Genoa striker Gianluca Scamacca admits he looks up to AC Milan star Zlatan Ibrahimovic.

Scamacca is on-loan at Genoa from Sassuolo.

“He is an icon for me," the Italian told La Gazzetta dello Sport.

“Seeing him do some things at his age, often with even more determination than he had before, the way he carries the team on his shoulder, it all stimulates and fascinates me.

“I think: if he can do it, why can't I? When I was playing in Holland and I'd do a backheel, they'd ask me if I was trying to be like Ibrahimovic, but you learn those things playing on the street.

“After so much of that, I went to look at some videos of Ibra and did see some similarities in our playing style."

The two strikers are even exactly the same height, 1.95 metres. What does Ibrahimovic have that Scamacca would like to take?

“His bank balance. Kidding aside, it's his bravado."