{"id":570072,"date":"2026-08-01T09:30:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T09:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/570072\/"},"modified":"2026-08-01T09:30:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T09:30:09","slug":"he-was-the-toughest-player-i-faced-romario-pays-tribute-to-ac-milan-and-italy-legend-franco-baresi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/570072\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;He was the toughest player I faced&#8217; &#8211; Romario pays tribute to AC Milan and Italy legend Franco Baresi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Baresi spent his entire 20-year senior career with Milan, winning three Champions League titles and six Serie A crowns before hanging up his boots.<\/p>\n<p>Beyond their competitive fixtures, Romario&#8217;s admiration for the iconic defender led to him featuring in Baresi&#8217;s testimonial match at San Siro: &#8220;In 1997, I had the honour of participating in his farewell game. The guy was on another level! He was a symbol of Milan and the Italy team. One of the greatest defenders in history.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The 1994 World Cup winner concluded his heartfelt message by offering his condolences to Baresi&#8217;s family and loved ones: &#8220;I send my respect for everything he did for football, and my affection to his family and friends. May God receive him in peace. Thank you, Baresi.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Baresi spent his entire 20-year senior career with Milan, winning three Champions League titles and six Serie A&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":570073,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1083,257835,85,46,2971,257834,105],"class_list":["post-570072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-brazil","tag-f-baresi","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-italy","tag-romario","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=570072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570072\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/570073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=570072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=570072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=570072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}