My dad’s one of tennis’ GOATs… here’s what footballers with famous fathers have to do to succeed

LEO BORG has offered immoderate words of contented to Zlatan Ibrahimovic's lad arsenic helium looks to marque his mode up the shot ranks.

The 21-year-old's dada is five-time Wimbledon and six-time Roland Garros champ Bjorn Borg - 1 of the top tennis greats of each time.

But Borg's lookalike lad Leo is forging his ain vocation successful tennis.

The youngster lives successful his hometown Stockholm and progressed done the younker tennis ranks to vie astatine the inferior Grand Slams successful 2021.

Borg Jr is presently ranked 590 successful the satellite aft losing successful the archetypal circular against Alexandre Muller successful Sweden connected Tuesday night.

But the elder Borg, 68, is 1 of the sport's biggest ever stars - winning 11 Grand Slam titles earlier dramatically retiring aged conscionable 26.

Leo was asked to connection immoderate proposal to Ibrahimovic's son, Maximilian, who is attempting to travel successful his ain father's footsteps.

He said: "Maximilian and I are successful the aforesaid presumption with a celebrated father.

"You person to effort to absorption connected yourself and your ain development.

"I personally thin to play a small amended erstwhile I'm nether unit and hopefully helium feels the same.

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"But you person to absorption connected your ain improvement and your ain thing.”

Maximilian earned his first planetary call-up for Sweden's U18s astatine the commencement of the existent planetary break.

The 18-year-old made his nationalist squad debut against Japan earlier playing the United States connected October 11.

He signed his archetypal nonrecreational declaration with Serie A giants AC Milan earlier this twelvemonth and has scored 4 goals successful 7 appearances successful Primavera 1.

Ibrahimovic Snr retired from nonrecreational shot past twelvemonth pursuing a last three-season spell with the Rossoneri.

He established himself arsenic 1 of Sweden's all-time greats connected the planetary stage, netting 62 goals successful 122 outings.

Zlatan scored an unthinkable 573 vocation goals, including 29 goals successful 53 appearances for Manchester United.

Borg Jr was besides asked astir his leader Rafael Nadal's status from tennis this week.

On that, helium said: "He has ever been my biggest idol. He is astir apt the crushed wherefore I started playing tennis successful the archetypal place.

"He has a precise large spot successful my heart. Getting to conscionable him earlier helium decided to discontinue was immense for me. It was 1 of my biggest dreams and I volition retrieve that for the remainder of my life."

Borg faced Nadal successful July wherever helium narrowly missed successful a 6-3, 6-4 scoreline successful the archetypal circular of the ATP 250 earlier the Olympics.