{"id":3933,"date":"2021-06-11T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-11T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/about.macron.com\/virtus-segafredo-bologna-is-2020-21-italian-champions\/"},"modified":"2025-04-28T14:35:46","modified_gmt":"2025-04-28T14:35:46","slug":"virtus-segafredo-bologna-is-2020-21-italian-champions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/about.macron.com\/en\/news\/uncategorized\/virtus-segafredo-bologna-is-2020-21-italian-champions\/","title":{"rendered":"VIRTUS SEGAFREDO BOLOGNA IS 2020\/21 ITALIAN CHAMPIONS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With another marvellous victory in an almost perfect Finale series, Virtus Segafredo Bologna is the Italian Champion for the 16th time and brings the \u201cScudetto\u201d back to the black-and-white side of Bologna twenty years after the last time.<\/p>\n<p>A collective triumph that starts from afar. A team and a club that has always been used to winning, but that also had to learn how to lose. That had to digest the taste of defeat, the disappointment of relegation, and the fear of not returning to top levels. <\/p>\n<p>Then, the effort to get up and fight to be promoted again in First Division, to come back to European stages and, today, to be crowned Italian Champions.<\/p>\n<p>A path that follows the principles of Macron, which has proudly accompanied the club for ten years now. Passion and work, talent and altruism, perseverance and creativity. Individual sacrifice and group strength. 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