{"id":165738,"date":"2025-09-18T16:06:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T16:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/165738\/"},"modified":"2025-09-18T16:06:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T16:06:10","slug":"marotta-throws-shade-a-milan-with-champions-league-dig-best-represents-italy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/165738\/","title":{"rendered":"Marotta throws shade a Milan with Champions League dig: &#8220;Best represents Italy&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AC Milan are, to many, the most successful Italian club in Europe. However, that view may not be held elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p>In recent years, there can be no denying that Milan have struggled, both in Serie A and in Europe; it is a sad reality. Of course, there was the Scudetto and Champions League run a few years back. However, they are not the team of old.<\/p>\n<p>The Rossoneri of the past were dominant in Italy and Europe, as the trophy cabinet shows and as the fans hope will return.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"750\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/ac-milan-coach-carlo-ancellotti-l-pre.jpg\" class=\"lazyload wp-image-216713\" alt=\"President Adriano Galliani and captain Paolo Maldini\"  data- style=\"aspect-ratio:1200\/750;max-width:1200px\"\/>Marotta\u2019s claim<\/p>\n<p>Before last night\u2019s game, Beppe Marotta spoke to Sky Sport about the Champions League and made quite a bold claim in the process, as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.milanpress.it\/marotta-sky-sport-italia-champions-league\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MilanPress<\/a> relays.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInter is the club\u00a0that best represents Italy in\u00a0the Champions League. We\u2019ve been playing in it for seven years, and it allows us to say that there\u2019s a hint of pride. Today we arrive at this stadium and with this team, knowing we\u2019re competitive.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Inter may have been in the competition for the past seven years, and Milan may not be present now. However, it is crucial to note that the Rossoneri still hold <a href=\"https:\/\/sempremilan.com\/the-perfect-game-and-revenge-on-liverpool-ranking-milans-seven-champions-league-final-wins\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">seven Champions League titles.<\/a> Something which the Nerazzurri have not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AC Milan are, to many, the most successful Italian club in Europe. However, that view may not be&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":165739,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":["post-165738","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\/165738","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=165738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165738\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/165739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}