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"The wildest child: 'SUPER' Mario Balotelli"


  

          

Every week its something with this dude. If he isn't talking about racism in his new book:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2010/dec/15/mario-balotelli-italian-racism-book

Or if he isn't talking shit about opponents after winning an award:

http://sports.yahoo.com/soccer/blog/dirty-tackle/post/Balotelli-wears-ridiculous-hat-announces-only-M;_ylt=AjGjUCFLLm4wi6EsTx9auuwmw7YF?urn=sow-298831


Dude scores and then gets a red card. Or then he scores and gets injured and leaves the pitch.

He's only 21 and he's one of the most gifted strikers in the World, but you gotta wonder how long the young'un can get away with his behaviour on and off the pitch.


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Oh and of course this post is incomplete without a Becky:
Dec 21st 2010
1
Fuck Italy though, I'm a root for him, but poor choice
Dec 21st 2010
2
He's Ghanaian...can you imagine him on Ghana
Dec 21st 2010
3
      Damn... that pisses me off!
Dec 21st 2010
4
           that was Ghana's biggest weakness, too
Dec 21st 2010
6
Oh he's definitely crazy
Dec 21st 2010
5
Also, he a fashion icon
Dec 21st 2010
7
That hat is the shiznit
Dec 21st 2010
8
      Yeah, I could see myself in a glovehat
Dec 21st 2010
9
this kid drives me crazy.
Dec 21st 2010
10
We've yet to see how good he can be on the field.
Dec 21st 2010
11
      He scores damn near everytime he is on the pitch
Dec 21st 2010
12
How is writing about Italian racism in the convo with foolish red cards?
Dec 21st 2010
13
because Super Mario always finds a way to make a headline
Dec 21st 2010
14
      So he should have stayed quiet about it?
Dec 21st 2010
15
           not at all, but he doesn't help his cause with his behavior
Dec 28th 2010
19
talented, unaccomplished, egomaniacal cunt.
Dec 21st 2010
16
RE: talented, unaccomplished, egomaniacal cunt.
Dec 21st 2010
17
      last I checked
Dec 28th 2010
21
           I'm saying, I'll settle for being the next Anelka.
Dec 28th 2010
22
Dude keeps scoring:
Dec 28th 2010
18
2 pens and a tap-in. weak
Dec 28th 2010
20
      If the league title comes down to goal differential, its huge
Dec 28th 2010
23
           Also he won the pen for the first goal.
Dec 28th 2010
24
terrific player but stuggles with bibs
Mar 18th 2011
25
Up there with "Crouchie's 'avin his nachos!!!" for striker stupidity
Mar 18th 2011
26
You know you have discipline issues when De Jong tells you to chill.
Mar 18th 2011
27
seriously. if that's not a sign i don't know what is.
Mar 18th 2011
28
That's the first thing I thought of when I read the quote
Mar 19th 2011
29
Man City probe Balotelli dart incident (swipe):
Mar 28th 2011
30
just don't give a fuck
Mar 29th 2011
31
Darts yo???? WTF?
Mar 29th 2011
32
wait, what?
Mar 29th 2011
33
      He brought Darts to practice and was throwing them at kids
Mar 29th 2011
34
           yes.
Mar 29th 2011
35
           developmentally challenged, ineffective mentoring, and millions of dolla...
Mar 29th 2011
36
                so there was actually some mentoring???
Mar 29th 2011
37
                     probably something in preparation for the italian race war
Mar 29th 2011
38
I feel like another chapter is about to be written
Apr 16th 2011
39
He got carded? Drove his Lambo on the pitch?
Apr 16th 2011
40
got into it with Rio and Van der Sar after the final whistle
Apr 16th 2011
42
      Lol...
Apr 16th 2011
44
i saw rio mad as fuck but didn't see what mario did....
Apr 16th 2011
41
      yeah I'm not there we saw the same feed, it will come out in an hour or ...
Apr 16th 2011
43
      sounds like he taunted the United Fans...
Apr 16th 2011
45
LMAO at this:
Apr 20th 2011
46
Mario wins 25,000 pounds at casino, gives 1,000 to a 'tramp':
Apr 20th 2011
47
Ginger Dreadlocks needs an alias Stat
Apr 20th 2011
48
      i need my money stat.
Apr 28th 2011
50
'SUPER' Mario to police "fuck your traffic laws" (swipe) LMAO
Apr 25th 2011
49
how is this even possible?
May 15th 2011
56
Balotelli helps a kid out with his bullying problem (swipe)
May 09th 2011
51
Mario just shocked the censors:
May 14th 2011
52
He's right too. I'll give him credit though. He played great today.
May 14th 2011
53
well, props to him for his honesty.
May 14th 2011
54
      He played his best on the biggest stage...he is for real....
May 14th 2011
55
Throwing water balloons at people >>> celebrating the FA Cup (swipe)
May 25th 2011
57
RE: The wildest child: 'SUPER' Mario Balotelli
May 25th 2011
58
#47
May 25th 2011
59
He's back LMAO
Jul 24th 2011
60
lmfao wish he made that
Jul 24th 2011
61
linkage
Jul 24th 2011
62
Him being an idiot would be funnier if he wasn't an ungodly talent.
Jul 24th 2011
63
its an exhibition. let that boy cook.
Jul 24th 2011
64
I could see him doing that in an important match
Jul 24th 2011
66
LOOOOL. He's a wild boy!
Jul 24th 2011
65
Epic.
Jul 24th 2011
67
At this rate, he may fuck up enough that he ends up in MLS.
Jul 25th 2011
68
that is some shit he would do though
Jul 25th 2011
69
lol. Please Baby Jesus let this happen.
Jul 25th 2011
70
That shit would be ridic...and he'd lead the league in scoring
Jul 25th 2011
73
lol
Jul 25th 2011
71
What an absolute fool
Jul 26th 2011
74
i always thought this was about Marco Bellinelli
Jul 25th 2011
72
cosign
Dec 05th 2011
114
He reportedly had his iPad on the Italian bench...
Sep 04th 2011
75
Mario says it was only during warm-ups...lulz
Sep 06th 2011
76
he's just getting warmed up for some mid season shenanigans
Sep 06th 2011
77
      Arsene shoulda made a move for him too btw...
Sep 06th 2011
78
"Balotelli quizzed over Mafia links" (swipe). This guy is the best.
Sep 08th 2011
79
I get giddy when I see this pop up on page 1 here
Sep 08th 2011
80
for real
Sep 08th 2011
81
LOL
Sep 08th 2011
82
woooooooow
Sep 08th 2011
83
fuck a Scarface poster on the wall, this dude is living the dream
Sep 08th 2011
84
SUSPENDED.
Sep 14th 2011
85
Class goal from Super Mario today
Sep 24th 2011
86
Super Mario can't stop scoring
Oct 01st 2011
87
Super Mario rides his bicycle...
Oct 15th 2011
88
hmm...he's been playing too well lately
Oct 15th 2011
89
burning your own house down lighting fireworks in your bathroom?
Oct 22nd 2011
90
Link!
Oct 22nd 2011
91
he ran back in to save a quantity of cash. it keeps getting better.
Oct 22nd 2011
92
LMAO super mario is ON FIRE
Oct 22nd 2011
93
this nigga is taking it to another level.
Oct 22nd 2011
94
and went back in to get a suitcase and a bag full of money
Oct 22nd 2011
95
why always me?
Oct 23rd 2011
96
He really showed out today - man of the match
Oct 23rd 2011
97
http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ltj0nyb0gc1qe6de8o1_400.jpg
Oct 23rd 2011
98
30-foot Super Mario Balotelli to be burned on Bonfire Night:
Nov 04th 2011
99
WOW. he loves to be hated tho, i get the sense he feeds off of it.
Nov 04th 2011
100
The secret footballer checks in
Nov 04th 2011
101
shitted on sczczny in internationals
Nov 11th 2011
102
LOL sczadkfny LOL (videos down btw, damn copyright!)
Nov 11th 2011
103
      found it, sick lob: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded...
Nov 12th 2011
104
Two yellows in 6 minutes, sees red 82nd minute vs. Liverpool, LOLz
Nov 27th 2011
105
I laughed.
Nov 28th 2011
106
shoulder goal. omg. I don't know if he's an idiot or a genius
Dec 05th 2011
107
lol watching live, the angle looked like he punched in the ball
Dec 05th 2011
108
who would even think of doing that?
Dec 05th 2011
109
      you mean the shoulder tap? that was fairly natural play
Dec 05th 2011
111
           link?
Dec 05th 2011
113
                yes plz. somebody faking and feignting more than cristiano i need to see
Dec 05th 2011
115
                video's pulled down everywhere I know to look (stupid ass EPL)
Dec 06th 2011
116
                     I saw that shit on tv, it was fuckin ill.
Dec 06th 2011
117
this is how it is done, son
Dec 05th 2011
110
Relatively tame, def added his swag but it's a natural motion
Dec 05th 2011
112
Sword fighting with rolling pins after curfew in a curry spot:
Dec 12th 2011
118
School in Sudan naming a wing after Mario:
Dec 13th 2011
119
Facts about Balotelli from Reddit (swipe)
Dec 19th 2011
120
white people love the coon
Dec 19th 2011
121
It's been too long-- Makes surprise school visit to use bathroom
Jan 12th 2012
122
Cool...I was about to post this!
Jan 13th 2012
123
Balotelli: A Jazz Opera (courtesy crossdamon's post)
Jan 22nd 2012
124
Balotelli faces four-match ban for Parker head stamp
Jan 23rd 2012
125
How did he not get carded for this???
Jan 26th 2012
126
wondering what type of girl "Rafella Ti Amo" is? (link + swipe)
Feb 28th 2012
127
great BBC interview with (blech) Noel Gallager (link)
Mar 10th 2012
128
just about to post this
Mar 21st 2012
129
So he walked in on Inter's Stramaccioni press conference (video)
Mar 29th 2012
130
I saw that and was rolling...he came up in their youth academy
Mar 29th 2012
131
WOW
Mar 29th 2012
132
      His old team. His team is in England. This team is in Italy.
Mar 29th 2012
133
           like, what the fuck is he doing in Milan in the middle of a week?
Mar 30th 2012
136
                dude has cash & there for less than 24hrs. milan to manchester=not far
Apr 05th 2012
138
i just got this in the mail
Mar 29th 2012
134
HA!!!!!
Mar 30th 2012
135
Balotelli had affair with Rooney's prostitute says...Balotelli's agent
Apr 05th 2012
137
Another Car runs into his; He runs UP into Rooney's sidepiece
Apr 07th 2012
139
why always him?
Apr 08th 2012
140
YOLO.
Apr 08th 2012
141
he's becoming less endearing now that he's scything at players
Apr 08th 2012
142
Yep yep yep yolo
Apr 08th 2012
143
And he's done at Citeh (swipe)
Apr 09th 2012
144
mancini says mario is done at city
Apr 09th 2012
145
Next stop, MLS?
Apr 09th 2012
146
nobody in their right mind would sign him
Apr 09th 2012
147
Going out on a limb, I say Malaga
Apr 09th 2012
148
i think Milan would have him, especially since he'll be cheap.
Apr 09th 2012
149
      no chance in hell SAF would want him
Apr 09th 2012
150
           ravel's a thug off the field, he's stuck in the wrong crowd.
Apr 09th 2012
151
Mario = clutch. Key role in a lot of hardware for his age.
May 13th 2012
152
Did he just get inserted back into the lineup for this last match?!?!?
May 13th 2012
153
      substitute, i believe
May 13th 2012
154
      Played pretty well starting against United in the 6-1, MOTM
May 13th 2012
157
           this could go tit for tat
May 13th 2012
158
      he also got called up for Italy's Euro squad today.
May 13th 2012
155
           They shld build their team around him and Cassano.
May 13th 2012
156
*fistpump* Mario plans to "kill" any racist fans at Euros
May 30th 2012
159
I was watching Italy-Spain highlights and was like who is the black...
Jun 10th 2012
160
What a goal. An incredible player and a WINNER, I get a W for this one
Jun 18th 2012
161
defender didn't know what was happening until it was in the net...LOL
Jun 19th 2012
162
indeed. VIDEO
Jun 19th 2012
163
BALOTELLI IS GOD
Jun 28th 2012
164
He is a WINNER, he always plays his best in the biggest matches.
Jun 28th 2012
165
in other words THE ANTI-MARIO GOMEZ
Jun 28th 2012
166
and his best is better than everyone except Messi at this point
Jun 28th 2012
174
G O D
Jun 28th 2012
168
Just scored two goals to advance Italy in the Euro's...
Jun 28th 2012
167
um i'm finna call a predominant islamic asiatic hebrew huddle
Jun 28th 2012
169
lol, post #160, I just found out who he was a few weeks ago but...
Jun 28th 2012
170
this movement needs to be moved
Jun 28th 2012
171
This movement BEEN movin...sit yo azz down bus is moving
Jun 28th 2012
173
Just google him and revel in the insanity... no one is like him
Jun 28th 2012
175
your hyperbole on all fronts is not helping the cause
Jun 28th 2012
178
      o you blak?
Jun 28th 2012
179
      all i'm sayin' is
Jun 28th 2012
186
           If he's ever had anything that looks like a banana thrown at him....
Jun 28th 2012
193
                i'm in full support of the movement
Jun 28th 2012
196
      No way Man City wins without him this year...you know it
Jun 29th 2012
199
           he was a contributing part
Jun 29th 2012
200
Y'all didn't support him bc y'all didn't know who he was lol
Jun 28th 2012
176
we got a regular Sherlock Holmes up in this bitch
Jun 28th 2012
177
Dang, you're extra ornery today
Jun 28th 2012
183
eh yo this some solidarity shit god back up with that
Jun 28th 2012
180
      Lol. Don't get me wrong, I'm all for y'all getting in w the movement
Jun 28th 2012
182
have you read his full bio? dude is the face of post-racial Europe
Jun 28th 2012
181
"barrage of hate" from italy is a little strong
Jun 28th 2012
185
      how much race hate is too much race hate?
Jun 28th 2012
187
      that isn't anti-mario as a player, tho
Jun 28th 2012
189
      RE: that isn't anti-mario as a player, tho
Jun 28th 2012
190
      you're right, just anti-Mario as a human being -- my bad!
Jun 28th 2012
191
      LeBron's was worse
Jun 28th 2012
197
      RE: "barrage of hate" from italy is a little strong
Jun 28th 2012
188
      You ever had a banana thrown at you or been drawn as a monkey?
Jun 28th 2012
194
      Uh YOU just realized he's alive TODAY too.
Jun 28th 2012
195
      Umm what your mouth and check your manners, sissy
Jun 29th 2012
210
           lol
Jun 29th 2012
212
           The don corleone of not knowing what you're talking tough about? LOL
Jun 29th 2012
214
      without getting too personal here
Jun 28th 2012
198
           Eh yo you wanna get some gat shit?
Jun 29th 2012
209
      lol, best believe that a whole legion of spaghetti-eating mf's are...
Jun 29th 2012
205
           best believe a lot of italians were cursing MAD as shit when he
Jun 29th 2012
213
                lol, you know they were calling him every name in the book!
Jun 29th 2012
215
I'm on board with Super Mario. Might have become my favorite athlete...
Jun 29th 2012
201
BEAST
Jun 28th 2012
172
Come back to Inter, son
Jun 28th 2012
184
If he comes back to Milan, it will be wearing this:
Jun 29th 2012
203
Super Mario
Jun 28th 2012
192
You want to talk about mad-making/racism? Another Italian headline...
Jun 29th 2012
202
Balo itw after the game
Jun 29th 2012
204
what this post is really about:
Jun 29th 2012
206
Great quote..and the last line puts it on a whole other level
Jun 29th 2012
207
his white mom or his black mom?
Jun 29th 2012
217
      I don't think he speaks to his biological parents
Jun 29th 2012
218
           Damn, his biological sister is serious buisness! *link*
Jun 29th 2012
219
LOL
Jun 29th 2012
211
http://i.imgur.com/tUBzB.gif
Jun 29th 2012
208
RE: The wildest child: 'SUPER' Mario Balotelli
Jun 29th 2012
216
http://i.imgur.com/gjjG3.png
Jul 25th 2012
220
The Human Enigma: loves Drake, also UFC (vid)
Jul 25th 2012
221
Eye surgery.
Sep 05th 2012
222
Balotelli enters as sub 81'
Oct 03rd 2012
223
lol you cant troll a troll.
Oct 03rd 2012
224
http://timethemoment.files.wordpress.com/2012/10/20121112_600.jpg?w=255&...
Nov 06th 2012
225
huh? kinda random timing
Nov 06th 2012
226
Mario joins Twitter, Rough Riders, Telly Tubbies
Dec 10th 2012
227
Dec 10th 2012
228
balo is the spirit of YOLO in human form.
Dec 10th 2012
229
      RE: balo is the spirit of IDGAF in human form.
Dec 10th 2012
230
Mancini gets into it with Balotelli
Jan 03rd 2013
231
Bout to get that 'home' cooking again
Jan 29th 2013
232
Man U fan pees on the Bentley
Jan 29th 2013
233
so many LOLs
Jan 29th 2013
234
Milan.
Jan 29th 2013
235
i can finally REALLY pull for this cat.
Jan 29th 2013
236
BOOM back at it in Milan
Jan 30th 2013
237
So happy he's a Rossoneri
Jan 30th 2013
238
Scores twice in his debut for Milan:
Feb 04th 2013
239
And now he's called the n word by people in his own front office
Feb 06th 2013
240
Has he told them, "Fuck you, pay me" yet?
Feb 06th 2013
241
goddamn. he aint even stepped on the field yet
Feb 06th 2013
242
sure did. scored two in his first game.
Feb 06th 2013
243
      and could of had more than two
Feb 06th 2013
244
           could've
Feb 06th 2013
246
oh, those wacky berlusconis
Feb 06th 2013
245
      I hate that they own my team
Feb 07th 2013
252
Fined for beefing with police over parking at the airport:
Feb 07th 2013
247
was it the camoflauged Bentley though?
Feb 07th 2013
248
      He probably bought another car after he landed in Italy
Feb 07th 2013
249
           parked in a tow-away zone... don't care, that car a throw-away holmes
Feb 07th 2013
250
           camoflauged ferrari!
Feb 07th 2013
251
Inter Milan fined for fans abusing Mario:
Feb 12th 2013
253
g:
Feb 26th 2013
254
this is the greatest news ever
Feb 27th 2013
255
this post was a great idea, btw
Feb 27th 2013
256
They don't like him in Italy....this seems excessive:
Apr 09th 2013
257
TIME MAGAZINE one of the 100 most influential people in the WORLD
Apr 18th 2013
258
whoa.
Apr 18th 2013
259
O wow. Glad to see him in there
Apr 19th 2013
260
11 goals in 11 matches at AC Milan. Netted 2 yesterday:
May 09th 2013
261
Mario Kart for real
May 11th 2013
262
*stuck betwixt a facepalm and a fist pump*
May 11th 2013
263
I get a huge smile every time this thread reappears on the first page
May 11th 2013
264
i love his logic
May 11th 2013
265
nothing too fun this week
May 20th 2013
266
Keeps winning tho, that is some consolation.
May 21st 2013
267
Wait...this dude has a pet piglet?
May 21st 2013
268
      I bet you the pig rides shotgun in the Ferrari too...lol
May 21st 2013
269
      oh shit, I missed that. Mario on some Ken Jeong shit.
May 21st 2013
270
YOU WILL SWEAT THE TEARS OF MY MOTHER! (swipe)
May 31st 2013
271
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
May 31st 2013
272
yo that's a hell of a line
May 31st 2013
273
Nobody knows what it means, but it's provocative.
Jun 07th 2013
275
Two yellow cards, wall catches the flak:
Jun 07th 2013
274
Since he was hurt and couldn't take a penalty yesterday...
Jun 28th 2013
276
+1
Jun 28th 2013
277
that stutter step is fierce
Jun 30th 2013
278
      yea there's been talk of banning it, not sure how enforcable itd be thou...
Jun 30th 2013
279
In case you didn't read Wright Thompson's piece
Jul 01st 2013
280
Great piece n/m
Jul 01st 2013
281
Sorella soldato parla del strinsero quelle*
Jul 29th 2013
282
Tickling the ivory
Aug 05th 2013
283
Forget Dos Equis...this guy is the World's Most Interesting Man.
Aug 05th 2013
284
so lovely
Aug 05th 2013
285
pirlo not impressed
Aug 05th 2013
286
      lol.
Aug 07th 2013
288
He must have watched that Mormon video:
Aug 07th 2013
287
lol @ with ease
Aug 07th 2013
289
      he don't know how to palm a ball and barely jumped
Aug 07th 2013
290
God blesses SI
Aug 20th 2013
291
'Why me?'
Aug 20th 2013
292
wow.
Aug 20th 2013
293
All good things come to an end: Penalty streak ends...but excitement? Ne...
Sep 22nd 2013
294
http://hasbalotellimissedapenalty.com/
Sep 22nd 2013
295
      Hahahaha...the internet is horrible
Sep 23rd 2013
296
Ex-police officer employed to look after Mario Balotelli (swipe):
Oct 28th 2013
297
possibly double parking in front of your favorite pub again:
Oct 28th 2013
298
SWAG.
Dec 16th 2013
299
i'm late
Jan 03rd 2014
300
Forgive me Mario, for I have sinned:
Jan 03rd 2014
301
Cause and effect
Jun 03rd 2014
302
Mario coaching Italy
Jun 17th 2014
303
some kids just ran on the field to take a selfie with balotelli
Jul 27th 2014
304
http://imgur.com/eIQxamY
Jul 28th 2014
307
      Love it!
Jul 28th 2014
308
AND he's got the baddest chick in the diaspora
Jul 27th 2014
305
Excellent
Jul 28th 2014
306
Just read his book last week
Jul 28th 2014
309
Balo to Anfield
Aug 21st 2014
310
anybody using an EPL team besides 'pool in FIFA15 is a buster
Aug 21st 2014
311
^ so american.
Aug 21st 2014
314
WOW.
Aug 21st 2014
316
So I just got back from two nights in Milan
Aug 21st 2014
312
Don't root for AC Milan
Aug 21st 2014
313
Root for neither
Aug 21st 2014
315
on paper, Milan has a better legacy than Inter.
Aug 21st 2014
317
Between fascist history and Berlusconi, it's not a good look
Aug 22nd 2014
318
Wild child struggling, but growing up too:
Oct 19th 2014
319
... but Mario loves the pigs
Oct 19th 2014
320
Was watching my first match in a long time
Oct 19th 2014
321
Now has more pets than goals in the Premiership for Liverpool:
Jan 03rd 2015
322
FINALLY!
Feb 11th 2015
323
honestly forgot he was on the team
Feb 12th 2015
324
they would be idiots to let him go....he compliments Sturridge
Feb 12th 2015
326
he hasn't been doing that.
Feb 13th 2015
327
      him with Sturridge would work just because of that...
Feb 13th 2015
329
           I thought we'd see Balo as a Suarez knock-off, not a Sturridge stand-in
Feb 13th 2015
330
                now that rodgers has found success with the 3-4-2-1
Feb 13th 2015
331
                     I appreciate you guy's insight.
Feb 13th 2015
332
                     agree as usual
Feb 15th 2015
333
                          balo was instrumental against palace as well
Feb 16th 2015
334
you're doing it wrong ---> he stays killing it for me in FIFA
Feb 13th 2015
328
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BwLvSQWIgAEWJ9U.jpg
Feb 12th 2015
325
HIS HEEL POWER IS GROWING [LINK]
Feb 19th 2015
335
One of the best penalty takers in the world
Feb 19th 2015
336
oh i don't disagree, but he's even a heel to his own teammates.
Feb 19th 2015
337
Hahahaha we all do
Feb 19th 2015
338
even when he does the right thing he aggravates ppl
Feb 19th 2015
339
zlatan thinks that zlatan should take it (c) adidas commercial
Feb 19th 2015
340
LOVE IT!!!! THAT'S OUR DUDE DOING HIS THING!!!!!
Feb 20th 2015
341
"I'm gonna take it." *gifneeded*
Feb 20th 2015
342
Frustrating season finally ends for MB:
May 25th 2015
343
The tragicomedy of Super Mario
Aug 15th 2015
344
Mario launches kid's football boots that have a mohawk/mullet
Aug 18th 2015
345
Our Boy is good again:
Oct 01st 2015
346
He's always had the talent
Oct 01st 2015
347
      After all this craziness...he's still only 25.
Oct 01st 2015
348
      Exactly...his talent level is that of a top player
Oct 01st 2015
349
Mario in Milan....still only 25. Can he get it together???
Apr 13th 2016
350
£230,000 a week
Apr 13th 2016
351
Mario terrorizing the French..of course they go low:
Jan 22nd 2017
352
Honestly this guy has suffered more racism than ANYONE
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ALWAYS BET ON BLACK!
Jun 07th 2017
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lol
Jun 07th 2017
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Doing doughnuts on the Autobahn next season????
Jun 07th 2017
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When Mario gets real service:
Jul 03rd 2017
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Balo AND Cassano
Jul 03rd 2017
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      They was cookin with grease that day...
Jul 03rd 2017
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      Frontline would have had to have been. Midfield had no pace
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      Easily the best Azzuri squad since '06
Jul 07th 2017
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Still scoring:
Nov 27th 2017
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The last days at Man City:
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Not so wild anymore! (swipe)
Mar 31st 2018
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returning to the Azzurri for the first time in four years (with Mancini!...
May 20th 2018
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Wishing this dude all the best....
May 21st 2018
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      He is settling into fatherhood...I think next couple years will be great
Jun 15th 2018
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Mancini brings him back to the Azzuri for Nations League
Sep 03rd 2018
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Back to the EPL???? (swipe):
Jan 07th 2019
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do it.
Jan 07th 2019
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this would be so cool
Jan 07th 2019
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Scores a scissor kick, goes straight to IG Live for the celebration
Mar 04th 2019
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LMAO!!!
Mar 04th 2019
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one my absolute all time favorite soccer players
Mar 06th 2019
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Longform Mario
Jan 03rd 2020
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a true cult figure of the sport
Jan 03rd 2020
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Lost and unsigned, is this it for Super Mario?
Sep 21st 2020
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Back in business....but where:
Oct 14th 2020
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oh man please come to MLS
Oct 14th 2020
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RE: don't call it a come back....yet
Nov 23rd 2020
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Free transfer to Monza ...next stop, Brazil or MLS???
Dec 07th 2020
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Scored four minutes into his debut with his new team
Dec 30th 2020
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I had no idea Kevin Prince Boateng was still playing:
Dec 30th 2020
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      Crazy, right?
Dec 31st 2020
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This thread is 10 years old
Dec 31st 2020
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it is my bonzai tree.
Jan 01st 2021
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RE: it is my bonzai tree.
Jan 02nd 2021
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Reset my password just to say hello to Mario
Jan 05th 2021
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      RE: Reset my password just to say hello to Mario
Jan 05th 2021
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      hell yeah
Jan 05th 2021
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Monza spell could help Balotelli rediscover a lost spark
Jun 07th 2021
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lol what a country
Jun 07th 2021
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      the precursor to Trump.
Jun 07th 2021
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The GOD took his talents to Turkey
Aug 06th 2021
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Mario scores, mocks opposing manager who mocked him 8 years ago....
Sep 22nd 2021
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Pic of our guy
Sep 22nd 2021
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he's still at it! insane goal in the turkish league
May 22nd 2022
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yo
May 22nd 2022
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Video game shit. LOL.
May 24th 2022
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Team number eleven for our guy
Sep 01st 2022
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Our guy is up for Goal of the Year with Mbappe and Richarlson:
Jan 14th 2023
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Super Mario in the booth with Rio Ferdinand (LOL) for CL Final!
Jun 13th 2023
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No more Swiss Cheese for Mario..may end up in the desert.
Sep 05th 2023
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Mario set poor Micah up when he went to La Viola
Sep 07th 2023
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TESTA DI CAZZO! LMAO!!!!!
Sep 08th 2023
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Castro
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1. "Oh and of course this post is incomplete without a Becky:"
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In this case a Missy:

