invested in Stockholm-based football club Hammarby in November 2019, angering supporters of Malmo FF, the club where he began his professional career.<\/p>\n

The statue’s nose was sawn off in December 2019, with the feet going the following month, causing it to collapse against the barrier protecting it.<\/p>\n

Malmo FF fans said they had put three replicas of the original nose — which is still missing — up for auction “because choosing money over love can cost you dearly”.<\/p>\n

Ibrahimovic “chose money over love of his hometown and the club where he began his career”, they wrote on the specially-created website www.vararnasan.se, Swedish for “where is the nose”.<\/p>\n

“Football was originally a mass movement, but it has increasingly turned into a hyper-commercialised mass industry, where fans are seen as consumers and players and clubs are treated like merchandise”, they wrote.<\/p>\n

The sellers said they planned to use the profits from the auction on efforts to combat “modern and commercial football and promote a sport where the focus is on love for the clubs and the game”.<\/p>\n

The artist who made the bronze sculpture, Peter Linde, was upset about the auction.<\/p>\n

“The sellers complain that football is turning the game into big business, but they themselves are making money off a crime”, he told daily Sydsvenskan.<\/p>\n

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