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Zlatan Ibrahimovic of Manchester United is the latest high-profile soccer player to head to MLS.
Soccer star Zlatan Ibrahimovic will be leaving Manchester United to play in Major League Soccer, the top domestic league in the United States and Canada.
Ibrahimovic is only the latest example of a long tradition of European stars heading to MLS to extend the end of their careers, a tradition including luminaries of the sport such as David Beckham and Andrea Pirlo.
Zlatan is one of the most talented and decorated (and quotable) strikers in the game, having won too many team trophies and individual honors to list. But he is also at the tail end of his career at 36-years-old, and other high profile stars before him have come to MLS only to underperform relative to their billing.
So we have decided to take a look at the biggest names to come to MLS and how their moves ended up panning out.