http://celebgalz.com/mario-balotelli-girlfriend-melissa-castagnoli-balotelli-castagnoli-updates-photos/

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2. "Fuck Italy though, I'm a root for him, but poor choice"
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to commit to the Italian team, he knew what he was getting into. What is he origionally (Parents?) If somali then never mind, I guess he's stuck w/ the facists.

  

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3. "He's Ghanaian...can you imagine him on Ghana"
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besides the comedy and scandal that would ensue, Balotelli, Essien and Asamoah Gyan????? That's bananas.

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4. "Damn... that pisses me off!"
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him Guyan upfront would be epic

  

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6. "that was Ghana's biggest weakness, too"
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was that they had tons of midfielders, and no strikers except Gyan.

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5. "Oh he's definitely crazy"
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But I believe him about the racism thing. I only hope he gets it together in the next couple of years.

He's on track to be a beast though.

You're such pests...now, what is it you want? In your depths of your ignorance, what is it you want? Well, whatever it is you want, I can't deliver because I just don't see it. - Orson Welles


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7. "Also, he a fashion icon"
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http://unprofessionalfoul.com/2010/12/20/the-bootroom-manchester-city-v-everton/balotellihamburgerhelperhat/

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8. "That hat is the shiznit"
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9. "Yeah, I could see myself in a glovehat"
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Looked warm enough.

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10. "this kid drives me crazy. "
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in fact, most uber-talented wonderkids who have no sense drive me nuts.

if he only had a strong hand in his development, all of this could have been avoided.

at every turn, this kid shoots himself in the foot and then looks around for a guy with a gun. stupid.

if he gets it together and focuses on the field ... damn.

  

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11. "We've yet to see how good he can be on the field."
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He wasn't a regular starter at Inter. And injuries have limited his appearances for City so far. I believe when he's healthy and starting he is the real deal.

  

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12. "He scores damn near everytime he is on the pitch"
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but he is also carded damn near everytime he is on the pitch. I think this is a case of too much too soon. I hope he doesn't crash and burn though.

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13. "How is writing about Italian racism in the convo with foolish red cards?"
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I don't get it.

  

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14. "because Super Mario always finds a way to make a headline"
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15. "So he should have stayed quiet about it?"
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He's hardly the first player to point out that Italian football fans are racist as fuck.

  

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19. "not at all, but he doesn't help his cause with his behavior"
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16. "talented, unaccomplished, egomaniacal cunt."
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i look forward to seeing him crash and burn

at least wait until after youve proven yourself to become a thundercunt

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17. "RE: talented, unaccomplished, egomaniacal cunt."
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agreed - he's the next Anelka. He'll always look for the next hug transfer and increased salary while not working on his craft.

He will crash and burn even if he is talented - he hasn't got it mentally.

  

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21. "last I checked"
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Anelka hasn't exactly crashed and burned

  

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22. "I'm saying, I'll settle for being the next Anelka."
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18. "Dude keeps scoring:"
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Balotelli hat-trick sees off Villa


MANCHESTER, England (AP)Mario Balotelli scored a hat-trick as City secured a comfortable 4-0 win that puts it top of the Premier League table.

English media reports have suggested that Balotelli wants to leave City after failing to settle in Manchester but he was made to feel at home by the Aston Villa defense on Tuesday.

City, who could even afford to rest topscorer Carlos Tevez, was ahead in the 8th minute through a Balotelli penalty before Joleon Lescotts header doubled the lead in the 13th. Balotelli then notched his second with less than half-an-hour gone after good play from the excellent David Silva.

Balotellis third again came from the penalty spot to leave struggling Villa just two points above the relegation zone.

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20. "2 pens and a tap-in. weak"
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<--- Big Baller World Order

  

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23. "If the league title comes down to goal differential, its huge"
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those chippies add up.

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24. "Also he won the pen for the first goal."
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25. "terrific player but stuggles with bibs"
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http://www.twitvid.com/AHCJ1

  

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26. "Up there with "Crouchie's 'avin his nachos!!!" for striker stupidity"
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27. "You know you have discipline issues when De Jong tells you to chill."
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http://www.google.com/hostednews/ukpress/article/ALeqM5hi6gyfu_n6DfCXbhjMSdSUHep_fw?docId=N0083501300453469643A

De Jong: Balotelli needs to change

Manchester City midfielder Nigel de Jong fears Mario Balotelli will become a marked man because of his petulant behaviour.

Balotelli, 20, was red carded on Thursday night - his second of his debut season after arriving from Inter Milan in the summer. The Italian striker was banished to the dressing room in the 36th minute by Turkish referee Cuneyt Cakir for a studs-up challenge on Dynamo Kiev defender Goran Popov.

Manager Robert Mancini was incensed by Balotelli's action and de Jong is concerned that some opponents will target his team-mate. De Jong said: "Tomorrow is a new day and I am sure we are going to sit down with Mario. He has got to realise he has to change how he plays because he is always going to be a marked man. He knows that."

He added: "We have to continue with him as well. He has a lot of potential, the skill he shows at times is unbelievable.

"He is a talented boy and maybe you do not intend to let your team down with those sort of things.

"But I told him as well you have got to learn from your mistakes.

"We are there to help him, not to criticise him or blast him away.

"He has experienced guys around him and has to listen to them.

"After the game he was angry and he was disappointed. Sometimes you make mistakes and Mario made his mistake. But he will get everything straight again."

  

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28. "seriously. if that's not a sign i don't know what is."
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and i'm saying that taking into consideration that i actually like De Jong.

  

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29. "That's the first thing I thought of when I read the quote"
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Didn't de Jong get benched earlier this year for his reckless play?

  

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30. "Man City probe Balotelli dart incident (swipe):"
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20110328/wl_uk_afp/fblengpritamancitybalotelli

Man City probe Balotelli dart incident - report


LONDON (AFP) Manchester City are investigating reports that troublesome Italian striker Mario Balotelli threw a dart at youth-team players, according to a report by British daily The Independent on Monday.

Balotelli is alleged to have thrown "at least one dart" at members of City's youth squad at the club's Carrington training centre, but his intended targets are reported to have escaped unhurt.

"City are yet to establish a full understanding of why Balotelli threw the dart and will give him the chance to offer an explanation before deciding what action to take," wrote The Independent.

"Manager Roberto Mancini will also need to be brought up to speed with the incident, as he has been away from the club.

"He will seek an explanation from the 20-year-old striker before discussing the incident with senior executives at the club."

Balotelli has been a recurrent source of controversy since joining City from reigning Italian champions Inter Milan last year.

He was dropped from the Italy squad for their Euro 2012 qualifier against Slovenia last week after being sent off for a chest-high foul on an opponent in a Europa League game between City and Dynamo Kiev.


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31. "just don't give a fuck"
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lol

  

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32. "Darts yo???? WTF?"
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33. "wait, what?"
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34. "He brought Darts to practice and was throwing them at kids"
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I can't decide if this muhphucka needs an intervention or a reality show

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35. "yes."
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>I can't decide if this muhphucka needs an intervention or a
>reality show

  

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36. "developmentally challenged, ineffective mentoring, and millions of dolla..."
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what could go wrong with this guy?

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37. "so there was actually some mentoring???"
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In my mind, I am trying to picture what he has stashed in his car, which probably looks like this:

http://www.italiansupercar.net/isc/index.php?spgmGal=Specials/2011/Pagani_Huayra&spgmFilters=t&option=com_mambospgm&Itemid=29&option=com_mambospgm&Itemid=29#?


N.E.R.D. cd, the 2 or three HTC phones he 'lost' in the car, girlie mags, and he has a pack of darts. Darts.

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38. "probably something in preparation for the italian race war"
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39. "I feel like another chapter is about to be written"
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something happened at the end of this FA Cup Semi.

Dude is such a clown

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40. "He got carded? Drove his Lambo on the pitch? "
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Kicked someone's Pomeranian??? You gotta narrow it down for me because the sky's the limit with Mario....

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42. "got into it with Rio and Van der Sar after the final whistle"
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the entire rest of the team was celebrating and he was over starting shit with United lol

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44. "Lol..."
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41. "i saw rio mad as fuck but didn't see what mario did...."
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fill us in

  

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43. "yeah I'm not there we saw the same feed, it will come out in an hour or ..."
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45. "sounds like he taunted the United Fans..."
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from the Daily Telegraph:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/competitions/fa-cup/8450791/Manchester-City-1-Manchester-United-0-match-report.html

"The game had been tense and tetchy at times and it spilled over after the final whistle. Mario Balotelli ran towards the United fans, incensing the United players. First Anderson and then Rio Ferdinand confronted the Italian, with Ferdinand leaving the field still ranting furiously."

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46. "LMAO at this:"
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47. "Mario wins 25,000 pounds at casino, gives 1,000 to a 'tramp': "
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The last couple years have been an endless parade of Mario Balotelli doing things and then everyone else telling you how horrible those things were. Which is why this story is so jarring and might make you cry for reasons that you can't fully comprehend.

According to The Sun, Balotelli gave 1,000 cash to a homeless man after winning 25,000 inside a Manchester casino last week. The man was apparently someone Mario has come across more than once in his travels around Manchester and after his good fortune in the casino on a night out with Blackburn's Chris Samba, he was in a giving mood.

A source said: "Mario is really generous. He always hands 20 notes to the Big Issue boys without even taking the magazine. There's a guy he always sees around town with ginger dreadlocks and a beard. He carries his possessions in two carrier bags.

"He was outside the club in the early hours so Mario handed him a wad of notes after his big win. The tramp couldn't believe his luck. It was enough to keep him going for months."

Given all we've been told, this really doesn't compute, does it? I mean, ginger dreadlocks? That alone is enough to give you a migraine.

