Capello: I showed Ibrahimovic Van Basten videos.

Fabio Capello has revealed how he turned Zlatan Ibrahimovic into one of football's greatest goalscorers by showing him videos of Marco van Basten during his time in charge of Juventus.

The Russia boss spent two years working alongside the Sweden international between 2006 and 2008 and explained how the 33-year-old was a rough diamond who required a few minor tweaks before flourishing into his modern incarnation.

"Ibra has an awful lot of natural talent and it’s not hard at all to turn someone that gifted into a goal machine. All it took was to explain a few things to him," Capello told the official Fifa website.

"The rest is down to training hard every day, which is something he’s always done. He always did a lot of work on his finishing. When he started out he could kick the ball very hard but the quality wasn’t quite there. He wasn’t that great in the air either, so what he did was practise his heading over and over. His game really came on as a result.

"I called him over one day and I said to him: ‘You’re as good as Marco Van Basten. You’ve got the potential to be right up there with him, but I’m going to show you how he did it.’

I had someone make a video with all Van Basten’s goals. I showed it to him and I said: ‘You never get close to goal. If you want to score, you have to get close to the opposition goal. You’re always far away. You have fun creating play and you’re great at setting up your team-mates, but if you want to be a goalscorer, you’re going to have to play closer to the area.’

"He got the message very quickly."

Ibrahimovic has made over 300 goals during his time with Malmo, Ajax, Juventus, Inter, Barcelona, AC Milan, PSG and the Swedish national side.

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