{"id":465966,"date":"2023-10-16T06:23:15","date_gmt":"2023-10-16T10:23:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=465966"},"modified":"2023-10-16T06:23:15","modified_gmt":"2023-10-16T10:23:15","slug":"balotelli-blasts-ibrahimovic-criticism-towards-him","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/balotelli-blasts-ibrahimovic-criticism-towards-him\/","title":{"rendered":"Balotelli blasts Ibrahimovic&#8217; criticism towards him"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mario Balotelli has hit back at Zlatan Ibrahimovic&#8217; most recent comments about the Italian&#8217;s career.<\/p>\n<p>The two have had a difficult relationship, despite sharing the same dressing room at Inter Milan in 2007-2009.<\/p>\n<p>So it is no surprise that Balotelli felt enraged, when the Swede started criticising his career.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Mario Balotelli posted a photo of him holding the Champions League trophy after Zlatan had criticized him for not maximizing his talent.<\/p>\n<p>Zlatan never won the Champions League in his career \ud83d\ude2e <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/tVKtypeAGm\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/tVKtypeAGm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; ESPN FC (@ESPNFC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ESPNFC\/status\/1713605295656595730?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">October 15, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The 33-year-old posted a picture of himself with the Champions League trophy from 2010, tagging Zlatan&#8217;s name under it. It is more than an obvious dig since it is well known that Ibrahimovic has not won the trophy in his long career.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In Manchester you were scared and I wanted to win (on the pitch). The year after We won the Champions League anyway, but Zlatan, I still love you.&#8221; Balotelli said under the picture referring to Inter&#8217;s last 16 loss to Manchester United in 2009.<\/p>\n<p>Balotelli stayed one more year in Inter before moving to Manchester City, where he won the Premier League and the FA Cup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mario Balotelli has hit back at Zlatan Ibrahimovic&#8217; most recent comments about the Italian&#8217;s career. The two have had a difficult relationship, despite [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":465967,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[21779,19713],"news_category":[14235],"gn_keywords":[21780,19714],"acf":{"announce":"The Swede said that the Italian failed to 'exploit his talent'","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/465966"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=465966"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/465966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":465968,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/465966\/revisions\/465968"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/465967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=465966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=465966"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=465966"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=465966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}