Anyway, since we know that Mario Balotelli is pretty much the most evil person to ever walk the earth and that people always fit into easily definable pigeonholes, we can rightly assume that the only reason Mario committed this tremendous act of generosity was so he could run over the happy rasta ginger with his car, collect the money he just gave the now crippled hobo and then do it all over again outside another casino the next night. This just might be why Rio Ferdinand attacked him after the FA Cup semifinal.

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48. "Ginger Dreadlocks needs an alias Stat"
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50. "i need my money stat."
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http://board.okayplayer.com/okp.php?az=show_topic&forum=8&topic_id=1727698&mesg_id=1727698&page=#1730197

  

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49. " 'SUPER' Mario to police "fuck your traffic laws" (swipe) LMAO"
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this dude just dont give a fuck. impounded 27 times, 3 tickets a day, 30g in the passenger seat. i'm officially on team mario now. he can do no wrong in my eyes.

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showbiz/bizarre/3544840/Manchester-City-star-Mario-Balotelli-car-in-pound-27-times.html

MADCAP MARIO BALOTELLI has notched up nearly 10,000 in parking fines and had his luxury car impounded 27 TIMES, The Sun can reveal.

The Manchester City star has left liaison officers at the club tearing their hair out as they have had to go back time and time again to reclaim his Maserati.

The 100,000-a-week Italian striker has had an average of three parking tickets a DAY since he signed for the Premier League club last year.

A source at the club said: "Mario will drive from his luxury apartment to a restaurant a few streets away and leave the car on double yellows.

"The other week the Maserati misfired so he just abandoned it. Staff have had to bail it out 27 times.

"The valet the club uses empties the glovebox of tickets every time he cleans it. Mario doesn't seem to care. It's a drop in the ocean to him."

The source added: "Mario was pulled over by the police and he had 25,000 cash on the passenger seat. They asked him why and he said, 'Because I can'. He doesn't care much for authority."

Balotelli has also paid 300,000 in club fines, most recently for throwing darts at a youth team player.

And on the field he has had ten yellow cards and two reds in only 24 appearances

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56. "how is this even possible?"
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>an average of three parking tickets a DAY

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51. "Balotelli helps a kid out with his bullying problem (swipe)"
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so it appears that Balotelli isnt a total asshole.

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showbiz/bizarre/3571579/Mario-Balotelli-helps-City-fan-being-bullied-at-school.html#ixzz1LuhwrSut

The Manchester City star helped a young autograph hunter being picked on at school - by confronting the bully himself.

The striker questioned why the young lad was playing truant with his mum outside the club's Carrington training ground rather than attending school.

After the fan revealed that he was being bullied, Mario drove the youngster and his mum over to the school in question and demanded a meeting with the headteacher.

The Blues ace got the youngster to confess what had been happening and made him identify the culprit. The lads eventually shook hands before Mario got into his white Maserati and sped off.

A source said: "Mario feels strongly about bullying and thinks it's out of order.

"He had no qualms about sorting the mess out as he felt the lad should not be missing out on school."

If you were the bullied lad's mum, please get in contact.

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52. "Mario just shocked the censors:"
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http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2011/writers/peter_berlin/05/14/saturday.epl/index.html?eref=sihp&sct=hp_wr_a3

(Not all of City's high-priced signings have hit the ground running. Mario Balotelli, City's mercurial striker was asked in a live on-field interview after the final if this had been his best game for City. He mortified ITV, which broadcast the game in England, by declaring, with jaw-dropping honesty, "All my season I was shit.")

Read more: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2011/writers/peter_berlin/05/14/saturday.epl/index.html#ixzz1MN2b7Buz

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53. "He's right too. I'll give him credit though. He played great today."
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54. "well, props to him for his honesty."
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i hate Man City but i watched the game and he did have his best game of the year in my opinion, even without scoring.

  

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55. "He played his best on the biggest stage...he is for real...."
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57. "Throwing water balloons at people >>> celebrating the FA Cup (swipe)"
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well done dumbass.

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/sport/football/3598759/Mario-Balotelli-throws-water-bombs-at-Serie-A-meeting.html

The controversial Italian striker, 20, was caught on camera throwing water bombs at a meeting of Serie A club chiefs on Monday - having been given the night off by City for 'family reasons'.

Balotelli also dodged City's end-of-season dinner on Sunday night, during which he was named as their Young Player of the Season.

But, on Monday evening, Italian TV caught him, his brother Enoch and agent Mino Raiola larking about at the annual Milan event.

Together they drenched TV crews while, earlier, Balotelli brought chaos to the narrow streets as he tried to park his white Maserati before being picked up by Raiola.

Despite ducking what proved to be a memorable night back in Manchester, Balotelli admitted he knew how important it was to everyone at his club.

He said: "Winning the FA Cup was fantastic. I didn't realise just how important it was until we got to the final.

"So I managed to do something good this season and I'm doing well with Roberto Mancini. For the fans, the FA Cup is worth almost as much as winning the Premier League."

Balotelli's future is likely to be the subject of more speculation this summer but he insists he will stay put.

He said: "If I come back to Italy, the first thing I am going to do is go home.

"A return to Inter? Who knows, they are a big club. I miss my old team-mates but not Inter and I am doing well in England.

"I am not dreaming about Milan, I am happy with life in Manchester."

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58. "RE: The wildest child: 'SUPER' Mario Balotelli"
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http://www.metro.co.uk/sport/861398-mario-balotelli-gives-1-000-to-homeless-man-after-big-casino-win

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59. "#47"
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60. "He's back LMAO"
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Mario Balotelli subbed after 30 minutes after going clean through then trying to backheel the finish - Angry exchanges with Mancini on sidelines

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61. "lmfao wish he made that"
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62. "linkage"
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9VwVeCgcRs&feature=youtu.be

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63. "Him being an idiot would be funnier if he wasn't an ungodly talent."
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But alas.

  

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64. "its an exhibition. let that boy cook."
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the announcers was going in on that nigga too.

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66. "I could see him doing that in an important match"
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He doesn't seem to be the most deep thinking of human beings.

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65. "LOOOOL. He's a wild boy!"
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67. "Epic."
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I missed it live because I was watching the Copa America final and had to go back to see it. It was even better seeing it live.

Fantastic.

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68. "At this rate, he may fuck up enough that he ends up in MLS. "
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Can you imagine him playing for DC United LOL...getting locked up for parking his Maserati in front of the white house

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69. "that is some shit he would do though"
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men are so simple, and so subject to present necessities, that he who seeks to deceive will always find someone who will allow himself to be deceived. (c)Niccol Machiavelli

  

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70. "lol. Please Baby Jesus let this happen."
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Put him on NY with Henry.

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73. "That shit would be ridic...and he'd lead the league in scoring"
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He'd have like 46 goals and 12 red cards in MLS LMAO

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71. "lol"
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74. "What an absolute fool"
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And then to have the nerve to question/argue with Mancini afterwards.

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72. "i always thought this was about Marco Bellinelli"
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-The Knicks’ coaching search still includes a lone frontrunner, Kurt Rambis, whose qualifications for the position include a strong relationship with Jackson and a willingness to take the job.

  

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114. "cosign"
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75. "He reportedly had his iPad on the Italian bench..."
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for their Euro Qualifier vs. Faroe Islands. LULZ.

he really is wild.

the tweet:

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Story emerging from Coverciano that Mario Balotelli had his iPad with him on the #azzurri bench on Friday night. Coach Prandelli not happy.

  

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76. "Mario says it was only during warm-ups...lulz"
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77. "he's just getting warmed up for some mid season shenanigans"
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78. "Arsene shoulda made a move for him too btw..."
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First of all, because for the right price he could probably be had right now, esp. since tevez is still on board as cover for Kun and Dzeko.

Secondly, because Arsene + Mario = comedy.

  

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79. ""Balotelli quizzed over Mafia links" (swipe). This guy is the best."
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Balotelli quizzed over Mafia links
September 8, 2011


By ESPN staff

Mario Balotelli's turbulent Manchester City career has taken another unsteady turn with the striker ordered by Italian police to explain his links to the country's Mafia.

Balotelli, who has courted controversy since making a 24 million switch from Inter Milan last summer, has been called as a witness by prosecutors in Naples for an anti-Mafia investigation that is going to trial next week.

The forward was given a guided tour of a notorious crime-ridden district of Naples by Mario Iorio, a catering entrepreneur who has been charged with money laundering as part of an ongoing crime investigation. Balotelli will face stiff questioning on his links to Iorio and regarding his visit to the Scampia area when he appears before prosecutors on September 15.

"There is nothing to worry about. I am calm. I had no idea who the people were showing me around Scampia," Balotelli said when asked about the court visit.

"That day there were loads of people around me. I'm sad the effect this may have on my family. I just wanted to see what the area was like as I had seen it in the film Gomorrah."

http://soccernet.espn.go.com/news/story/_/id/953949/man-city%27s-mario-balotelli-quizzed-over-links-to-the-mafia?cc=5901

He said, "I just wanted to see what the area was like as I had seen it in the film Gomorrah"!!! You couldn't make this stuff up.

  

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80. "I get giddy when I see this pop up on page 1 here"
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81. "for real"
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Also, haha:

>I had no idea who the people were showing me around Scampia

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82. "LOL"
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83. "woooooooow"
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84. "fuck a Scarface poster on the wall, this dude is living the dream"
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dude is sonning the entire NBA hood contingent with the headlines he's pulling. they're going to NEED this lockout out to catch up with this Italian kid.

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85. "SUSPENDED. "
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http://sports.yahoo.com/soccer/news?slug=goal-mariobalotelliwarnedhemusta

Roberto Mancini has told Mario Balotelli he must adapt to the rotation policy at Manchester City.

The 21-year-old has featured just once in the Premier League this season, watching on as Edin Dzeko and Sergio Aguero notched up 12 goals between them.


Balotelli is set to miss out again on Wednesday as City makes its Champions League bow at home to Napoli. The forward is suspended following his red card in Citys Europa League campaign last season, and Mancini has warned him he will not be figuring in every game.


"Mario will have to adapt to the situation, he will not be playing for the next few matches," Mancini told reporters. "I count myself very lucky to rely on four strikers, especially in a situation where the team needs to play every three days. I can have a good turnover of the strikers.


Meanwhile, Mancini has backed former captain Carlos Tevez to rediscover the form which led him to be crowned leading goalscorer in the Premier League last season.

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86. "Class goal from Super Mario today"
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Came on as a sub and score the eventual winner for City over Everton:
http://www.101greatgoals.com/videodisplay/mario-balotelli-everton-15451032/

Said Mancini afterward: "Mario didn't start for three or four games but he has worked well, did not say anything and he was waiting for this moment. He scored an important goal and now it is important that he can continue. Mario is a good guy. Sometimes his behaviour has been so-so but he's a good guy. He likes Manchester City and he likes English football. He was really happy. Sometimes when he scores he is unhappy but he knew this was a very big goal for us."

Long live Super Mario!

  

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87. "Super Mario can't stop scoring"
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Look at this finish http://www.101greatgoals.com/videodisplay/mario-balotelli-blackburn-15492087/

  

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88. "Super Mario rides his bicycle..."
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...wins Man of the Match honors...

http://www.101greatgoals.com/videodisplay/mario-balotelli-aston-villa-15555507/

  

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89. "hmm...he's been playing too well lately"
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it's time for some dumb shit to happen to balance it out.

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90. "burning your own house down lighting fireworks in your bathroom?"
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only super mario could do that.

  

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91. "Link!"
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2011/oct/22/mario-balotelli-house-fire-fireworks

I'd never thought of him as a Darwin Award waiting to happen, but damn. And you know he had tons of money just lying around.

  

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92. "he ran back in to save a quantity of cash. it keeps getting better."
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93. "LMAO super mario is ON FIRE"
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men are so simple, and so subject to present necessities, that he who seeks to deceive will always find someone who will allow himself to be deceived. (c)Niccol Machiavelli

  

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94. "this nigga is taking it to another level."
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<--- Big Baller World Order

  

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95. "and went back in to get a suitcase and a bag full of money"
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You know one has become a legend too unbelievable to ever make up when they set fire to their own house by launching fireworks out of their window late at night and the public response isn't "Why would he do that?" but "Of course he did that." And that's the position Manchester City striker Mario Balotelli finds himself in now, with a charred house, some used up fireworks and an ever-growing list of odd feats that only he could compile by the age of 21 all because he seems to have gotten a little prematurely excited about this Sunday's big Manchester derby.

From the Guardian:

Two fire crews using breathing apparatus put out the flames after being called to Balotelli's house just before 1am on Saturday to deal with what has been described as "a substantial fire" on the first floor. The property, in Mottram St Andrew, Cheshire, sustained serious fire and smoke damage and the police were also called in part to ensure Balotelli did not go back into the house. The striker is said to have been reluctant to leave his belongings and, at one point, to have run back inside to recover a quantity of money and a suitcase.

Balotelli checked into a Manchester hotel and took part in training as normal at 10am. He has told club officials he and four friends were setting off fireworks through an open window. The bathroom towels set on fire and the blaze quickly spread. Balotelli has claimed that one of his friends had set off the firework. That, however, is unlikely to spare the player a reprimand from Mancini and a reminder that City's management staff would have expected him to be asleep at that time rather than exposing himself to the possibility of serious injury.

Really? Have they met Mario Balotelli? The man they fined for throwing darts out of a window (I'm noticing a trend here) at youth team players as a joke, the man who took his brother trespassing at a women's prison in Italy just because he wanted to see a prison, and the man who left training to take a kid back to school and confront the child's bully? Because everyone else's reaction seems to be "Well, it's about time. Mario's been a little quiet lately." And he has.



Teammate Nigel De Jong said that Balotelli has been "acting normal...for him" after he scored with a brilliant overhead kick last weekend. Manager Roberto Mancini said he had hope that Mario was "changing mentally," which shows how far he's come in the coach's eyes since he was yanked out of a preseason match against L.A. for attempting a goofy spinning backheel move.

Anyway, if Mario really is organizing the club's Christmas party, all guests might want to locate the nearest hospital before attending.

Photo: Getty

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96. "why always me?"
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Dude was even like get the fuck off me to his teamates

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97. "He really showed out today - man of the match"
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His touch is world class, only if he had that mike Jordan obsession, will, focus hed be up there with the best

  

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98. "http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ltj0nyb0gc1qe6de8o1_400.jpg"
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http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ltj0nyb0gc1qe6de8o1_400.jpg

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99. "30-foot Super Mario Balotelli to be burned on Bonfire Night:"
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http://sports.yahoo.com/soccer/blog/dirty-tackle/post/30-foot-Super-Mario-Balotelli-to-be-burned-on-Bo;_ylt=ArwYGVRUxE.ytDTILQh1MlgXwLYF?urn=sow-wp6267



Last year, a Shrekish Wayne Rooney became the first footballer to ever get a giant, fireworks-filled effigy in his honor for Guy Fawkes Night. This year, the only man it could've been, Mario Balotelli -- complete with Super Mario cap, diamond earrings, hand-held mansion, a giant bottle rocket and "Why always me?" shirt -- gets one of his own.

Balotelli was a late, yet unanimous pick for this year's effigy. But having a firework house fire and promoting fireworks safety days later made him an easy pick for the Edenbridge Bonfire Society.

From the Daily Mail:

Jon Mitchell, from Edenbridge Bonfire Society, said: 'We were all quite worried a few days ago because no celebrities had done anything quite silly enough to be celebrated on November 5.

'We thought about the politicians and the other usual suspects - but Super Mario earned a unanimous vote among the committee.'

The effigies are always done in good fun and Mitchell said that he's sure a man like Mario will see the humor in it. And it's even funnier when you realize that even after the 30-foot, fireworks-filled Balotelli has been set ablaze, it still won't be the most dangerous Mario Balotelli out there.

Related: England

  

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100. "WOW. he loves to be hated tho, i get the sense he feeds off of it."
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dude's got skillzes tho no doubt.

that said i would NEVER want him on my squad. maybe once he's a little older (+hopefully wiser).

haters: notice i didnt say WHICH squad. cheers!

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I wonder why I wonder.
I wonder why I wonder why
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101. "The secret footballer checks in"
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Don't know if anyone reads his weekly article, but this current premier league player gives an interesting perspective on professional football in Europe. This past week was about Super Mario.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/blog/2011/oct/28/the-secret-footballer-mario-balotelli

The Secret Footballer: misunderstood Mario is a much-loved maverick

The cult radio DJ Howard Stern once said that his fans tuned in for an average of an hour a day while those who despised the American shock-jock and his show (and there were many), listened for almost two and a half hours. The New York station WNBC enlisted a team of researchers to get to the bottom of this bizarre phenomenon. Almost every listener returned the same answer: "I want to see what he'll say next." Which reminds me of someone else.

Mario Balotelli may have as good a claim as any modern-day player to being the latest incarnation of the much‑misunderstood and similarly adored maverick footballer. Since his arrival in England last August, the Italian can cross off his own personal "to do" list: setting fire to his house (albeit with a little help from his friends), writing off a 70,000 car, throwing darts at Manchester City's youth-team players and defying club orders to attend the FA Cup parade.

His performances on the pitch are every bit as colourful. Fans have been treated to a petulant red card that all but cost City their European adventure last season, a bizarre pirouette in a pre‑season friendly in America (for which he was immediately substituted) and glimpses of the exceptional raw talent that persuaded City's management to shell out 22m.

In what may well be a flaw in my own make-up, I profess to have a huge weakness for what many commentators diplomatically refer to as "one of the game's characters". From George Best and Stan Bowles to Paolo Di Canio and Eric Cantona, players who are mutually respected among fans from various clubs usually have two things that stand out: a complete disregard for what anybody thinks of them and a natural gift for playing the game.

I've been fortunate enough to have played with a couple who belong in the same category. One of them made it easy for everyone who met him to never want to have anything to do with him again, such was the apparent arrogance of the man. But working on my principle of not prejudging before engaging in any worthwhile conversation, I eventually found him to be one of the most natural, funny and intelligent people I have ever known and, above all, completely misunderstood.

Even the local police warmed to him such was his standing at our club. On one occasion he had accumulated several driving offences seen by the same two officers over a short period of time, yet they never reported him. They would just escort him into training and, amazingly, pull the manager aside and tell him to have a word on their behalf. On a match day he was generally sublime.

Everyone learns to be tolerant of these individuals. A manager will soon recognise when to ask for more and when to ease off, as do fellow players. The seemingly special treatment "Paolo" received was always held against him until 5pm, by which time he might well have won us the game. For me, he will always be an inspiration as well as the player who stole my car keys to drive 200 miles home after being substituted at half-time because his car was blocked in.

Today that story brings a smile to my face only "Paolo" could have pulled off a stunt like that but there were also occasions when he had the capacity to infuriate me as well as others. Perhaps it was because he was foreign and was "handled" differently. Some of his antics were accepted, I'm sure, because our manager couldn't tell if certain aspects of his behaviour were in some way normal for people from "Paolo's" country.

The word on the football grapevine last season was that at Manchester City some of the English players felt that their foreign team-mates were getting cut more slack when it came to the way they were treated. Roberto Mancini, the City manager, has certainly been extremely patient with Balotelli in the face of some testing situations, equally Carlos Tevez prior to the Bayern Munich incident that would have pushed any manager over the edge.

