Ibrahimovic's emphatic response to England taunt on historic night for superstar

On this day some nine years ago, England travelled to Stockholm to face Sweden to celebrate the grand opening of the 50,000-seater Friends Arena.

And it was to be yet another memorable night for one player in particular, who stole the show as he has done so often throughout his long and illustrious career.

The night belonged to Zlatan Ibrahmovic, the scorer of all four of his country's goals. The last of which was one of the best wondergoals seen in football.

Few will remember that Sweden ran out 4-2 victors, for the game will forever be known for that moment of magic when Ibrahimovic scored a spectacular overhead kick.

Sweden were leading 3-2 in injury time when Joe Hart's attempted clearance with a header was not good enough.

But few could have predicted the incredible improvisation by Ibrahimovic, who rotated his body before watching the ball come down and unleashing a staggering bicycle kick from distance, which somehow found the back of the net.

The retreating Hart and the England backline were left wondering how it had happened. But it did. And in doing so, Ibrahimovic became the first-ever player to score four times in one game against England.

Before the goal, England fans could be heard chanting "you're just a s***t Andy Carroll," until the 6ft 5in striker came up with the perfect way to silence the crowd by producing a moment of individual brilliance.

"I don't know if you will see another like it in your life," said then Sweden coach Erik Hamren.

"Sometimes, when he's doing these things, in training or in matches, you don't think it's possible. Because it's not possible to do that - the fourth goal, for example.

"It can feel like you are watching a video game."

And his three others on the night weren't half bad either. His first came when he poked home the game's opener from a Martin Olsson cross, which was initially blocked by debutant Steven Caulker.

The former Tottenham and QPR defender was one of six debutants for Roy Hodgson's side, with Raheem Sterling, Leon Osman, Ryan Shawcross, Carl Jenkinson and Wilfried Zaha being the others.

For his second, Ibrahmovic chested down Anders Svensson's through ball over the top, before rifling the ball past Hart.

His hat-trick goal would have comfortably been the best on most night's, had it not been for that moment of magic.

Ibrahimovic's stunning 30-yard free-kick was hard and low and there was nothing Hart could do about it.

The Swede became the first player to net a hat-trick against England since Marco van Basten did so in 1988.

Speaking after his sensational display, Ibrahimovic said: "That's the way it is with the English. If you score against them you're a good player, if you don't score against them you're not a good player.

"I remember Lionel Messi before the 2009 Champions League final for Barcelona. Then he scored against Manchester United and suddenly he was the best player in the world. Maybe now they'll say something like that about me.

"Hart was a long way out and I was just trying to get it into the goal. I was on the ground when it was on the way in.

"I saw a defender sliding in to try to get rid of it and I wanted to scream 'No' but the ball went in."