Mario Balotelli

Italian world football star Mario Balotelli is equally known for his high performance on the pitch and fights with teammates outside. Even the Manchester City coach Roberto Mancini got away from the temperamental scorer when he tried to send the player to the dressing room against the footballer's will during training.

Despite a string of scandals surrounding Balotelli's career, in 2016 the management of the club "Nice" acquired the striker and never regretted. During the season and a half "Super Mario" played fifty meetings and scored 33 goals in them.

Balotelli's biography began with drama: Mario was born on August 12, 1990 in Palermo and spent his first year of his life in a hospital room. His parents, a couple from Barvoy, Ghana, moved to Bagnolo Mella after Mario was born, but it soon became clear that the infant needed the help of doctors. Due to the pathology of the digestive system, the newborn underwent several gastric surgeries.

Unable to pay for the boy's medication and care, Barwua's wife contacted the guardianship service. As a result, two-year-old Mario adopted the family of Francesco and Silvio Balotelli, which grew up with two teenage sons and a young daughter.

Balotelli lived in the small commune of Conchezio, and this place became a native to Mario. Later, the adoptive parents found out the address of Barwua's family and brought the grown-up Mario to meet them, but no one opened the door.

As the footballer later told in an interview, it was only when he became a sports star that his biological father and mother started

The athlete stated that in their interview there was a lot of false information affecting Balotelli's reputation.

Balotelli also revealed that he was constantly confronted with racism as a child. If there was a theft at the school, the culprit was unjustifiably considered Mario. And peers from neighboring houses refused to play with him because of a different skin color. At the age of 18, the young man received a passport, and with it, finally, Italian citizenship, but the attitude of others did not change.

The salvation was football. The boy spent all his free time playing the game. At the age of seven he joined the San Bartolomeo team, and over the following decade he played for five youth clubs. In the last two - Lumetzan and Inter - he played in parallel for the adult line-up.

He made his professional football debut at the age of 15. In April 2006, he made his first appearances for Lumetsan, who faced Padova in the top division of the Serie A, balotelli played only once again, and decided to move to another club in the summer.

He went to Barcelona for a viewing, but he wasn't taken. Later, when the forward was already playing for Manchester City and was asked about rumours of a move to the Catalans, Mario abruptly stated that he was not going to "play with the girls".

The striker spends his second season in his career at Inter's youth team, and since 2007 he has been playing for the nerazzurri. They check the newcomer in the summer friendly against Sheffield United. In the goal of the English are two goals scored by Balotelli, and the author of the double wins the right to play for Inter at the highest level of the national championship of Italy.

However, Inter coach Roberto Mancini only released the forward on the pitch in December: in the match of the national tournament "Neradzurri" defeated Cagliari. But Mario scored the first goal for the team (and the second in the same match) in the meeting with Regina a few days later.

The next double in the Coppa Italia, drawn against Juventus, led Inter to the semi-finals of the tournament. The main trophy, however, could not be won. But in the same period, Inter won the national championship not without Mario's help, and later won the Italian Super Cup.

Next season brings Mario twice as many games in the league and he scores 8 goals against 3 goals last period. Inter confirm the title. Other tournaments do not submit to the team, and Mancini leaves, handing over the post to Jose Mourinho.

The scorer's performance remains at the same level, and the new coach pulls up the rest of the team. As a result, Inter wins the Champions League, the Coppa Italia and the national championship.

In 2010 Mario made his debut for the italian national team - before that the player played in youth competitions. Balotelli's triumphant participation in Euro 2012 was a triumph. Once the first black player in the national team, he led it to the final of the European tournament, the victory in which went to Spain. The forward was recognized as the top scorer of the championship.

Mancini, who joined Manchester City, persuaded the club's management to transfer to the club, and balotelli moved to the UK in the summer of 2010. The transfer value of the footballer is 24 million euros. The debut goal for City was scored in the first leg - the match against Timisoara from Romania was held within the framework of the Europa League. But in the same meeting Mario suffered a knee injury, which turned him out of the competition for two months.

The debut in the English Premier League took place in the match against Arsenal. Successful performances were parallel to Balotelli's gradually escalating conflicts with his team-mates. In December, his fight with Jerome Boateng took place at training. Roughly Mario behaved on the field, earning red cards one by one.

Even the measures taken by the club's management did not work: Balotelli's fines for violation of discipline were kept from his salary. The last straw was a fight with Mancini. The scuffle between the player and the coach of the team took place in early 2013. The club did not allow the player to finish the season and registered his transfer to AC Milan.

Balotelli successfully played a season and a half at the Italian club. He has played in 43 games and scored 26 goals. In 2013, he saved the team from relegation from the Champions League by scoring a penalty in the final of the Italian league " Siena. But a year later AC Milan still did not get into the European Cup, and the player decided to change the club.

The forward was acquired by Liverpool, but the transfer was unsuccessful for the club. Having played 16 matches, Mario scored only once. Balotelli was loaned out to AC Milan the following season, but one followed by injuries. The performance is the same - one goal, but already in 20 games.

Balotelli's difficult period is over by the start of the 2016/2017 season. As a free agent, he applied to Nice and the club agreed to sign a contract with Liverpool. In the first match Mario scored a double, and later scored 15 goals during the season. The second season was even more successful for the forward: he scored 26 goals in 38 games.

The footballer is not married. From the summer of 2011 to the spring of 2012 he met with Raffaella Fico, a TV star and model. She gave birth to a daughter in December, but Balotelli only admitted her baby after a genetic examination.

Balotelli then dated Fanny Neguesha, a Belgian and Italian model, singer and dancer. They got engaged in March 2013, but in September 2014 they broke off their engagement. The main reason for Fanny's breakup was the jealousy of the eccentric footballer.

In September 2018, Mario became a father for the second time: he had a son Leon. The footballer does not disclose the name of the child's mother.

Italian media write that Mario is ready to support not only his children: the athlete is engaged in targeted charity, helping families who turn to him for funds for the treatment or education of sons and daughters.

Balotelli leads Twitter and Instagram, posting photos on social media from both games and workouts and meetings with friends. The attacker is 189 cm tall and weighs 88 kg.

The name of the formidable forward was repeatedly remembered during the last season. Mario did not finish his career in the national team, but the call-up to the qualifying games for the 2018 World Cup never came. The absence of a scorer had an impact on the result: for the first time in 60 years, Italy did not get on the uniform.

In the summer of 2018, Parma, Marseille, Juventus and CSKA moscow announced their interest in the player. The most likely move to Napoli. According to Tuttosport, Balotelli's agent is in talks with the club's management.

2008 - Italian Champion 2007/08 (inter)

2008 - Italian Super Cup

2009 - Italian Champion 2008/09 (inter)

2010 - Italian Champions 2009/10 (inter)

2010 - Coppa Italia

2010 - UEFA Champions League

2011 - FA Cup winner (with Manchester City)

2012 - 2011/12 Fais (Manchester City)

2012 - FA Community Shield (manchester City)

2012 - 2012 European Championship silver medalist (in the national team)

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