Yet when Adam Johnson produced a man-of-the-match performance against Wolves on Wednesday night, four days after he had failed to even get on the bench at Old Trafford, Mancini chose to highlight a negative rather than applaud his response to being snubbed. "Adam has everything and it disappoints me when he plays every game and doesn't put everything on the pitch," Mancini said. "Tonight he played well but, for example, on the second goal that Wolves scored, he didn't follow his opponent."

Balotelli's problems have, at times, run much deeper than failing to track back but the Italian seems to escape censure from Mancini as long as the good outweighs the bad. His team‑mates will certainly be grateful for his presence on the pitch as long as he continues to perform like he did against Manchester United, and there won't be too many gripes with what he gets up to off the field if it deflects attention away from any of their own misdemeanours.

It is also worth noting that not everything Manchester's recently anointed fire-safety officer gets up to belongs on a crime sheet. Balotelli has become a lovable rogue because of the story that surfaced of him returning a young boy who was playing truant to his school and confronting his bullies on the pupil's behalf, and then there was the night when he came out of a casino and handed a homeless gentleman 1,000 in cash.

Whether Balotelli will go on to become one of Manchester City's great players is unclear; I couldn't even tell you if he will be at the club next year or volunteering in a soup kitchen instead, which is another of the striker's pastimes, apparently.

How can anybody second-guess a man who seems to thrive on spontaneity? But whatever he does, I will definitely be watching, because like everyone else, I'm desperate to see what he's going to do next.

Follow the Secret Footballer on Twitter @TSFGuardian

  

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102. "shitted on sczczny in internationals"
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hddo-YmQ8Oc

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103. "LOL sczadkfny LOL (videos down btw, damn copyright!)"
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>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hddo-YmQ8Oc


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I wonder why I wonder.
I wonder why I wonder why
I wonder why I wonder!
--RPF.

Stay hungry. Stay foolish.
--that magazine Steve used to read.

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104. "found it, sick lob: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded..."
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=GWxRYMJ9NJE

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I wonder why. I wonder why.
I wonder why I wonder.
I wonder why I wonder why
I wonder why I wonder!
--RPF.

Stay hungry. Stay foolish.
--that magazine Steve used to read.

Nice to be important and all, but more important to be nice.
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105. "Two yellows in 6 minutes, sees red 82nd minute vs. Liverpool, LOLz"
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106. "I laughed."
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The 'confrontation' with Mancini was priceless.

His reaction said, "get the fuck out of my house, NOW"

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107. "shoulder goal. omg. I don't know if he's an idiot or a genius"
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awhCOSX2YZc

http://theclassical.org/theclog/this-week-in-mario-balotelli-the-shoulder-goal

honestly, that's pretty swagged the fuck out.


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108. "lol watching live, the angle looked like he punched in the ball"
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THAT would've been phenomenal given the scoreline.

Mancini would've probably ran out onto the field and physically removed him.

the shoulder was still superb.

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109. "who would even think of doing that?"
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111. "you mean the shoulder tap? that was fairly natural play"
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I mean, granted, other dudes might have pulled a more standard chest trap to bump the ball in, but the ball was falling to Balotelli so that he had to make some kind of play with his chest to kill the play off. any striker in the world is taking some kind of upper body touch in that position.

so, for me, the goal was fairly meh, it was just the Balotelli swagger that made it amazing.

did you peep his PK + stare down from a week or two prior? that was 10x more baller than this one to me, cuz his PK run up was OVER THE TOP, like more little fakes and feints than the most elaborate C. Ronaldo run-up, and he LITERALLY froze the goalie to the spot, the goalie didn't even react to Balotelli's shot he had so thoroughly gotten into the GK's head and defeated him before he even kicked the ball. then the stare down afterwards ... so yeah, that one was more impressive than the shoulder tap to me, even though it was just finishing a PK.

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113. "link?"
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115. "yes plz. somebody faking and feignting more than cristiano i need to see"
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whether on the field or off, thats a bold statement

he fakes movements, he feigns being touched, he fakes caring about things other than himself ... mario got that over him? i'm intrigued

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116. "video's pulled down everywhere I know to look (stupid ass EPL)"
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but yeah, they're probably just trying to hide the angle showing the piss running down the goalies leg lol.

he had subtle stutter steps, a couple of eye fakes in a stare down prior to the kick, and then his technique when he buried it masked his shot superbly, goalie was ROOTED to the spot as the ball flew past him, Balotelli just kept walking at him with his arms crossed staring him down. it was gangsta as hell, dude never disappoints.

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117. "I saw that shit on tv, it was fuckin ill."
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110. "this is how it is done, son"
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http://watchhighlightsonline.blogspot.com/2011/12/video-drogba-goal-vs-newcastle-striking.html

  

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112. "Relatively tame, def added his swag but it's a natural motion"
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118. "Sword fighting with rolling pins after curfew in a curry spot:"
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http://soccernet.espn.go.com/news/story/_/id/995689/mario-balotelli-facing-fine-for-breaking-man-city-curfew-

Controversial Manchester City striker Mario Balotelli is facing an internal investigation and possible disciplinary action after breaching the club's late-night curfew ahead of Monday's Premier League match at Chelsea.


Mario Balotelli is no stranger to controversy
Balotelli was spotted in Manchester curry house Zouk in the early hours of Sunday morning despite club rules stating players must not be out socialising within 48 hours of a game.

The 21-year-old Italian, who was not drinking alcohol, signed autographs, posed for pictures with fellow diners and was involved in a mock sword-fight using rolling pins.

City boss Roberto Mancini is tolerant of his players socialising responsibly but the club have confirmed a curfew was in place ahead of the fixture at Stamford Bridge and the manager will ask Balotelli to explain his actions.

Balotelli has made headlines for a raft of unusual reasons since joining City, including causing a blaze by fireworks being let off in his bathroom; throwing darts at a youth team player last season; and driving into women's prison.

Despite his often bizarre behaviour off the pitch, he has show an increased maturity on it, scoring ten goals in all competitions. He is likely to be a substitute against Chelsea.

  

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119. "School in Sudan naming a wing after Mario:"
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http://sports.yahoo.com/soccer/blog/dirty-tackle/post/Part-of-a-school-in-South-Sudan-named-after-Mari;_ylt=Ap5Akv1SJcCGMboP23EVxigXRJ54?urn=sow-wp7365


Part of a school in South Sudan named after Mario Balotelli



You might not expect children to be educated in a building with a wing named after Mario Balotelli, a 21-year-old footballer known for having his bathroom charred in a fireworks accident and scoring goals with his shoulder, but it is happening.

He's given wads of cash to homeless strangers and reportedly accompanied a child to school so he could confront a bully, so in a way, donating money to build a school is a natural progression in the good deeds of Mario Balotelli.

From Eurosport:

Kon Kelei, now 29, was forced into battle as a four-year-old by rebels of the Sudan's People Liberation Army, but he later escaped the conflict and became a refugee in Holland.

After graduating in law during his time in the Netherlands, he returned to South Sudan following their declaration of independence, after which a film documenting his life was produced, titled 'The Silent Army'.

Balotelli was so moved after watching the biopic that he made contact with Kelei and offered to help finance a project to build a secondary school.

The secondary school in Cuey Machar will now have a 'Mario Balotelli wing' in the Italian's honour.

According to Balotelli's official website, he donated his compensation from a testimonial match to Kelei's project. As much as we all joke about Mario's often surreal antics, he's already done more for others at just 21 years old than many people twice his age. It's probably just a matter of time before they build statues of him in town squares with the words "Why always me?" etched across his chest.

Meanwhile, it remains unclear what they will be teaching in the Mario Balotelli wing. But psychology, advanced hairstyling and remedial pyrotechnics would all be solid options.

  

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120. "Facts about Balotelli from Reddit (swipe)"
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gotta love him.

http://www.reddit.com/r/soccer/comments/nha93/some_interesting_facts_about_balotelli/

Survived a usually fatal disease at birth

10,000 in parking fines

Car impounded 27 times

300,000 fine for throwing darts at the youth team

Won 25,000 in a casino, gave 1,000 to a tramp outside

Rescued a child from bullying

Threw tomatoes at some Serie A manager

Threw water balloons at Serie A meeting

Started a fight with 4 bouncers, after breaking the no touching rule at a strip club

Thinks milk with tea is strange

Bibotelli saga

Had a 120,000 Audi R8 imported and wrote it off within a week

Had his friends approach girls in clubs and say "Balotelli will see you now."

Sent to John Lewis by his mother to buy essentials for the house, like an ironing board Came back with a giant trampoline and a Vespa and Scalectrix

Started fights with Kompany, Boateng and Tevez at training

Was frequently seen at the AC Milan superstore while playing for inter

Went on TV in an AC shirt with his name on while at inter

U21s game for Italy, kicks a swedish player while he's down and proceeds to just sit on the pitch ignoring the opposition and the referee for about a minute.

Is then offended when he gets sent off and protests about it

He winked at Ferdinand at the semi final of the FA cup and celebrate in front of the Man U fans.

After the FA cup final, on live TV, says "This season I have been s***. Can I say that?"

Was stopped by police driving round Hulme (a real craphole) in his maserati with 25,000 cash on the passenger seat. When asked why he said "because I'm rich"

Had to go off at half time in a game in Ukraine due to an allergy to the pitch

Had to be physically hauled away by Zanetti for refusing to let Samuel Eto'o take a penalty that he had won

Once broke up with a girlfriend via text while she was presenting a live television show

Slept with a model while his girlfriend was asleep downstairs

*** mental chicken hat

When he won the European Golden Boy trophy, said he had never heard of Jack Wilshere

Said he would find out who he was so he could remind Wilshere he came second

Drove his car into a women's prison so he could have a look around

Swore on live TV after the FA cup final

Attempted a roulette back heel shot against LA Galaxy and missed

Connections with the Naples Mafia, he even testified in court at a Mafia trial

Brought iPad to bench during International friendly.

Set house on fire using fireworks

Said only Messi is "a little stronger" than him, and he is better than all other players

"Why always me?" shirt, made for him by City kitman Chappy

Drove around Manchester high fiving city fans from his car the day after >1-6

Became the face of a firework safety campaign days after setting his house on fire

Hands 20 notes out to strangers when in Manchester

Chanted Rooney! Rooney! at the prostitute who claimed to have slept with Wayne

Italy were showing off their brand new home kit. After half time, Balotelli came out for the second half, having for no apparent reason changed into the old kit. Nobody else on the pitch had changed.

Turned the landscaped back garden of his rented mansion in to a quad bike race track

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121. "white people love the coon"
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Hey,look its mario!

dance on your head!

FOH

Let's please get back to the tables!...

  

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122. "It's been too long-- Makes surprise school visit to use bathroom"
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http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/soccer-dirty-tackle/mario-balotelli-makes-surprise-school-visit-bathroom-181357870.html

Since Mario Balotelli has already solved school bullying and taught kids about firework safety, there really is just one thing left for him to do in a place of learning: use the toilet. And according to the latest report on the Man City striker's perhaps fictional behavior, that's exactly what he did.

From the Manchester Evening News:

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.

After spending a penny he went into the staff room to speak to teachers.

Accompanied by three friends he then walked around the campus of the sixth form college followed by cheering Man City supporting students.

After staying for around 20 minutes Balotelli and his friends drove off leaving amazed students frantically calling and texting their friends to tell them what happened.



Most grown men who show up at a school unannounced and hang out in the bathroom have the police called on them, but not Mario. After all, this is the same guy who drove right into an Italian women's prison without consequence, so clearly Mario is immune to normal legal standards.

Still, I'm increasingly convinced that Mario's whole life is an endless series of dares from a mysterious and brilliant puppet master friend of his.

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123. "Cool...I was about to post this!"
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124. "Balotelli: A Jazz Opera (courtesy crossdamon's post)"
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http://www.goal.com/en/news/9/england/2012/01/21/2858849/manchester-citys-mario-balotellis-off-field-antics-inspire

Manchester City's Mario Balotelli's off-field antics inspire composer to write an opera about his life


Jan 21, 2012 3:51:00 PM
By John Stammers

Manchester City's eccentric striker Mario Balotelli has divided opinions with his off-field antics, but now his moments of madness or "gifts from heaven" as they have been described by composer and fan Patrick Knowles are being transformed into an opera.

Knowles is planning to compose a jazz opera based on Balotelli's life and believes that it has the potential to be a massive success as well as boosting people's opinion of the controversial Italian.

By normal standards hes crazy but people havent had his experience. He was abandoned by his birth parents," the composer told the Manchester Evening News.

Now he does things like go to a casino with Chris Samba and hands some of his winnings to a tramp.

You couldnt write this kind of thing. Its a gift from heaven.

"To put that to music would be amazing. It could be the biggest opera since Jerry Springer. Its going to be enormous.

I believe this guy is going to be the biggest thing since Cassius Clay.

I dont think theres any bad blood in him. Id hope to improve the image of Mario Balotelli."

Knowles, who has already composed a piece of music entitled 'Balotelli - Why Always Me' believes he can relate well to Balotelli, describing the Manchester City striker as "confused".

I think I understand him better than most people because of our backgrounds and the way our brains are wired," he added.

Creative people see something extraordinary in him that we can turn it into something real.

I was born into a working class family and my dad died when I was five months old. I relate to him very well. I know what its like to have that.

Hes confused Ive been there. Hes got a creative side.

Balotelli has netted eight times in 14 games so far this season, but has frequently hit the headlines for his behaviour off the pitch. The latest report involving the Italian claimed he arrived at John Rylands Library on Deansgate and stunned staff by paying everyone's fines.

Other reports have ranged from the striker driving around Manchester dressed as Santa handing out money over Christmas to setting off fireworks in his Cheshire mansion causing a reported 400,000 worth of damage.

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125. "Balotelli faces four-match ban for Parker head stamp"
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I'm usually in Mario's corner, but this one was bad. He should be punished accordingly.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/16693521.stm

  

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126. "How did he not get carded for this???"
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He converted the penalty kick after this?

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127. "wondering what type of girl "Rafella Ti Amo" is? (link + swipe)"
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/italy/2971511/Italian-model-plans-to-sell-virginity-for-1m-euros.html

Italian model plans to sell virginity for 1m euros

An Italian model who swears she has never had sex plans to sell her virginity for one million euros, or 792,000.

Raffella Fico: Her family insist that despite her good looks and sexy image, she remains a virgin

By Nick Squires in Perugia

9:17PM BST 16 Sep 2008

Showgirl and men's magazine model Raffella Fico, 20, told an Italian magazine: "I can't wait to see who's going to pull out the money to have me."

Miss Fico, who appeared in the Italian version of Big Brother earlier this year, said she would use the cash to buy a house in Rome and pay for acting classes.

"I don't know what it's like to have sex," she told the magazine, Chi, adding that if the man who bought her virginity was ugly then she would quickly get over it.

"If I don't like him I'll just have a glass of wine and forget about it," said the aspiring actress from Naples - hometown of screen siren Sophia Loren.

Her family insisted that despite her good looks and sexy image, she remained a virgin.

"She's never had a boyfriend. I swear on my mother's grave. She's a devout Catholic and prays to Padre Pio every night," her brother told the magazine.

She is the not the first woman to auction her virginity for a large sum. An 18-year-old US student in San Diego, Natalie Dylan, recently told the Howard Stern show she would have sex for the first time for $1 million to pay her college fees.

In 2005 a Peruvian model, also 18, put herself up for sale to help pay her family's medical bills but ended up having second thoughts and turning down $1.5 million.

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128. "great BBC interview with (blech) Noel Gallager (link)"
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/17288648

this guy is beyond fascinating, easily the most compelling athlete in sports today.

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129. "just about to post this"
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130. "So he walked in on Inter's Stramaccioni press conference (video)"
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The introduction of Stramaccioni as the caretaker manager, Mario decides to just interrupt it to shake hands and wish him well.

wtf


http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/video/2012/mar/27/mario-balotelli-press-conference-video-internazionale

  

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131. "I saw that and was rolling...he came up in their youth academy"
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132. "WOW"
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so just to be clear -- that's not even his team right?

http://card.mygamercard.net/lastgame/rjcc.png

www.engadgethd.com - the other stuff i'm looking at

  

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133. "His old team. His team is in England. This team is in Italy."
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136. "like, what the fuck is he doing in Milan in the middle of a week? "
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shouldn't he be at training?

  

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138. "dude has cash & there for less than 24hrs. milan to manchester=not far"
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he's also a dumbass.

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134. "i just got this in the mail"
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http://skreened.com/legalizesnoods/why-always-me

  

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137. "Balotelli had affair with Rooney's prostitute says...Balotelli's agent"
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http://www.metro.co.uk/sport/oddballs/895315-mario-balotelli-admits-fling-with-wayne-rooneys-call-girl-jenny-thompson

Mario Balotelli admits fling with Wayne Rooney's call girl Jenny Thompson
Mario Balotelli had a brief involvement with a prostitute who had a threesome with Wayne Rooney, his agent has revealed.

Bad boy: Balotelli arrives for training with Raffaella Fico (picture: Eamonn and James Clarke)
The Manchester City striker has come clean over the fling with escort Jennifer Thompson after she allegedly began talks to sell her story to the press.
His agent Mino Raiola said the affair came after Balotelli, 21, was pursued by Ms Thompson, 23.
Mr Raiola said in a statement confirming the tryst: Mario is a young and impulsive football player and as such he is an easy target for tabloids looking for stories and people seeking to benefit from being associated with him.

Story seller: Jennifer Thompson (Picture: WENN.com)
Lately I feel that the chase has become more purposeful and women are targeting Mario, looking to make money from him directly or by selling stories to newspapers that relate to situations which they have intentionally pursued. It now seems that one of these women has succeeded and the newspapers have their story.
The agent added Balotelli was becoming aware of the modern practices operated by some newspapers and was determined to avoid certain types of people.
Ms Thompson, meanwhile, contacted Max Cliffords PR company yesterday as talks over the sale of her latest story were ongoing.
She has been pursued by the tabloids over an alleged friendship with Balotelli and asked us to represent her, Mr Clifford said.
We represented her some time ago when she was linked to Wayne Rooney.
Balotelli is in a long-term relationship with Italian model Raffaella Fico.
In February he celebrated a goal by revealing a T-shirt emblazoned with Raffaella I love you in Italian.
Ms Thompson was working as an escort when she had an encounter with Rooney before Englands World Cup campaign in 2010 and while his wife, Coleen, was pregnant.


  

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139. "Another Car runs into his; He runs UP into Rooney's sidepiece"
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http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2012/soccer/04/05/balotelli.crash.ap/index.html?sct=sc_t2_a12


Man City's Balotelli escapes unhurt from car crash

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MANCHESTER, England (AP) -- Manchester City striker Mario Balotelli escaped unhurt after being involved in a car crash on Thursday.

Police said officers responded to reports of a collision between two cars shortly after 3:15 p.m. in Manchester city center.

