{"id":663819,"date":"2026-11-01T17:36:10","date_gmt":"2026-11-01T17:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/663819\/"},"modified":"2026-11-01T17:36:10","modified_gmt":"2026-11-01T17:36:10","slug":"sankhoun-diawaras-rapid-rise-to-ac-milans-first-team-and-derby-starting-xi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/663819\/","title":{"rendered":"Sankhoun Diawara&#8217;s rapid rise to AC Milan&#8217;s first team and derby starting XI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another decidedly positive performance from young talent Sankhoun Diawara, who was handed a starting place in his first derby against Inter. He certainly did not look out of place, despite Djed Spence making several runs down his side in the first half.<\/p>\n<p>Diawara quickly wins over the fans:<\/p>\n<p>The young French defender held his own and remained on the pitch for almost the entire match, being substituted only in the closing minutes and receiving applause from the <a href=\"https:\/\/milanreports.com\/2026\/10\/30\/kaka-san-siro-tribute-derby\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">San Siro<\/a> stands.<\/p>\n<p>This morning, the former <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lequipe.fr\/Football\/match-direct\/ligue-1\/2026-2027\/troyes-le-mans-live\/690339\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Troyes<\/a> player took to his social media channels to share his emotions following the derby victory against Inter. Here is the message shared by the young French defender: &#8220;A special evening, happy to have experienced it wearing this shirt. FORZA MILAN.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Initially, Diawara&#8217;s signing seemed to be intended for Milan Futuro, but his level was high and certainly not that of Serie D. It was <a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/milanreports.com\/2026\/10\/31\/amorim-continues-to-support-ac-milan-youngster-sankhoun-diawara\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Amorim<\/a> who wanted him to join the senior team, writes Calciomercato.com. The French defender, born in 2006, arrived from Troyes for \u20ac3 million and signed a five-year contract until 2031.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-166370\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/Udinese-Calcio-v-AC-Milan-Serie-A-2026-27-31-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Sankhoun Diawara AC Milan\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1914\"  \/>Sankhoun Diawara (AC Milan via Getty Images)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Another decidedly positive performance from young talent Sankhoun Diawara, who was handed a starting place in his first&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":663820,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,46,105],"class_list":["post-663819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663819","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=663819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663819\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/663820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=663819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=663819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=663819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}