My dream was to play for Barcelona – Zlatan Ibile

Popular Nigerian  singer Omoniyi Temidayo Raphael  fondly called  Zlatan Ibile has revealed that his childhood dream was to be a football player.

The ‘Bust Down’ hitmaker stated that he thought about playing for La Liga giants, Barcelona, after failing at school.

Zlatan Ibile , while chatting with Echo room said that he never had the intention of being a musician, emphasising that music came to him by chance.

According to him, he fell in love with music after one of his friends played a song he recorded for him.

In his words:

“I was not a bright student in secondary school. I struggled with Mathematics and Accounting. I was in a Commercial class. I failed my WAEC and I was supposed to sit at home for a year. All my dream was to play for Barcelona.

“I tried my possible best but the corruption in Nigerian football discouraged me. I was playing for a local club then. When I failed WAEC, I was going to sit down at home for a year, and then one of my friends came and played his record for me. I told him to take me to the studio the next time he was going. That was how I became a musician. I never had the intention of being a musical.”