City said no one was injured in the incident and that Balotelli, who was driving a Bentley, was not at fault.

The 21-year-old Italy international has rarely been out of the headlines since arriving in England in 2010 from misdemeanors on and off the pitch.

Balotelli this week admitted to an affair with a woman who Manchester United striker Wayne Rooney repeatedly slept with while his wife was pregnant. Jennifer Thompson was working as an escort when she and another call girl were linked with Rooney in 2010.

"Mario is a young and impulsive football player and as such he is an easy target for tabloids looking for stories and people seeking to benefit from being associated with him,'' Balotelli's agent Mino Raiola said in a statement. "Lately I feel that the chase has become more purposeful and women, in particular, are targeting Mario looking to make money from him directly or by selling stories to newspapers that relate to situations which they have intentionally pursued.

"It now seems that one of these women has succeeded and the newspapers have their story. In this regard, we therefore wish to confirm that Mario has had a brief involvement with Miss Jennifer Thompson, a well-known figure amongst tabloid readers in England.''

Raiola said Balotelli will "deal with any consequences his actions bring.''

"Mario prefers to admit what has happened, has refused any means on offer to try to keep the matter silent,'' he said.

City manager Roberto Mancini complained on Thursday that Balotelli's conduct was blown out of all proportion.

"There are some people who think bad things against other people, like Mario,'' Mancini said. "Every time Mario does something, (it) is like a war.

"There are other people on and off the pitch that do worse than Mario and no one says anything because maybe they play for an important team or are not like Mario.''

Mancini does not blame the media, stressing it was "his fault because if he wants he can play and stay at home.''

Balotelli frustrated Mancini with his performance in last weekend's English Premier League match against Sunderland, despite scoring twice in the 3-3 draw.

Mancini said he considered substituting Balotelli after just five minutes. Balotelli later got involved in an argument with teammate Aleksandar Kolarov over who should take a free kick.

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Read more: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2012/soccer/04/05/balotelli.crash.ap/index.html#ixzz1rMHJBhVH

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140. "why always him?"
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http://gif.mocksession.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/BALOTELLI-STUDS-UP.gif

and that was the first of about four red card-worthy fouls in today's game too

mario, chairman mou didn't want you when you were both with inter- too late to start trying to impress him with your leg-breaking abilities now!

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141. "YOLO."
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142. "he's becoming less endearing now that he's scything at players"
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left and right.
its kinda ridiculous how many dangerous tackles that he makes.

22 yellows and 4 reds in 2 years? even scholes would blush.

hell of a player, but damn.
the sideshow has become a bigger deal than his abilities.

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144. "And he's done at Citeh (swipe)"
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2012/apr/08/mario-balotelli-manchester-city-mancini

Mario Balotelli may have played last Manchester City game Mancini
Balotelli sent off against Arsenal and facing long suspension
'I'm very sorry for him because he continues to lose his talent'
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guardian.co.uk, Sunday 8 April 2012 15.45 EDT


Roberto Mancini suggested on Sunday night that Mario Balotelli has played his last game for Manchester City after their 10 defeat at Arsenal left his side eight points from the top of the Premier League and effectively curtailed the club's pursuit of a first league title in 44 years.

Balotelli was dismissed after receiving a second card yellow in stoppage time to incur a three-match suspension, having previously been sanctioned this season for a red card at Liverpool and a stamp on Tottenham Hotspur's Scott Parker that prompted a retrospective ban. Yet City are resigned to losing the 21-year-old for at least three further matches after a lunge high into Alex Song's shin apparently went unnoticed by the referee, Martin Atkinson.

The Football Association will await the referee's report to see whether mention is made of that first-half incident no foul was awarded though, with six games still to play, Mancini will not call again upon a player who has increasingly become a liability. "Mario should have been sent off after 20 minutes," said the City manager. "I've finished my words for him. I've finished. I love him as a guy, as a player. I know him. He's not a bad guy and is a fantastic player. But, at this moment, I'm very sorry for him because he continues to lose his talent, his quality.

"I hope, for him, he can understand that he's in a bad way for his future. And he can change his behaviour in the future. But I'm finished. We have six games left and he will not play. It's not sure he'll because he could get a three- or four-game ban. Now, I need to be sure that I have always 11 players on the pitch. With Mario, it's always a big risk. Every time we risk one being sent off, even if he can also score in the last minute."

Mancini admitted that Jos Mourinho's assessment of the striker as "unmanageable" may prove prophetic, with team-mates visibly frustrated as Balotelli's second foul on Bacary Sagna prompted the late red. City were quick to distance themselves from suggestions that there had been a physical confrontation between players in the dressing room after the game, but when asked whether he would now seek to sell a player who has scored 17 times this season, Mancini said: "Probably." He was reportedly more explicit on Italian television, saying: "We will sell him."

"I am disappointed in him," added Mancini. "He is young and he continues to make a lot of mistakes. I have punished him during the season it's totally false that I have different behaviour with Mario than the other players and he still needs to change his behaviour if he wants to improve. I've seen players with huge talent finish in two or three years because they do not change. I hope, for him, he will."

City's title challenge effectively fizzled out in defeat in front of the chairman, Khaldoon al-Mubarak, with Mancini's side having now mustered only one win in six away games. Yet the Italian insisted he remains the man to bring the title back to the club. "When I arrived, City were eighth," he said. "After six months, we were fighting for a Champions League place. Last year we were close to second and won the FA Cup and, today, we have 15 points more than this time last year.

"When you start a project it's important you improve, and we have. But we need more experience and to change something. We've only worked here for two years. Now the title is more difficult, but we have 18 points to play for and a derby at home. United have had an incredible run in the last two months. But, in football, it can change. Ten days ago we were one point behind. Today it's eight points. United have more experience than us, so probably it's difficult, but until it's impossible, we keep going."

Arsne Wenger, whose side have returned to third place, conceded that Manchester United are now likely to retain their title. "In France we say that when a horse smells its stable it's difficult to stop him," said the Arsenal manager. "It's not completely over but, eight points behind with six games to go, they can smell that stable."

  

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145. "mancini says mario is done at city"
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word is bond, son.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2012/apr/08/mario-balotelli-manchester-city-mancini

Roberto Mancini suggested on Sunday night that Mario Balotelli has played his last game for Manchester City after their 10 defeat at Arsenal left his side eight points from the top of the Premier League and effectively curtailed the club's pursuit of a first league title in 44 years.

Balotelli was dismissed after receiving a second card yellow in stoppage time to incur a three-match suspension, having previously been sanctioned this season for a red card at Liverpool and a stamp on Tottenham Hotspur's Scott Parker that prompted a retrospective ban. Yet City are resigned to losing the 21-year-old for at least three further matches after a lunge high into Alex Song's shin apparently went unnoticed by the referee, Martin Atkinson.

The Football Association will await the referee's report to see whether mention is made of that first-half incident no foul was awarded though, with six games still to play, Mancini will not call again upon a player who has increasingly become a liability. "Mario should have been sent off after 20 minutes," said the City manager. "I've finished my words for him. I've finished. I love him as a guy, as a player. I know him. He's not a bad guy and is a fantastic player. But, at this moment, I'm very sorry for him because he continues to lose his talent, his quality.

"I hope, for him, he can understand that he's in a bad way for his future. And he can change his behaviour in the future. But I'm finished. We have six games left and he will not play. It's not sure he'll because he could get a three- or four-game ban. Now, I need to be sure that I have always 11 players on the pitch. With Mario, it's always a big risk. Every time we risk one being sent off, even if he can also score in the last minute."

Mancini admitted that Jos Mourinho's assessment of the striker as "unmanageable" may prove prophetic, with team-mates visibly frustrated as Balotelli's second foul on Bacary Sagna prompted the late red. City were quick to distance themselves from suggestions that there had been a physical confrontation between players in the dressing room after the game, but when asked whether he would now seek to sell a player who has scored 17 times this season, Mancini said: "Probably." He was reportedly more explicit on Italian television, saying: "We will sell him."

"I am disappointed in him," added Mancini. "He is young and he continues to make a lot of mistakes. I have punished him during the season it's totally false that I have different behaviour with Mario than the other players and he still needs to change his behaviour if he wants to improve. I've seen players with huge talent finish in two or three years because they do not change. I hope, for him, he will."

City's title challenge effectively fizzled out in defeat in front of the chairman, Khaldoon al-Mubarak, with Mancini's side having now mustered only one win in six away games. Yet the Italian insisted he remains the man to bring the title back to the club. "When I arrived, City were eighth," he said. "After six months, we were fighting for a Champions League place. Last year we were close to second and won the FA Cup and, today, we have 15 points more than this time last year.

"When you start a project it's important you improve, and we have. But we need more experience and to change something. We've only worked here for two years. Now the title is more difficult, but we have 18 points to play for and a derby at home. United have had an incredible run in the last two months. But, in football, it can change. Ten days ago we were one point behind. Today it's eight points. United have more experience than us, so probably it's difficult, but until it's impossible, we keep going."

Arsne Wenger, whose side have returned to third place, conceded that Manchester United are now likely to retain their title. "In France we say that when a horse smells its stable it's difficult to stop him," said the Arsenal manager. "It's not completely over but, eight points behind with six games to go, they can smell that stable."

  

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146. "Next stop, MLS?"
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147. "nobody in their right mind would sign him"
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maybe the CSL

  

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148. "Going out on a limb, I say Malaga"
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He's in a very Tevez-like situation, only for a cheaper price: who in their right mind would sign him and pay his wage demands?

Answer: Malaga. Much like city, they are oil-rich but have less ambition to be able to lure players people actually want.

  

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149. "i think Milan would have him, especially since he'll be cheap."
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hell if he hadnt played for City I wouldnt mind seeing SAF take a flyer on him.
he just needs a boot up his ass (or maybe his forehead lol) and a stable environment to grow up in.
he never really had a chance w/ someone who's so shit at man management like Mancini.

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150. "no chance in hell SAF would want him"
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if so, Utd would've kept somebody like Ravel Morrison

  

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151. "ravel's a thug off the field, he's stuck in the wrong crowd."
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and he demanded first team football far too soon for someone who has proven nothing. that's why we let him go.
balotelli is none of these things.

obv he isnt on SAF radar though. we couldnt get him if we tried.

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152. "Mario = clutch. Key role in a lot of hardware for his age."
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153. "Did he just get inserted back into the lineup for this last match?!?!?"
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I thought he was done for the season...

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154. "substitute, i believe"
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and, it's really the best role for him so he can't play himself out of the game or affect it irrevocably.

problem is, he's too damn talented to be a super sub, but it seems to suit his attention span.

  

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157. "Played pretty well starting against United in the 6-1, MOTM"
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158. "this could go tit for tat "
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in examples of a great game vs infuriating shitheadedness.

he is an undeniable talent, but his trainwreck down the stretch nearly cost city the title and it could be argued his absence put them back on track.

  

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155. "he also got called up for Italy's Euro squad today."
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a bit of a surprise, given that he was left out of the natl. team for his bad behavior earlier in the year

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156. "They shld build their team around him and Cassano."
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Actually Prandelli said this is what he would do like a year ago, but since then Cassano had his heart problem and Mario's continued getting in controversial situation (despite a great season overall).

  

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159. "*fistpump* Mario plans to "kill" any racist fans at Euros"
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2012/may/30/euro-2012-mario-balotelli-italy

Euro 2012: Mario Balotelli threatens to 'kill' banana-throwing fans

I will not accept racism at all, says Italy striker
Balotelli has been a past target, at home and abroad

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The Italy and Manchester City striker Mario Balotelli has threatened to kill anyone who throws a banana at him in the street or on the pitch during the Euro 2012 finals in Poland and Ukraine.

His comments come a day after Sol Campbell, speaking on Panorama, told England fans not to travel to the competition because they could "end up coming back in a coffin".

Balotelli, who is preparing with the Italian team for their Group C fixtures, said: "I will not accept racism at all. It's unacceptable. If someone throws a banana at me in the street, I will go to jail, because I will kill them."

The 21-year-old is not a stranger to racism and was once pelted with bananas in a Rome bar before the European Under-21 Championships in June 2009. "It was lucky that the police arrived quickly because, I swear, I would have beaten them. I would have really destroyed them. I hope it never happens again." He has been the victim of racist abuse on several occasions most recently in February when Porto were fined over the behaviour of their supporters in a Europa League tie against City.

"Let's see what happens at the Euros," he added. "I hope it will pass without a problem."

The Italian also described himself as a genius, saying: "I think I am a genius but not a rebel. I have my life, my world, I do what I want, without annoying anyone. I believe I am more intelligent than the average person. The talent God gave me is beautiful and wonderful but it is difficult because you are always facing other people keen to judge you."

  

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160. "I was watching Italy-Spain highlights and was like who is the black..."
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guy?

lol

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161. "What a goal. An incredible player and a WINNER, I get a W for this one"
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162. "defender didn't know what was happening until it was in the net...LOL"
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163. "indeed. VIDEO"
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sn_yG5S_3YQ

  

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164. "BALOTELLI IS GOD"
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165. "He is a WINNER, he always plays his best in the biggest matches."
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166. "in other words THE ANTI-MARIO GOMEZ"
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174. "and his best is better than everyone except Messi at this point"
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168. "G O D"
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167. "Just scored two goals to advance Italy in the Euro's..."
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He good, they ain't worried about his antics as long as he keeps
scoring and winning.

  

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169. "um i'm finna call a predominant islamic asiatic hebrew huddle"
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Basa

Truth

Bin

SPM

Stah

Other members of the council-

Why we ain't been supporting this cat

He might have the most mad making potential
of any black athlete ANYWHERE


Cmon


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170. "lol, post #160, I just found out who he was a few weeks ago but..."
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now I'm fully on the bandwagon with both feet, I'm subscribed to his FB page and everything...

https://www.facebook.com/jania.bell#!/pages/Mario-Balotelli/326301630738343

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171. "this movement needs to be moved"
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http://card.mygamercard.net/lastgame/rjcc.png

www.engadgethd.com - the other stuff i'm looking at

  

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173. "This movement BEEN movin...sit yo azz down bus is moving"
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175. "Just google him and revel in the insanity... no one is like him"
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Italians want to hate him, but look what he's done for their squad.


Manchester City folks wanted him gone, but he brought them a Premier league title.


He's the soccer reincarnation of Hannibal...only he's marching with the Romans and taking everyone else's scalps...

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178. "your hyperbole on all fronts is not helping the cause"
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Love him for what he is, not what you imagine him to be. He brought Man City the title? Only Messi is better? C'mon fam.

  

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179. "o you blak? "
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>Love him for what he is, not what you imagine him to be. He
>brought Man City the title? Only Messi is better? C'mon fam.

oh word?

u of afrikan descent?

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186. "all i'm sayin' is"
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Super Mario scored two amazing goals in the semifinal of the European Championship. That alone is worthy of god status. No need to pump up the bio with falsehoods

  

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193. "If he's ever had anything that looks like a banana thrown at him...."
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>Super Mario scored two amazing goals in the semifinal of the
>European Championship. That alone is worthy of god status. No
>need to pump up the bio with falsehoods

.....ever, as in, once, that justifies a career worth
of being angry and militant.


And so Ima be angry and militant for him


So fall back with that shit


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196. "i'm in full support of the movement"
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i'm not in full support of falsehoods

  

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199. "No way Man City wins without him this year...you know it"
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He was one of the main reasons they jumped out to a lead in the league. Aguero didn't win this shit by himself...and remember earlier when folks were clowning me regarding goal difference???? I didn't gloat, but those tallies they got early in the season, of which he was a major part, made the difference...

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200. "he was a contributing part"
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to say he "brought them the title" is false, unless he's also called Yaya Toure. Did he play a bigger part to their title than Eden Dzeko, who both scored and created more goals than Mario? Would you say Eden Dzeko "brought Manchester City the title? Of course not.

In fact, you could argue that Mario had a hand in almost costing City the title with his performance at the Emirates.

All that said... I'm still a huge Mario fan and do believe he has the potential to be the best striker in the world. Nothing to even argue about. But it's almost akin to saying Jeremy Lin was the best PG in the NBA last season. You can appreciate the awesomeness that actually exists without stretching it into something it isn't.

  

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176. "Y'all didn't support him bc y'all didn't know who he was lol"
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177. "we got a regular Sherlock Holmes up in this bitch"
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183. "Dang, you're extra ornery today"
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180. "eh yo this some solidarity shit god back up with that "
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you usually a rill nigga i ont know what happened

you stayed in unit 1 prolly

unit 2 (davidson) over here nigga

go bears

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182. "Lol. Don't get me wrong, I'm all for y'all getting in w the movement"
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I'm not that dude at amoeba records who gives people the stink-eye when they bring up foster the people because he's been scrounging around for their records and selling them goji and kale shakes for years.

You just sounded a bit quizzical to what seemed like an obvious answer. I know you ain't this sensitive fam lol.

Edit: Unit 2, Davidson over here as well mang.

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181. "have you read his full bio? dude is the face of post-racial Europe"
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son of an immigrant Ghanian mother, if I'm not mistaken, taken by the state under child welfare, given to an Italian family to raise, succeeds on athletic merit, yet still faces a barrage of hate from his own country because he's not "Italian," yet all the hate in the world can't stop him because he produces the goods.

it's like if OKP held a conference to design the perfect soccer player, Balotelli is who the committee would produce. I try to put every sports hating liberal I know up on him, because they can NEVER resist his charms.

and yeah, tap into some Euro news sources -- folks get MAAAAAAAD over Balotelli

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185. ""barrage of hate" from italy is a little strong"
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in any event, he is legend after today. period.

  

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187. "how much race hate is too much race hate?"
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cuz when Italian newspapers still feel comfortable publishing cartoons of Mario Balotelli on top of the Empire State a la King Kong as recently as YESTERDAY, I feel comfortable saying there's a "barrage" of hate in Italy:

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2012/jun/27/gazzetta-cartoon-mario-balotelli-king-kong?newsfeed=true

Anti-racism campaigners have attacked a cartoon in an Italian newspaper depicting Manchester City's Italy striker Mario Balotelli as King Kong.

The drawing published by Gazzetta dello Sport on the day of Italy's Euro 2012 meeting with England shows Balotelli on top of Big Ben in a reference to King Kong on New York's Empire State Building. It led to a number of complaints from readers prompting the newspaper to apologise.

A spokesman for the anti-discrimination group Kick It Out said: "Mario's very presence in the Italian team is symbolic on so many levels. The Italian media ought to champion this individual rather than singling him out as a scapegoat and somehow inferior to his international team-mates."

A statement from Gazzetta read: "Some of our readers have protested regarding Marini's cartoon.

"Balotelli was depicted as King Kong. We can honestly say it was not among the best products of our talented cartoonist. At this time, a measure of prudence and good taste are necessary because everything, absolutely everything, can be misinterpreted.

"The newspaper is for those who read it and hence, if certain readers found the cartoon offensive, we apologise. But those who accuse Gazzetta (and poor Marini) of racism are going overboard.

