Ibrahimovich makes Bernabeu promise

MADRID, Aug. 2 -- FC Barcelona striker Zlatan Ibrahimovich explained on Sunday that he wants to win next season's Champions League final in the Santiago Bernabeu stadium.

Ibrahimovich is Barcelona' s big signing of the summer. The Swedish international joined the club from Inter Milan in a deal that is calculated to be worth around 65 million euros.

He joins a side that last season won the Kings Cup and Primera Liga titles in Spain and which lifted the Champions League for the third time in its history.

No side has ever successfully defended the Champions League since Europe' s main club competition was given that name in 1992.However, with next season' s final scheduled to be held at the home ground of Barcelona' s bitter rivals Real Madrid, Ibrahimovich says he has one big ambition.

"I know the rivalry between the two sides and that is why I say that I am going to be in the team photo of the winning side. It will be very nice to win in the Bernabeu," he told Barcelona based sports paper El Mundo Deportivo.

"My agent and I believed I was going to sign for Barcelona more than Barca did," he said, when asked about the long drawn out negotiations over his transfer, which saw Barcelona' s Samuel Eto'o join Inter Milan in part exchange.

"Barcelona began to think it was almost impossible, but we knewit could happen if we kept on believing and helping. Now I am here and I am looking forward to playing and enjoying myself with the rest of the team. I want to win titles and to appear in that team photo in the Bernabeu," he added.

Ibrahimovich added that despite Barcelona' s performances last season, the club' s success would make it harder to repeat the same achievements.

"I have joined a winning team. That means you have to try and improve every day because you find that in every game against us, our rivals are going to give 200 percent."

"They will want to give the performance of their lives against us and that means you have to prepare specially and that you have no margin to relax. That is very exciting," he said.