{"id":156818,"date":"2025-09-14T19:48:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-14T19:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/156818\/"},"modified":"2025-09-14T19:48:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T19:48:08","slug":"rakitic-hints-at-milan-regret-with-mention-of-serie-a-and-ibrahimovic-he-was-special","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/156818\/","title":{"rendered":"Rakitic hints at Milan regret with mention of Serie A and Ibrahimovic: &#8220;He was special&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ivan Rakitic has admitted that he would have liked to have experienced playing in Serie A, more specifically with Zlatan Ibrahimovic.<\/p>\n<p>Milan have been linked with a move for Rakitic at various points in his career, <a href=\"https:\/\/sempremilan.com\/marca-competition-for-milan-and-inter-as-new-club-enters-race-for-barcelona-man\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">most concretely in the 2020 summer window<\/a> when it was obvious that the team needed a creative midfielder.<\/p>\n<p>He retired at the beginning of July at the age of 37 after a playing career that saw him represent Schalke, Sevilla, Barcelona and later Hajduk Split. He also played over 100 times for his country, alongside Luka Modric for most of it, who <a href=\"https:\/\/sempremilan.com\/rakitic-milan-how-lucky-modric\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">he heavily praised recently<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Rakitic spoke in an interview with CBS Sports, and the former Croatian midfielder was asked about the player he most enjoyed swapping shirts with, and his comments were transcribed by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.milanpress.it\/rakitic-mancato-serie-a-ibrahimovic-speciale\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MilanPress<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA special shirt swap, very important for me, was the one with Zlatan Ibrahimovic. I\u2019m grateful for my career, but I missed two things: playing in Serie A and playing with Zlatan Ibrahimovic.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think he was special for us players. I think his attitude, as he says, like a lion, like a number 1, could improve you in so many ways, so many qualities by being around him every day. That\u2019s why I adore Zlatan.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ivan Rakitic has admitted that he would have liked to have experienced playing in Serie A, more specifically&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":156819,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":["post-156818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156818\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}