"This newspaper has fought any form of racism in every stadium and has condemned the boos directed at Balotelli as an unacceptable form of incivility."

Balotelli, who has been a reported target of racist chants at Euro 2012, said at the start of the tournament in Poland and Ukraine that if he heard himself being racially abused he would consider walking off the pitch.

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189. "that isn't anti-mario as a player, tho"
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racist as all fuck, but it was saying mario just beat england for them, which is generally a positive message about the black player who you think isn't quite human is also a sports hero of a player for your country.

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190. "RE: that isn't anti-mario as a player, tho"
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What r u talking about????....lol

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191. "you're right, just anti-Mario as a human being -- my bad!"
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197. "LeBron's was worse"
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Begs the question. Is Mario hated more in Italy than LeBron is in the USA?

  

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188. "RE: &quot;barrage of hate&quot; from italy is a little strong"
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Tell that to the people yelling monkey chants at him when he was coming up in Italy...Or how about the Italian fans who claimed he wasn't a "true" Italian...And then he's being drawn as a monkey...By a newspaper in Italy just yesterday?

There certainly was a barrage of hate for that dude growing up...

There's a reason why he is always on edge....

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194. "You ever had a banana thrown at you or been drawn as a monkey? "
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oh, ok.

So shut the fuck up then.

Seriously.

Of course he's a god TODAY because that is
how white people treat black people

We can be immortalized for doing immortal shit

Without that, we get monkey chants and bananas
and its all love



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195. "Uh YOU just realized he's alive TODAY too."
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210. "Umm what your mouth and check your manners, sissy"
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don't forget who talking to here, B

I'm the don corleone of this shit

And seriously, I'm not an international
soccer fan like that

I like it, but don't know it like THAT

So of course its gonna take me some time




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212. "lol"
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214. "The don corleone of not knowing what you're talking tough about? LOL"
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198. "without getting too personal here"
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i have been subjected to lots of racism as an athlete coming up. definitely. taunts, physical violence, etc.

also, do me a favor. control-f "donknutts" in this thread. Been lovin' Mario since Totti tried to kick him off the pitch. Of course you don't know what I'm talking about. But you'll learn.

  

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209. "Eh yo you wanna get some gat shit? "
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On some who got the biggest mac shit?

On some who got the flyest glock shit?

On some 2Pac shit?



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205. "lol, best believe that a whole legion of spaghetti-eating mf's are..."
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rolling over in their graves at the fact that a "moulie" is even suiting up for team Italia let alone leading them to victory.

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213. "best believe a lot of italians were cursing MAD as shit when he "
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tore off his shirt after that goal and displayed so much BLACKNESS

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215. "lol, you know they were calling him every name in the book!"
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201. "I'm on board with Super Mario. Might have become my favorite athlete..."
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...in the world over the last few weeks.

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172. "BEAST"
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Cause I'm doing better now, don't mean I never lost shit/ I was married to a state of mind and I divorced it -- Black Thought

  

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184. "Come back to Inter, son"
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203. "If he comes back to Milan, it will be wearing this: "
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http://images.quickblogcast.com/92912-88346/InterforwardMarioBalotelliacceptingtheACMilanJerseybyValerioStafellifromStriscialaNotiziagivingBalotellitheTapirodOroonMondayMarch222010.jpg?a=59

  

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192. "Super Mario"
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202. "You want to talk about mad-making/racism? Another Italian headline..."
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http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Football/Pix/pictures/2012/6/29/1340957573723/Mario-Balotelli-in-Tuttos-008.jpg


http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2012/jun/29/euro-2012-newspaper-mario-balotelli-slur



An Italian sports newspaper has defended its decision to print a headline featuring a pun on Mario Balotelli's skin colour after it came under fire from an anti-racism group.

Over a photo of Balotelli celebrating his second goal for Italy against Germany in the European Championship semi-final on Thursday night, the Turin daily Tuttosport ran the headline "Li Abbiamo Fatti Neri", which literally means "We have made them black".

The new row comes days after another Italian sports daily, La Gazzetta dello Sport, apologised for running a cartoon featuring Balotelli as King Kong. Balotelli, the first black Italian to make a major impression at national team level, suffered racist abuse during his time playing in Italy before moving to Manchester City.

The phrase used by Tuttosport in its headline is a slang expression meaning to bruise, literally to make someone black and blue. Gianni De Pace, the assistant editor, said it also referred to Balotelli's skin colour, but defended the headline. "It was a reference to him being black, but it is just a pun," he said. "It was also because when he took his shirt off he looked like a boxer who bruises opponents.

"There are three sporting newspapers in Italy and we have to make an impression with language which has an impact, but no one in Italy will have seen this as racist," he said.

De Pace said Tuttosport was not a racist publication. "When Juventus fans abused Balotelli we were very tough on them. We are proud to have Balotelli as an ambassador of multi-ethnicity in Italy."

But one anti-racism campaigner accused the paper of fuelling racism with its headline. "It is highly offensive, you cannot brush this off as a pun," said Robert Elliott, who works with Occhio Ai Media, an Italian organisation which monitors racism in the Italian press. "Drawing attention to the colour of Balotelli's skin dehumanises him and labels him as a black player before all else, even when he is proudly playing for Italy."

  

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204. "Balo itw after the game"
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"the best part of the evening was when I saw my mom, who came here despite her age, in the stands after the game. The two goals are for her! Against Spain, my dad will be there too and I hope I can do even better, like score a quadruple. Some criticized my joy and the fact that I took off my jersey? That's because they saw my muscles and they're jealous"


so awesome

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206. "what this post is really about:"
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>"the best part of the evening was when I saw my mom, who came
>here despite her age, in the stands after the game. The two
>goals are for her! Against Spain, my dad will be there too and
>I hope I can do even better, like score a quadruple. Some
>criticized my joy and the fact that I took off my jersey?
>That's because they saw my muscles and they're jealous"
>
>
>so awesome


fuck what it's become in the last 24 hours.

  

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207. "Great quote..and the last line puts it on a whole other level "
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Saw him after the game going to his mom in the stands...incredible incredible
moment.

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"I didnt finish a damn thing...matter of fact I jerked off after she left."
-Kobe speaking to investigators

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217. "his white mom or his black mom?"
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218. "I don't think he speaks to his biological parents"
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not sure about the whole story but it had something to do w/ them coming out of the woodworks when he became famous

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219. "Damn, his biological sister is serious buisness! *link*"
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http://74.54.19.227/news/168/16830387.full.jpg

http://socqer.com/static_media/uploaded_images/KXFHJ_Balotelli-Sister-Abigail-Barwuan.jpeg

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211. "LOL"
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208. "http://i.imgur.com/tUBzB.gif"
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216. "RE: The wildest child: 'SUPER' Mario Balotelli"
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come on , mario!

just take it to the next level ...you're great!....but lose the conceit!





  

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220. "http://i.imgur.com/gjjG3.png"
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http://i.imgur.com/gjjG3.png

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221. "The Human Enigma: loves Drake, also UFC (vid)"
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Drake = LOVE.
UFC = WANT.
new MCFC jersey = eh.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKlQ4Gw9KLg

  

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222. "Eye surgery. "
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http://msn.foxsports.com/foxsoccer/premierleague/story/mario-balotelli-undergoes-successful-eye-surgery-manchester-city-striker-italy-090512

The 22-year-old underwent the minor operation, a day earlier than expected so as to avoid the paparazzi, after recently suffering from conjunctivitis associated with wearing contact lenses.

Balotelli's surgeon suggested he could return "in around 10 days'' meaning he would be touch-and-go to be back in time for City's trip to the Britannia Stadium on September 15.

"He had a few problems with contact lenses some years ago,'' surgeon Emanuele Scuri reportedly told Sky Sport Italia.

"We waited for the defect to stabilise over the last four years and this was the right time to have the operation. His eyes did not tolerate the contact lenses and had problems at the start of the season.

"I think in around 10 days he should be ready to play again. Already this morning he asked if he could drive and I suggested he should get a lift until Thursday.

"We brought the operation forward by a day to avoid paparazzi. This surgery will enable Balotelli to see very well."

City waited until the international break to book Balotelli in for the procedure, which has ruled him out of Italy's World Cup qualifiers against Bulgaria and Malta.

Should Balotelli fail to return in time for the Stoke match he could be available when City open their Champions League campaign against Real Madrid three days later.

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223. "Balotelli enters as sub 81'"
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Balotelli embarrasses Dortmund keeper with trademark stutter-step penalty 90'

Balotelli talks trash to keeper after retrieving ball

  

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224. "lol you cant troll a troll."
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<--- Big Baller World Order

  

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225. "http://timethemoment.files.wordpress.com/2012/10/20121112_600.jpg?w=255&..."
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Guess who's on the cover of TIME magazine?

http://timethemoment.files.wordpress.com/2012/10/20121112_600.jpg?w=255&h=340

Albeit the international version, but still...

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226. "huh? kinda random timing"
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MLB: Mets / Soccer: PSG
NCAA BB: Arizona / NCAA FB: Michigan
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227. "Mario joins Twitter, Rough Riders, Telly Tubbies"
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http://metro.co.uk/2012/12/01/mario-balotelli-marks-arrival-on-twitter-with-picture-of-camouflage-onesie-3078566/

  

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LOL!

dude is so flamboyant how is this humanly possible?

and, FTR, i'm #TEAMMARIO.

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229. "balo is the spirit of YOLO in human form."
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231. "Mancini gets into it with Balotelli"
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2013/jan/03/mario-balotelli-roberto-mancini-confrontation

  

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232. "Bout to get that 'home' cooking again"
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2013/jan/28/mario-balotelli-milan-loan-manchester-city



Mario Balotelli bound for Manchester City exit as Juventus and Milan close in

Italian could complete permanent move in summer
David Platt says he has heard nothing about a deal

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Mario Balotelli appears to have played his last game for Manchester City. Photograph: Paul Currie/Action Images

Manchester City are in talks with Milan and Juventus over the transfer of Mario Balotelli and are exploring the option of loaning the striker out until the summer ahead of a permanent move.

The champions want around 23m (19.75m) for the 22-year-old and it is understood that Milan have made an initial offer close to 20m. But last night Juventus also entered the bidding with City hoping their interest would help push up the price. The player is keen to return to his homeland and is willing to take what represents a small pay cut regarding the terms on offer, which are 5m a year tax-free, plus a sizeable signing-on bonus.

It is understood that City do not expect any resolution before Tuesday night's game with Queens Park Rangers at Loftus Road but a deal could be done before Thursday's transfer deadline. Mino Raiola, Balotelli's agent, is in Manchester to try and seal an agreement, having already failed earlier this month to persuade Ferran Soriano, City's chief executive, to allow the striker to move on a temporary basis to San Siro until the end of the season.

City are thought to favour a permanent transfer in the current window but a loan deal remains a possibility. Another potential stumbling block is Milan's desire to pay any fee in six instalments. City, conscious of Uefa's financial fair play regulations, may want a lump sum that can be reinvested swiftly. However, there is hope in both Milan and Turin that, given Balotelli's chequered time at City plus the player's desire to move, a deal can be completed before the window closes.

Adriano Galliani, Milan's vice-president, has been in consultation with Raiola regarding the best way to proceed. Two years ago Raiola was pivotal in the deal that took Zlatan Ibrahimovic, another of his players, from Barcelona to Milan.

If Balotelli were to leave, City would have only three recognised strikers Carlos Tevez, Sergio Agero and Edin Dzeko. Whether the club would try to replace Balotelli before Thursday's deadline is moot. It is thought, though, that City plan to play a 4-3-3 formation next season, a system that utilises only one centre-forward, meaning that three strikers for one position would be enough.

Asked on Monday about Balotelli's future, David Platt, City's assistant manager, chose his words carefully. "I haven't heard anything," he said. "I saw that speculation yesterday. It's a shame Robbie's not here. He might know more than me but he is still a Manchester City player. I don't think anything is going to happen."

He also claimed that Balotelli is in contention for Tuesday evening's match following illness. "Mario was back on the training pitch yesterday ," Platt said. "He was in the squad for the weekend , it was only a 24-hour virus he had so he'll be up for selection."

In reality Balotelli may have played his last game for the club. Last week it emerged that his Cheshire home, which the Italian rents, has been on the market since 11 January, a sign that he was conscious of the need to keep his options open before any potential move away from City. Reports on Monday suggested that Balotelli had a farewell party for friends in Manchester on Sunday night.

Balotelli's off-field misdemeanours during his time at City have included fireworks going off in the bathroom of his home, before last season's derby at Old Trafford, in which he scored twice in a 6-1 rout of Manchester United.

This season he has started only seven times in the Premier League, scoring once in a 2-0 win at Wigan in November and last month he came close to taking City to a tribunal after refusing to accept a two-week fine for the ill-discipline that meant he missed 11 games due to suspension last term.

The striker called off the tribunal only at the 11th hour and finally accepted the 340,000 fine but a fortnight later he was pictured grappling with Mancini on the training ground after the manager tried to censure him for a dangerous tackle on Scott Sinclair. This last episode finally convinced Mancini, who had become isolated in his support of Balotelli, that the striker's future lies elsewhere.

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233. "Man U fan pees on the Bentley"
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http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/soccer-dirty-tackle/man-united-fan-urinated-mario-balotelli-camouflage-bentley-040822869--sow.html

Mario Balotelli had to know that having his Bentley customized with a camouflage paint scheme would actually make it stand out even more than a Bentley already would, but I doubt he anticipated that it would attract public urinators. On Sunday night, as Balotelli dined in Manchester at an Indian restaurant with friends while rumors swirled of an impending transfer to Milan, a group of Man United fans found his distinctive car (parked on the sidewalk, of course) and had their way with it. One man urinated on the door, while another pulled down his pants, got on top of the car and rubbed his bare backside on the rear window. According to The Sun a witness said that one of them sang Man United songs as they did it.

But within hours of the pictures spreading across Twitter on Monday, the urinator was identified, reported to the Greater Manchester Police, mocked for the size of his genitalia by thousands of people around the world and deleted his account in disgrace. So I don't think Mario got the worst end of this prank. Plus the inside of that car has probably experienced far worse than what happened to the outside of it on Sunday night.

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234. "so many LOLs"
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235. "Milan."
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This should be interesting

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236. "i can finally REALLY pull for this cat."
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237. "BOOM back at it in Milan"
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https://twitter.com/bbcsport/status/296743177703022592

BREAKING: Reports suggest police are using tear gas to disperse fans outside a restaurant where Mario Balotelli is meeting AC Milan chairman


http://card.mygamercard.net/lastgame/rjcc.png

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238. "So happy he's a Rossoneri"
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Between him, El Shaarawy, and Niang, we have three attackers with a lot of potential, two of whom have already shown a little bit. If Niang keeps progressing, I'm loving the possibilities.

Plus, with those three, Boateng and Robinho, Milan possesses some of the worst and most ridiculous hairstyles in Europe. Truly hideous, ridiculous, awesome shit.

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239. "Scores twice in his debut for Milan:"
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Mario Balotelli celebrates his late winning penalty for Milan against Udinese in typical style. Photograph: Matteo Bazzi/EPA

Mario Balotelli scored twice, including a highly controversial penalty three minutes into stoppage time, in a memorable Milan debut to give them a 2-1 win over Udinese on Sunday, three days after completing his move from Manchester City.

The maverick Italian, who moved to Milan for a reported 20m after two and a half turbulent years in Manchester, was included in the starting line-up only at the last minute after Giampaolo Pazzini pulled out during the warm-up.

But the 22-year-old opened his account after 25 minutes at San Siro, turning the ball in from close range after Stephan El Shaaraway's cross from the left was deflected to his feet.

He nearly added another two minutes later with a dipping shot which was turned over by the bar by the Udinese goalkeeper Daniele Padelli.

Giampiero Pinzi equalised for Udinese in the 55th minute and the home defence suddenly began to look vulnerable.

However, Balotelli went close in the 85th minute with a low free-kick which Padelli turned round a post. The match then ended in uproar when Thomas Heurtaux tackled El Shaaraway, who fell theatrically in the area and the referee pointed to the spot.

Balotelli calmly converted to lift Milan to fourth in the table, ahead of Internazionale on goal difference.

The furious Udinese players surrounded the referee to protest after the penalty decision and police came on to the field to protect the official after the final whistle.

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240. "And now he's called the n word by people in his own front office"
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This is unbelieveable.

http://soccernet.espn.go.com/news/story/_/id/1328650/milan-exec-uses-racist-slur-in-describing-balotelli?cc=5901

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241. "Has he told them, "Fuck you, pay me" yet? "
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242. "goddamn. he aint even stepped on the field yet"
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243. "sure did. scored two in his first game. "
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and taunted the fuck out of udinese after the 94' penalty.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2013/feb/03/mario-balotelli-milan-udinese-serie-a

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244. "and could of had more than two"
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246. "could've"
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245. "oh, those wacky berlusconis"
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god they would have made such excellent fascists

just born in the wrong era i guess

  

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252. "I hate that they own my team"
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It doesn't change how much I love the players and the colors, but it makes me cringe, hard, when I hear something like this. I hate that it is not enough to get those assholes out of there too.

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247. "Fined for beefing with police over parking at the airport:"
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Feb 7 (Reuters) - Mario Balotelli's troubles have followed him back to Italy after media reports on Thursday said the AC Milan striker was fined by police following a row over his parked car at a city airport.

The 22-year-old, who left Manchester City last month after two and a half years in England filled with bizarre tales on and off the field, parked his car in front of Linate arrivals and pretended to move it when police asked - only then to be sanctioned.

Balotelli, who scored twice on his Milan debut last weekend, cut a frustrated figure in Italy's 1-1 friendly draw in the Netherlands on Wednesday and booted a ball against an advertising hoarding.

Paolo Berlusconi, AC Milan's vice president and brother of owner Silvio, was lambasted in social media this week after calling Balotelli "the little black boy of the family". (Writing by Mark Meadows; Ediitng by Alison Wildey)

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248. "was it the camoflauged Bentley though?"
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249. "He probably bought another car after he landed in Italy"
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the Bentley is probably still double parked in front of Heathrow lol

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250. "parked in a tow-away zone... don't care, that car a throw-away holmes"
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251. "camoflauged ferrari!"
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253. "Inter Milan fined for fans abusing Mario:"
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They weren't even playing AC Milan! I guess they are getting warmed up for the Feb. 24th derby.....


Soccer-Inter fined for fans' racist chants about Balotelli
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Feb 12 (Reuters) - Inter Milan have been fined 15,000 euros ($20,100) after fans chanted racist slogans about their former striker Mario Balotelli during a Serie A match on Sunday.

Balotelli, who joined rivals AC Milan from Manchester City last month, was the target of abuse by Inter fans during their 3-1 home win over Chievo Verona.

Serie A said in a statement that Inter had been fined because their fans "directed insulting chants and expressions of racial discrimination towards the player of another team."

Balotelli, who joined Inter in 2007 before moving to City in 2010, had upset Inter fans during his time at the club by wearing an AC Milan shirt on a television programme.

