{"id":319073,"date":"2025-11-28T18:28:22","date_gmt":"2025-11-28T18:28:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/319073\/"},"modified":"2025-11-28T18:28:22","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T18:28:22","slug":"a-true-captain-dalla-bona-reveals-inzaghi-and-shevchenko-had-to-be-calmed-by-maldini","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/319073\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;A true captain&#8217; &#8211; Dalla Bona reveals Inzaghi and Shevchenko had to be calmed by Maldini"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ahead of the 2003 Champions League final, the AC Milan camp had a moment of intervention from Paolo Maldini.<\/p>\n<p>There are very few players who are closer to clubs than Maldini. He is Milan, and Milan is him. When you dedicate 30 years to one club, it is a natural situation. With almost 650 appearances for the Rossoneri, too, this fact is cemented.<\/p>\n<p>The Italian saw everything in the colours, winning seven Scudetti, five Champions League titles, a Club World Cup and much more. For many Milanisti, if they were to even have a small portion of his career, it would be <a href=\"https:\/\/sempremilan.com\/paolo-maldini-father-debut-biggest-losers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a dream come true<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Maldini speaks, you listen<\/p>\n<p>When he returned as a sporting director, the club won another Scudetto, with a number of key signings making the difference, and it was a role that made sense for him as a natural leader.<\/p>\n<p>Today, speaking to Gazzetta dello Sport, Samuele Dalla Bona has revealed an instance where he had to get involved in an argument between Andriy Shevchenko and Pippo Inzaghi, as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.calciomercato.com\/liste\/dalla-bona-inzaghi-e-shevchenko-al-milan-litigarono-prima-della-finale-di-champions-contro-la-juventus\/blt0d990a20f42da617#cs6b0ca2e040ca0fa3\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Calciomercato.com<\/a> relays.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn 2003, I watched the final against Juventus from the stands in Manchester. I remember an argument between Inzaghi and Shevchenko during the final training session; they exchanged insults.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMaldini approached him and told him to stop. A true captain, he always intimidated me, to be honest.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ahead of the 2003 Champions League final, the AC Milan camp had a moment of intervention from Paolo&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":319074,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-319073","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-soccer","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319073","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=319073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319073\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/319074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}