A lonely young man, exasperated by the English press, who wants to become more involved in Italian social issues was the picture Mario Balotelli drew of himself in an extensive interview published yesterday.The Manchester City striker confessed to having no close friends in his adopted city and said that if he left the Premier League it would be to return to Italy.
"I am 21 years old and I am a long way from home," he told L'Uomo Vogue. "In spite of all the profound differences between here and home I am pretty adaptable but I don't have any real friends here and if I have to move – whenever that is – then I'll choose Italy."
Though he claimed that the British press is obsessed by him, they have merely followed the path taken by journalists in Italy. In June, La Stampa reported his tour of a crime-ridden mafia estate "looking around wide-eyed as if it were Disneyworld". They did the same for his unannounced visit to a women's prison in Brescia.
However, Balotelli said he was particularly embarrassed by the Italian media's habit of quoting British tabloid reports as if they were fact. "I can never win with English journalists," he said. "If I buy a Fiat Uno, I read articles saying I am the type of guy who should be buying a Ferrari. If I choose the Ferrari, they write that I should keep my feet on the ground and buy a Fiat.
"If I laugh, I am not a serious person. If I don't laugh, I am a rich sulk who can't be motivated to do the most beautiful job in the world. Here, in England, the tabloid press writes about everything you do and they always exaggerate.
"But the one thing I can't stand is that in Italy the stupidities of the tabloids are picked up and amplified without anybody bothering to check."
Given that Jose Mourinho, the manager with whom he spectacularly fell out at Internazionale, has expressed a desire to return to England when he has finished with Real Madrid, it was probably politic for Balotelli to offer him an olive branch. "As a coach, Mourinho is among the best," said Balotelli who was rated "unmanageable" by the man who took Inter to the treble in 2010. "However, if I had to give my opinion, I would say it would be Roberto Mancini first and then Mourinho.
"A manager has to extract 100 per cent of a footballer's ability and Mancini is very skilled at doing that. But the treble was a conquest extracted from a great squad of players to whom I still feel a fond connection."
L'Uomo Vogue was one of Balotelli's great supporters when he was the victim of racist abuse at Inter, picturing him in an Italian flag on their front cover. His interest in politics, particularly racial politics, he said, was still strong. The murder of two Senegalese migrant workers by a far-right gunman in Florence last month moved him deeply. "If I can intervene in some social matters, then I will, so long as it's not turned into party politics because that's tough territory for me," he said. "I was very upset by that chilling racist murder in Florence.
"I don't play in Italy and I give interviews very rarely so I don't have the chance to put my point of view straight away. Perhaps if I had been back home I would have taken a public stand over what happened. But in some way or other, I still want to lend a hand."
Feel sorry for him tbh,
Everything with him gets blown out if proportion. Ive always been one of the people who say he reminds me of Cantona, only difference is Cantona was actually crazy but didn't live in a world where everyone and his mate is a reporter and everything is public knowledge within minutes.
However almost like what Mike Tyson did, he has been portrayed in a certain way, and has decided to walk in those shoes and give them what they want a lot of the time.
i do for a tad sorry for him but he half doesn't bring it on himself tbh
he'd be better off just keeping his head down and letting his football do the talking etc
"keeping his head down"
Fair enough,
But there are a lot of players who do worse than him,
I'm still waiting for Ballotelli to do anything bad.
Manchester City star Mario Balotelli stunned college students when he parked his luxury Bentley outside their classrooms and strolled in to ask if he could use the toilet. The eccentric Blues star turned up unannounced at the 1,800-pupil Xaverian College in Manchester around 1.30pm this afternoon. Parking his white Bentley in the car park he strolled into the Rusholme college’s canteen area to ask pupils where the toilets were.
Nah, this guy.
haha my nigga
Super Mario >>>
http://www.unionvers...otelli-a-legend lool at "balotelli will see you now" guy is too much!
http://www.unionvers...otelli-a-legend lool at "balotelli will see you now" guy is too much!
LOL guy is amazing
sick
some of those are hilarious
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the pic has me in stitches every time
Had his friend approach girls in a nightclub and say “Balotelli will see you now”
:rofl: :rofl:
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Good pr from the papers
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2079356/Mario-Balotelli-Tinchy-Stryder-rap-song.html
http://www.mirrorfootball.co.uk/news/Mario-Balotelli-inspires-Tinchy-Stryder-track-with-Why-Always-Me-chorus-listen-to-audio-here-article846835.html
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BALOTELLI HAS HOUSED 30 PEOPLE INTO THE HILTON HOTEL FOR NEW YEARS EVE/NEW YEARS DAY
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BALOTELLI HAS HOUSED 30 PEOPLE INTO THE HILTON HOTEL FOR NEW YEARS EVE/NEW YEARS DAY
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BALOTELLI HAS HOUSED 30 PEOPLE INTO THE HILTON HOTEL FOR NEW YEARS EVE/NEW YEARS DAY
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When filling up his car with petrol, he told everyone to do the same and he paid for it
Man is a legend
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