Milan and Inter are due to meet in Serie A on Feb. 24 and Inter president Massimo Moratti said he hoped there would be no repeat of the abuse.

"I am very sorry," he told reporters when asked about Sunday's events. "I hope it doesn't happen in the derby." ($1 = 0.7474 euros) (Writing by Clare Fallon in London; Editing by Ed Osmond)

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254. "g:"
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http://bleacherreport.com/articles/1545531-mario-balotelli-reportedly-commissioned-sculpture-of-his-goal-pose?hpt=hp_c2

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256. "this post was a great idea, btw"
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257. "They don't like him in Italy....this seems excessive:"
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http://sports.yahoo.com/news/soccer-balotelli-banned-three-matches-insulting-official-154041283--sow.html




TURIN, Italy, April 9 (Reuters) - Maverick forward Mario Balotelli was given a three-match ban on Tuesday for insulting the fourth official at the end of AC Milan's 2-2 draw at Fiorentina at the weekend.

Balotelli was due to face an automatic one-match suspension for accumulating four yellow cards when he was needlessly booked for failing to retreat at a free kick.

But Serie A's disciplinary commissioner said in a statement he had added another two matches after Balotelli's angry altercation with the match official at the end of the game. It was not clear what had upset "Super Mario".

It was awful timing by Balotelli as third-placed Milan's next two games are against second-placed Napoli and leaders Juventus as they try to wrap up the third and final Champions League spot.

Balotelli had previously managed to stay out of trouble since his move from Manchester City in January.

But his problems began on Saturday as the team travelled by high-speed train to the game in Florence and he was caught smoking in the toilet by a ticket collector.

Milan officials were told and Balotelli was fined.

So far, his misdemeanours have paled in comparison to his antics at Manchester City which included rash tackles and a incident where he set fire to his house after letting off fireworks in his bathroom. (Reporting by Brian Homewood; Editing by Mark Meadows; brian.homewood@thomsonreuters.com; +41 79 917 1402; Reuters Messaging: brian.homewood)

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258. "TIME MAGAZINE one of the 100 most influential people in the WORLD"
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Not making this up. Only footballer on the list:

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/soccer-dirty-tackle/mario-balotelli-named-one-time-magazine-100-most-192625266--sow.html

Mario Balotelli has been named one of Time Magazine's 100 most influential people in the world for 2013. The list has previous included the likes of Lionel Messi and Didier Drogba, but 22-year-old Balotelli is the only footballer to be named this year and one of four athletes along with LeBron James, Olympic skier Lindsey Vonn and tennis player Li Na.

Chelsea legend and Watford manager Gianfranco Zola, who coached Balotelli for a bit of his time with Italy's U-21 team, wrote the blurb that accompanied Mario's inclusion in the "icons" section of the list. Zola says:

From afar, people may think hes a madman, but he isnt. Mario is a lovely guy, very humble and very funny. I can assure people he has always been a pleasure to deal with. He has returned to Italy from England as the main man with lots of attention. Now he has to ensure he keeps control and keeps focus. Mario loves the pressure, but to succeed, it is about finding balance.

The combination of Balotelli's developing brilliance on the pitch mixed with his innate ability to produce captivatingly odd moments (be it with a bib or fireworks in his bathroom) and the many strange myths dreamed up by the press have definitely made him one of the world's most scrutinized footballers. He's also been forced into the center of the fight for racial equality and subjected to vile abuse within the game since he was teenager. But to call him one of the most influential people in the world seems a bit speculative. Though there probably hasn't been a run on camouflage Bentleys since Balotelli started driving his, he does have a firm hold on the footballing world's attention. And as Zola alludes, it will be Balotelli's focus and control that determines what he does with it.

One person who isn't surprised about Balotelli's inclusion in the list is his eccentric agent, Mino Raiola. From Football Italia:

I am not remotely surprised, Mino Raiola told Sky Sport Italia. Time saw something in him that many are unable to see.

He can influence men, women, children. Mario can influence Italy in various different ways, starting from the issue of racism that can be fought.

He is a perfectly normal young man, but its clear there have been important responsibilities on his shoulders since he was 16 years old.

Balotelli will attend a presentation ceremony in New York on April 22. He previously appeared in Time Magazine for a cover story last year.

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260. "O wow. Glad to see him in there "
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261. "11 goals in 11 matches at AC Milan. Netted 2 yesterday:"
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Two games left and his squad is in position to qualify for the Champions League.

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/soccer/news/20130508/italy-roundup-mario-balotelli.ap/?sct=sc_t2_a11


MILAN (AP) -- Mario Balotelli scored twice to help AC Milan beat already-relegated Pescara 4-0 in Serie A on Wednesday and leave it on the verge of qualifying for next year's Champions League.

Milan remained four points clear of Fiorentina, which beat relegation-threatened Siena 1-0, in the fight for third spot and a place in the Champions League qualifying round. Napoli mathematically secured second place and an automatic entry into Europe's elite with a 3-0 victory over Bologna.

"There are two games left after today's win and we have to manage our advantage,'' Milan coach Massimiliano Allegri said. "We need three points, we have a good chance, but anything can happen in football so we need to remain focused to reach our goal.''

Balotelli scored from the spot in the ninth minute after Uros Cosic tripped Antonio Nocerino.

The Italy striker has never missed a penalty in his professional career and he fired into the bottom right corner for his 22nd from the spot.

Sulley Muntari doubled Milan's lead after half an hour, running unmarked into the area to volley in Robinho's cross.

Robinho also created Milan's third five minutes after halftime, snatching the ball after Luciano Zauri slipped and crossing in for Mathieu Flamini to score from close range.

Flamini has four goals in a month. The French midfielder had scored three in his previous four seasons at Milan.

Balotelli, who hit the crossbar in the opening two minutes, added a fourth shortly before the hour mark, controlling Flamini's pass before swiveling and firing in for his 11th goal in 11 games since joining Milan.

Napoli was seven points clear of Milan and, with two games remaining, can't be caught.

"It's the norm for Napoli to be back in the Champions League,'' Napoli president Aurelio De Laurentiis said. "I thank the fans, so many of them were here too, and I thank the coach.''

Marek Hamsik broke the deadlock in the 53rd and Edinson Cavani doubled Napoli's lead from the spot after he was brought down by Bologna goalkeeper Dejan Stojanovic.

Goran Pandev sealed the result following more good work from Cavani.

Gonzalo Rodriguez's goal kept alive Fiorentina's slim hopes of finishing third.

Inter Milan's chances of snatching a Europa League spot are all but over after it lost 3-1 at home to direct rival Lazio.

Inter goalkeeper Samir Handanovic gifted Lazio the lead when he mistimed his attempt to punch clear Antonio Candreva's cross, clashing with Sergio Floccari and Juan Jesus, and the ball ended in the back of the net.

Ricky Alvarez headed Inter level but Lazio restored its lead in first-half stoppage time when Andrea Ranocchia brought down Sergio Floccari and Hernanes converted the resulting penalty.

Inter was awarded a penalty of its own when Lorik Cana fouled Fredy Guarin, but Alvarez slipped as he took the spot kick and blasted over the bar.

Ogenyi Onazi scored a stunning third for Lazio, from 30 yards.

Lazio moved level on points with Roma, two points behind Udinese, which beat struggling Palermo 3-2.

Luis Muriel, Gabriele Angella and Mehdi Benatia scored for Udinese, with the winner coming following a howler from Palermo goalkeeper Stefano Sorrentino.

Palermo twice leveled through a Fabrizio Miccoli penalty and a stunning, long-range Abel Hernandez strike.

Udinese captain Antonio Di Natale also missed a penalty.

Palermo was four points from safety after Torino drew 0-0 against Genoa. Siena was two points further back but has a better head-to-head record against Genoa.

Newly crowned champion Juventus showed no hangover from Sunday's title celebrations as it won 1-0 at Atalanta.

Alessandro Matri raced clear in the 18th minute to bring down Andrea Pirlo's long ball and lob the goalkeeper.

The match was suspended for about five minutes, with the fans throwing fireworks at each other. Antonio Conte and the Atalanta players went to ask their respective sets of fans to stop.

Sampdoria drew 1-1 against Catania. Parma beat Cagliari 1-0.

Read More: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/soccer/news/20130508/italy-roundup-mario-balotelli.ap/#ixzz2Snp7vPYo

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262. "Mario Kart for real"
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he needs a character in the next one

http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/blogs/world-of-sport/super-mario-kart-balotelli-drives-200k-ferrari-around-131857883.html




AC Milan have banned Mario Balotelli from driving go-karts so he came up with a unique way to get his thrill.
The always entertaining Manchester City man decided instead to turn up to a go-kart track just outside of Milan with his 200,000 Ferrari 450 and drive that around the track instead.

The owner of the Pala K track Joe Ghiringhelli explained: "'Mario loves coming here but he's not allowed to race the karts because of his AC Milan contract - they are worried he may injure himself.
"I must say though that we have never had any accidents here so I'm going to write to AC Milan and tell them they have no need to worry about the players using the karts.
"Mario is a regular visitor here and would come over even when he was playing in England - he loves the karts and driving although he said he could never get used to driving in England because over there they drive on the other side of the road.
"We let him take his new Ferrari out on the track and he was roaring around laughing and having fun. Fanny (his girlfriend) was no where to be seen but as we all know Mario is a bit of a shooter and won't be too worried about her, he will be with someone new before you know it."
Balotelli has been in superb form since return to Italy - scoring 11 goals in 11 games - including two in a 4-0 win over Pescara on Wednesday night.

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Navem nu, cuando sol
Tutu nu, vondo nos nu
Vita em, no continous non
Nos nu ekta nos sepe ta, amen

When the sun shades the ship
We sweat and life is not safe
To swim or to touch not
When we unite we hedge amen

  

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263. "*stuck betwixt a facepalm and a fist pump*"
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264. "I get a huge smile every time this thread reappears on the first page"
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265. "i love his logic"
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266. "nothing too fun this week"
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2327408/Mario-Balotelli-suffers-racist-abuse-Fiorentina-fans-controversial-AC-Milan-win.html

I wish they'd let him pummel one of these motherfuckers one day

*shout out to my main man Mexes scoring a marauder's goal (FILOU) to send his team to the CL, btw*

  

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267. "Keeps winning tho, that is some consolation."
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That and all those asshat's sisters would probably jump in his Bentley if he pulled up on their block.

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268. "Wait...this dude has a pet piglet?"
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I kid you not, you couldn't make half this stuff up.

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269. "I bet you the pig rides shotgun in the Ferrari too...lol"
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270. "oh shit, I missed that. Mario on some Ken Jeong shit."
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271. "YOU WILL SWEAT THE TEARS OF MY MOTHER! (swipe)"
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You and I don't know what it means, but it's our boy Mario letting them know its not a joke out in these streets (driving a Ferrari):


http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/unless-you-apologise-you-will-sweat-the-tears-of-my-mother-mario-balotelli-furiously-denies-claims-he-sold-drugs-for-naples-camorra-mafia-8639792.html


Mario Balotelli has reacted angrily to claims he sold drugs for the Camorra the fearsome mafia group based in and around Naples.

The AC Milan striker posted furious messages on Twitter denying the accusations, which were made by gangster-turned-supergrass Armando De Rosa at a money laundering trial yesterday.

De Rosa is said to have claimed the 22-year-old had sold drugs as a joke after meeting Mafiosi from the Russo and Amato-Pagano clans in the run-down Scampia neighbourhood of northern Naples.

De Rosa reportedly told the court: A friend called and said Would you like to see Balotelli who was in Scampia. I thought it was a joke but he asked me to come and see him at a syringe exchange he had.

Click here for an image gallery of Mario Balotelli's crazy antics on and off the pitch

The former gangster went on to say that, after the striker watched a picciotto (a young, low-ranking street dealer) sell cocaine and heroin to addicts, the former Manchester City star asked if he could try dealing for a joke.

De Rosa said: So he handed a dose to the next client. I remember asking him if he had recognised Balotelli but he didnt know what was happening or believe me.

Balotelli took to Twitter to furiously deny the allegations just minutes after a Naples-based television channel first broadcast them.

In a tweet reportedly aimed at prosecutors, Balotelli wrote: Ah, so now Im a drug dealer You should be ashamed. You are using my name just to publicise yourselves.

Balotellis tweet was removed hours later, with Italian media claiming AC Milan had forced him to take it down. The club has made no public statement on the situation, however.

Italy boss Cesare Prandelli refused to be drawn on the subject, insisting Balotelli's comments would suffice given the sensitive nature of the issue. It seems to me that Mario has responded, so theres nothing else to say, he told a press conference yesterday.

Just hours after the first tweet was removed, Balotelli took to Twitter once again, this time turning on the television channel that first broadcasted the Mafiosos alleged claims.

The striker tweeted: Your newsroom should be closed down. Unless you apologise you will sweat the tears of my mother.

De Rosas claims come after investigators questioned Balotelli over allegations he had been show around Naples by gangsters in 2010.

Balotelli admitted being in Naples at the time, but said he had left Scampia after realising it was a dangerous area. He has never been charged with any offence relating to the visit and has never formally been suspected of any criminal activity.

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273. "yo that's a hell of a line"
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i still blame hip-hop.

  

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275. "Nobody knows what it means, but it's provocative."
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274. "Two yellow cards, wall catches the flak:"
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http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/soccer-dirty-tackle/mario-balotelli-beats-wall-collecting-two-yellow-cards-205627921.html

Mario Balotelli beats up a wall after collecting two yellow cards in four minutes
By Brooks Peck | Dirty Tackle 18 minutes ago


It's been a relatively calm and fruitful period for Mario Balotelli since he joined Milan from Man City in January. But in the second half of Italy's World Cup qualifier against the Czech Republic, Balotelli's old proclivity for getting sent off popped up at an inopportune time. The 22-year-old was booked twice in a span of four minutes for a couple of needless fouls, resulting in a sending off in the 72nd minute. Balotelli then let out his frustration by punching one wall of the tunnel and kicking the other (1:00 into the video above).

You could argue that the second yellow was a bit soft, but after the match, Italy manager Cesare Prandelli said that Balotelli needs to manage his temper better. From Football Italia:

Balotelli has to learn how to accept situations and he needs to grow in that sense. We will drum that message into him. I was going to substitute him, but I didnt have time, confessed Prandelli.

The match between group leaders Italy and the third-place Czechs ended in a 0-0 draw. Italy remain undefeated through seven matches in this final stage of qualifying.

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276. "Since he was hurt and couldn't take a penalty yesterday..."
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Here is a compilation of a lot of his PKs. Has yet to miss one as a professional.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4I0E3ovJLY

  

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278. "that stutter step is fierce"
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even if the goalie doesn't bite, he puts it in an impossible corner.

  

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279. "yea there's been talk of banning it, not sure how enforcable itd be thou..."
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280. "In case you didn't read Wright Thompson's piece"
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Read it: http://espn.go.com/espn/feature/story/_/id/9338962/when-beautiful-game-turns-ugly

  

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281. "Great piece n/m"
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282. "Sorella soldato parla del strinsero quelle*"
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http://sports.yahoo.com/news/racists-threatened-balotelli-125400284--sow.html


'Racists are threatened by Balotelli'


Italy's Minister for Integration, Cecile Kyenge, says racists feel threatened by Mario Balotelli.

Congolese-born surgeon Kyenge, who endured racist slurs this week when bananas were thrown at her during a political rally, spoke to Gazzetta dello Sport about the growing problem in Italy and how to tackle the issue.

"If you are a good administrator or political leader, then you have to be able to recognize this problem, understand the causes and find the right way to communicate and react," she explained. "Racism is helped by the economic crisis, by fear, insecurity and an idea of diversity that is never presented as enriching the culture.

"After all, whats happening to me also happened to Balotelli. While he was an Italian player and that's it, especially when playing abroad, he was in some way accepted. Then he represented Italy, playing for the Nazionale, scoring and winning. At that point, some people felt threatened."

Kyenge's comments come in the wake of another scandal where Milan's Kevin Constant walked off the pitch during his side's TIM Trophy match against Sassuolo last week, apparently in response to racist insults from the crowd.

"It's a little bit like what happened when I was made minister," the 48-year-old politician continued. It all comes down to fear of diversity, which is why we must change our way of communicating what diversity really is.

"A multi-ethnic Nazionale is inevitable, natural and unstoppable," she added, in response to the fact the only black players in the Italy national team are Balotelli and Angelo Ogbonna.

"Sport is waking up to the problem of racism and we must multiply our initiatives. From Tuesday we start a three-year plan to fight racial discrimination. Will I go to Brazil for the World Cup? I hope so."



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283. "Tickling the ivory"
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284. "Forget Dos Equis...this guy is the World's Most Interesting Man."
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He's almost a real life version of the character.

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286. "pirlo not impressed"
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lol. awesome.

  

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287. "He must have watched that Mormon video:"
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Dunking...with ease of course:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7CEvKqKyLA

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289. "lol @ with ease"
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he barely got up there
CR7 woulda yammed that thing

  

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290. "he don't know how to palm a ball and barely jumped"
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He's a 6' 2" striker...he could probably do Vince's elbow dunk if he's really trying...

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291. "God blesses SI"
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http://www.kckrs.com/mario-balotelli-graces-the-cover-of-sports-illustrated/

  

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292. "'Why me?'"
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293. "wow."
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294. "All good things come to an end: Penalty streak ends...but excitement? Ne..."
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http://sports.yahoo.com/news/soccer-balotelli-suffers-first-penalty-miss-milan-defeat-220156946--sow.html



Soccer-Balotelli suffers first penalty miss in Milan defeat

Reuters
3 hours ago

(Adds Balotelli red card, Allegri quotes)

Sept 22 (Reuters) - Mario Balotelli missed a penalty for the first time in his career as AC Milan slumped to a 2-1 defeat at home to Serie A joint leaders Napoli on Sunday.

In a typically eventful performance, "Supermario" was also booked, hit the crossbar, had another penalty appeal turned down, brought the game to life with a brilliant stoppage time goal and got sent off for arguing after the final whistle.

Balotelli, who had converted all 21 of his previous penalties in official matches, watched his run come to an end when Napoli goalkeeper Pepe Reina dived low to his right to keep out his effort just after the hour.

The defeat, Milan's first at home in the league since November and their first at home to Napoli since April 1986, left the hosts with a miserly four points from four games.

Their poor start is almost certain to lead to renewed speculation over the future of coach Massimiliano Allegri who still managed to put a brave face on another difficult evening.

"The team has played their best match of the championship, only making mistakes in the first 10 minutes and with the Napoli goals," he told Sky Sports Italia.

"We still have great chances to fight for first place. We are going to play better and we will get all the players fully fit."

Napoli, who have won all four Serie A games so far this season, went ahead in the sixth minute through Miguel Britos and Gonzalo Higuain made it 2-0 with a low, 25-metre shot which slipped through Christian Abbiati's hands in the 53rd minute.

