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Zlatan Ibrahimovic on becoming Sweden's all-time leading scorer: 'It's not over yet'

Jason Cairnduff / Reuters

Be afraid, Europe. Be very afraid.

After notching both goals in Sweden's 2-0 friendly win over Estonia on Thursday to dethrone Sven Rydell as Sweden's all-time leading scorer, Zlatan Ibrahimovic, 32, has vowed that he'll "keep going."

"That I scored with a back-heel was probably a little lucky, but it was the only way I could score there," said Ibrahimovic of his record-breaking 50th goal. "I want so much, I want even more. Even if I've said there's a couple years left, I'm going to do the maximum in those years. Now I've gone past the goal record, we'll keep going. It's not over yet."

Ibrahimovic's second goal, which came in the 24th minute, was classic Zlatan as he flicked the ball past 'keeper Sergei Pareiko with a stunning back-heel and subsequently unveiled a shirt that read, "50 Goals, You Made It All Possible."

With Sweden in a Euro 2016 qualifying group that also consists of Russia, Austria, Montenegro, Moldova, and Liechtenstein, one has to imagine that Ibrahimovic, who is one cap away from 100 international appearances, will have little trouble adding to his goal total.

"It's my will, my desire to be better," Ibrahimovic continued. "I train hard to be better, I want to be better than last season, I want to go forward all the time. I broke the record yesterday, but now I'm going to continue scoring goals to make it even harder for the next one who wants to break it."

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