Injury-hit Milan, who scrambled a 2-0 Champions League win over Celtic on Wednesday, produced another disjointed performance but had a golden chance to reduce the arrears when Balotelli was fouled in the area, only for Reina to save the penalty.

Balotelli, 23, then smashed another effort against the crossbar after a one-two with Alessandro Matri, saw a dipping 25-metre effort turned over by Reina and went down again in the area, only for the referee to wave play-on.

But he still gave Milan hope when he curled the ball in from the edge of the area in the 91st minute.

He finished his evening by getting into an angry exchange with Napoli's Valon Behrami and remonstrating with the referee who lost patience and showed a second yellow card.

"I don't know what to say about the protests at the end," said Allegri. "It's better not to create confusion, the referee has already made up his mind."

(Writing by Brian Homewood in Berne; Editing by John Mehaffey)

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295. "http://hasbalotellimissedapenalty.com/"
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http://hasbalotellimissedapenalty.com/

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296. "Hahahaha...the internet is horrible"
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297. "Ex-police officer employed to look after Mario Balotelli (swipe):"
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http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/ex-police-officer-employed-look-after-2646687


AC Milan have installed a former police officer in their latest attempt to reign in Mario Balotelli's captivating persona.

The decision comes after the Italian striker snapped at a cameraman whilst on international duty last month.

The Rossoneri have decided enough is enough and brought in ex-police chief Filippo Ferri to look after the 23-year-old.

Ferri had been working as head of security at Milan for months, and it is yet to be confirmed exactly what responsibilities he will be undertaking.

Chelsea boss Jose Mourinho, who worked with Balotelli at Inter Milan, told reporters that the appointment can only have a positive effect.

He said: "Mario is a great guy. I don't know what Ferri's specific tasks will be, but certainly with a lunatic like him, you never get bored."

Balotelli moved back to his native Italy in January following a fascinating spell with Manchester City.

During that time, the eccentric striker was rumoured to have driven round Manchester dressed as Santa, handing out 10 notes, as well as letting fireworks off in his own bedroom.

The latter incident occurred before Balotelli shone in City's 6-1 demolition of Manchester United in 2011, when he displayed the now-famous 'Why always me?' t-shirt.

Since his return to his homeland, he has continued to make the news on and off the field and was recently suspended for comments made towards a referee following his side's defeat to Napoli.

Another controversial figure, Diego Maradona has also offered to lend Balotelli a helping hand and offer advice on how deal with the pressure of being a high-profile footballer.

Check out all the latest News, Sport & Celeb gossip at Mirror.co.uk http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/ex-police-officer-employed-look-after-2646687#ixzz2j1Qd24Ap
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298. "possibly double parking in front of your favorite pub again:"
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http://metro.co.uk/2013/10/26/chelsea-alerted-as-agent-admits-mario-balotelli-could-leave-ac-milan-4162080/

Chelsea alerted as agent admits Mario Balotelli could leave AC Milan
By Jamie Sanderson Saturday 26 Oct 2013 1:47 pm
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Chelsea alerted as Balotelli edges towards Milan exitMario Balotelli could leave AC Milan in the coming months (Picture: Getty)

Chelsea have been alerted to the availability of Mario Balotelli after his agent admitted the striker could leave AC Milan.

Balotelli, who left Manchester City to join Milan last January, has been in stunning form in Serie A, scoring 15 goals in 17 matches.

But despite impressing on the pitch, his off-field antics have continued, and agent Mino Raiola has hinted that the player could be on the move again soon.

There is an exaggerated amount of attention on him, said Raiola.

MORE: AC Milan hire former police officer to look after Mario Balotelli
Inter Milan's Portuguese coach Jose MourJose Mourinho has worked with Balotelli before (Picture: Getty)

We all need to calm down and analyse how things are going with Milan.

Italy will not be the final stage of his career, for sure.

Its thought that the comments will alert Chelsea boss Jose Mourinho, who has worked with Balotelli in the past, and has recently spoke of his admiration of the player.

Any deal with Milan would likely cost around 30million, but having missed out on Radamel Falcao, Robert Lewandowski and Wayne Rooney in the summer, the Blues are on the lookout for a top quality striker.

Balotelli still has four years left on his Milan contract.

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299. "SWAG."
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https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BbowSfbCYAA2Rp9.jpg:large
swipe: http://ftw.usatoday.com/2013/12/mario-balotelli-newspaper-cleats/

  

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300. "i'm late"
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was coming to post this. lol

  

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301. "Forgive me Mario, for I have sinned:"
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http://ftw.usatoday.com/2013/08/pope-francis-messi-buffon-italy-argentina-private-meeting-with-mario-balotelli/


I'm months late on this but it needed to be added.

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302. "Cause and effect"
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Cause:

http://news.yahoo.com/italy-players-free-reign-social-media-160824803.html



Effect:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/worldcup2014/article-2639570/WATCH-Mario-Balotelli-fires-warning-shot-Italys-World-Cup-rivals-bizarre-boxing-video.html

  

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303. "Mario coaching Italy"
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https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1430946300511595&set=a.1427766484162910.1073741830.1421605904778968&type=1

  

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304. "some kids just ran on the field to take a selfie with balotelli"
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during this intl champions cup game in Pittsburgh

https://twitter.com/brelabos/status/493520221672439808

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307. "http://imgur.com/eIQxamY"
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http://imgur.com/eIQxamY

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308. "Love it!"
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305. "AND he's got the baddest chick in the diaspora"
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http://elitedaily.com/sports/20-things-you-need-to-know-about-mario-balotellis-fiancee-fanny-neguesha/632705/

  

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309. "Just read his book last week"
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and just read this post for the first time start to finish.

im a fan.

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310. "Balo to Anfield"
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Reports say it's done. Milan reports that he's said bye to teammates and left the ground

  

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311. "anybody using an EPL team besides 'pool in FIFA15 is a buster"
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Sterling, Sturridge, AND Balotelli? yeah I'll still angle for Yaya and Dzeko on my FUT team, but Liverpool gotta be first choice in England.

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314. "^ so american."
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316. "WOW. "
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312. "So I just got back from two nights in Milan"
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Wife and I loved the city, and in the course of walking around town, went into both the Inter store and the AC store.

Spoke with the sales guy in the AC store, told him we were deciding if we should start rooting for AC or Inter. Naturally, he said we should root for AC.

I told him we probably would, because I really like Balotelli.

You would have thought I told him his mother was a whore.

He reacted the way I imagine some 75 year old white Dodgers fan reacts to Puig. He specifically said "He needs to just shut up and play!"

I still might go with AC even with Balotelli gone, but the reaction of the sales guy was too funny.

*Jews you*

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Proceed with caution. I am overtly racist.

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313. "Don't root for AC Milan"
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Inter is better.

and lol @ that store clerk.

Also big name players changes clubs every 18 months, so don't pick based on a player, IMO.

  

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esp if your reason for doing so is a nighttime stroll w wifey.

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317. "on paper, Milan has a better legacy than Inter."
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But to be honest, both clubs are shells of themselves right now.

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318. "Between fascist history and Berlusconi, it's not a good look"
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to support Milan.

If you want to keep it Lombardy, Atalanta is a quirky and cool club to support.

  

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319. "Wild child struggling, but growing up too:"
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He still giving his fans this:

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/10/16/1413466288560_wps_4_MARIO_BALOTELLI_INSTAGRAM.jpg


He's been struggling, but wouldn't you (*bites fist*):

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/07/12/article-2689481-1F95368300000578-862_634x919.jpg

They broke up, now its time for the worlds most interesting striker to get back to form....


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2796416/mario-balotelli-hails-liverpool-boss-brendan-rodgers-declaring-improve.html

Liverpool striker Mario Balotelli insists there will be no more fireworks off the pitch - and says that anyone who thinks he has sex just before a match is having a laugh.
The Italy striker is more famous for his off-field antics than his exploits on the pitch, and the most notorious incident was when fireworks were let off in his bathroom.
Balotelli said: 'I have done mistakes in the past, like everybody did when they were young.

'And the firework thing did happen, but it wasn't me who let it off. I know England is like this, though, so it's OK. It's a shame, sure, but I get used to it – the newspapers are always trying to give an image of Mario that is bad, printing things that aren't true.
'Off the pitch, really I don't have any problems because I am always home. When people speak bad about me, it's only because they listen to the media and read what the newspapers say. They maybe lose a little bit of focus on my football, so everybody thinks I am famous for what happens outside the pitch.'
The 24-year-old also said rumours of him having sex just before a match were unfounded - and that he is only interested in scoring on the pitch.
He told Sport magazine: 'Someone told me recently that I had apparently said that if I have sex three or four hours before a game, it is working for me on the pitch. Trust me, if I am having sex four hours before a game I am not able to play. I don't think anyone could. It makes me laugh, but this is not me.
'I am only focused on football. I live out in the countryside, I am relaxed and I just hope the time that I'm going to score is coming soon. Then maybe they will concentrate more on football and not all the other bull****.'
To that end, Balotelli believes Brendan Rodgers's strength of character can help him make a success of his Liverpool career.
The Italy international said he was surprised by the quality in Liverpool's squad when he signed and has admitted that he is desperate to score his first Premier League goal for the club.
The striker has had the international break to focus solely on his club form after being dropped by the new Italy head coach, Antonio Conte, and says he is determined to repay the faith shown to him by the Liverpool supporters.

Asked about playing under Rodgers, Balotelli said: 'He is very good, a strong character, and I think that comes out in the way the team plays.
'I think he can help me improve as a player. He is very open, everybody can talk to him, but first he looks at the person, and second he looks at the footballer. With Brendan, you need to be a good person – you don't have to be, how do you say it, a d***head.
'I need to get in the box more. I don't do it enough, but it is something I am working to try to do more. I have never been a real, out-and-out striker – I have always been someone who goes around the pitch, you know?
'If it was my choice, I would always go with two strikers. It's the way I like to play, but Brendan asked me to play as the first striker. I understand that when the ball comes from wide on the left or right, I need to be in the box otherwise there might be no-one there at all.
'I can see already that the Liverpool fans really like me, although I know that maybe they are a little upset because I don't score. I see they appreciate that I am working hard, though, which is nice for me.'
Balotelli added: 'I didn't really know much about the club before coming here, but I've been really surprised.
'I knew they were a very good team, but I didn't know they were as good as they are. Of course we need to improve many things because we have started off not very good, but I think the players here are amazing.'

Balotelli said his current objective is to break his Premier League duck. 'I can see already that the Liverpool fans really like me, although I know that maybe they are a little upset because I don't score.
'I see they appreciate that I am working hard, though, which is nice for me. I know I have one goal in the Champions League, but in the Premier League I have to start with one. After that, I might set myself a target, but I swear – right now my first league goal is my first and only objective.
'I need to get in the box more. I don't do it enough, but it is something I am working to try to do more. I have never been a real, out-and-out striker – I have always been someone who goes around the pitch, you know?
'If it was my choice, I would always go with two strikers. It's the way I like to play, but Brendan asked me to play as the first striker. I understand that when the ball comes from wide on the left or right, I need to be in the box otherwise there might be no one there at all.'
Balotelli also compared Steven Gerrard to his fellow Italian Andrea Pirlo: 'Gerrard is an amazing player. I had really not seen much of him before this season, apart from for England, but wow. I think of him as being at the same level as Pirlo.

'Vision, technique, but he is powerful as well. Stevie can do anything. It's going to be very difficult for the team to find another player like him in the future.'
Balotelli is settling on Merseyside but misses his pet dogs who are back home in Italy; a labrador-pitbull cross Lucky, who lives in with the star's foster parents and his other dog, a rottweiler called Tyson, he said: 'If I say kiss, then she kisses me.
'Of course I miss my family and friends in Italy. But when I go back, I spend hours talking with my parents. Then I visit my friends and we do normal stuff – you know, playing PlayStation and ping pong. Then I pick up my dogs and we go for a walk.
'They are really clever, my dogs. Lucky is unbelievable – when you look into her face, it is like you are with a real person. When I speak, she listens. I only have to say things one time. If I ask her for her paw, she gives it to me. I ask her to sit, she sits; I say she can run, she runs. Everything I ask her to do, she does.'

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320. "... but Mario loves the pigs"
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http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/news-and-comment/mario-balotelli-pig-striker-waiting-to-be-reunited-with-pet-which-is-grounded-in-italy-9787644.html

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321. "Was watching my first match in a long time"
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And they just kept bashing him. I was like wtf cism. But the more I watched the more I realized he's in dgaf mode.

He shoots everything within 20 Yds
Doesn't celebrate or congratulate teammates when they score
Terrible body language.

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322. "Now has more pets than goals in the Premiership for Liverpool:"
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https://twitter.com/FinallyMario/status/551075253645246467/photo/1


But he's still that Dude. Hoping Sturridge comes back soon so they can team up.

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323. "FINALLY! "
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Just in time...puts his squad back in the Champion's League picture.


Picture is worth a thousand words: http://instagram.com/p/y8BvYJLjy4/


https://sports.yahoo.com/news/balotellis-back-striker-returns-spotlight-big-goal-113805232.html

Scoring a first English Premier League goal for your club to win a crucial match against one of your big rivals would arouse outward feelings of relief and elation in most players.

Not Mario Balotelli.

With Anfield rocking and his teammates jumping all over him, the enigmatic Italian looked to the ground and remained stony-faced after scoring a late winner for Liverpool in its 3-2 victory over Tottenham on Tuesday. At the final whistle, as Liverpool's players celebrated in front of their fans, Balotelli walked quickly down the tunnel.

Balotelli never celebrates his goals — "I'm doing my job. When the postman delivers your letter, does he celebrate?" he said in 2012 — yet after seven months and 13 league game without scoring, he must have been tempted to break out into a smile.

It was the simplest of goals, a close-range finish from Adam Lallana's low cross, but a crucial one for Liverpool's hopes of returning to the Champions League next season — and maybe for Balotelli's chances of staying at the club beyond this summer.

Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers has openly acknowledged that Balotelli's languid style and lack of movement doesn't fit into the Liverpool way. Balotelli hasn't started a match since Nov. 8, and hasn't even made the bench sometimes. Liverpool's pursuit of Burnley striker Danny Ings during the winter transfer window raised even more doubts about Balotelli's future.

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His goal against Spurs, however, might make Rodgers think again about Balotelli's usefulness until the end of the season. And a few more goals will start getting the Anfield crowd back on Balotelli's side.

"He needs to keep working hard, because when he works hard, and comes on like that, the fans warm to him, and people react to him," Lallana said of Balotelli. "He can score goals.

"He needs to keep working hard, and I'm sure the goals will keep coming."

Hours after the game, Balotelli tweeted a picture of himself smiling, with the message: "This smile is ONLY for those that always (believe) and support me."

Liverpool fans had basically given up on the striker, disillusioned with his work rate and preferring the more harrying style of fellow forwards Daniel Sturridge and Raheem Sterling. Balotelli raised the ire of many supporters by swapping jerseys with Real Madrid defender Pepe as they walked off for halftime in a Champions League game at Anfield.

Balotelli's long-term future at Liverpool remains unsure, but at least he'll be happy to have shown he hasn't lost the knack of scoring goals.

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324. "honestly forgot he was on the team"
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326. "they would be idiots to let him go....he compliments Sturridge"
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They need to pair them together.

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327. "he hasn't been doing that."
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until this last game, he floats around and doesn't fit into the system. At the same time BR wasn't playing to his strengths.

He's just not a good fit, right now at least.

  

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329. "him with Sturridge would work just because of that..."
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You have to account for him and he is adept at finding space- its not like he is lazy...so give him the freedom to do that.

We'll see. Hopefully him scoring will bring him more time on the pitch.

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330. "I thought we'd see Balo as a Suarez knock-off, not a Sturridge stand-in"
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so yeah, I agree with what you're saying. Balotelli is more valuable when he can play alongside Sturridge, but Liverpool hasn't had much opportunity to deploy him in that role.

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331. "now that rodgers has found success with the 3-4-2-1"
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it might be hard to get back into more of the diamond formation that was so successful with sturridge and suarez last year. i'm trying to think of the last time two strikers were on the pitch for liverpool. also, suarez was constantly moving around and creating space for himself in a way that's different than balotelli, so the way sturridge and balo would play off each other won't be the same.

but balotelli has admitted to preferring to have another striker to play with and with the injuries to lucas and gerrard and return to full health of sturridge, some formation changes may be due. i have not liked what i've seen from allen in midfield so taking him out, pulling moreno back, henderson holding mid with sterling and markovic wide, with coutinho behind sturridge and balotelli up top could be fun. but i think rodgers will stick with what is working for now though.

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332. "I appreciate you guy's insight. "
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333. "agree as usual"
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balo was never going to duplicate Suarez's role. They're too different with and without the ball. (Not to mention talent........ )

And when Balo isn't invested, he just settles for mediocre shots at distance.

The Spurs goal was nice because Balo made a great run and got to a dangerous spot. If he does more of that, he could shine.



>it might be hard to get back into more of the diamond
>formation that was so successful with sturridge and suarez
>last year. i'm trying to think of the last time two strikers
>were on the pitch for liverpool. also, suarez was constantly
>moving around and creating space for himself in a way that's
>different than balotelli, so the way sturridge and balo would
>play off each other won't be the same.
>
>but balotelli has admitted to preferring to have another
>striker to play with and with the injuries to lucas and
>gerrard and return to full health of sturridge, some formation
>changes may be due. i have not liked what i've seen from
>allen in midfield so taking him out, pulling moreno back,
>henderson holding mid with sterling and markovic wide, with
>coutinho behind sturridge and balotelli up top could be fun.
>but i think rodgers will stick with what is working for now
>though.

  

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334. "balo was instrumental against palace as well"
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finally got to see him and sturridge up front. there was one long ball from lovren that balotelli chased down to feed to lambert for a shot; his low, powerful free kick led directly to lallana's goal; and his ability to hold off defenders and pass up shooting opportunities to keep possession in the waning minutes was key to preventing a late palace attack.

this is exactly the kind of performance liverpool need if they want to compete for a top four finish and continue their runs in the FA cup and europa league

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328. "you're doing it wrong ---> he stays killing it for me in FIFA"
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325. "https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BwLvSQWIgAEWJ9U.jpg"
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335. "HIS HEEL POWER IS GROWING [LINK]"
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http://screamer.deadspin.com/mario-balotelli-does-selfish-swaggy-thing-wins-game-f-1686866387?utm_campaign=socialflow_deadspin_twitter&utm_source=deadspin_twitter&utm_medium=socialflow

  

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336. "One of the best penalty takers in the world"
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He did the right thing

  

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337. "oh i don't disagree, but he's even a heel to his own teammates."
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he's the best/worst in the world. i love him.

  

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338. "Hahahaha we all do"
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>he's the best/worst in the world. i love him.

  

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339. "even when he does the right thing he aggravates ppl"
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WHY ALWAYS ME indeed

Still no idea why Henderson thought he should be taking that

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340. "zlatan thinks that zlatan should take it (c) adidas commercial"
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341. "LOVE IT!!!! THAT'S OUR DUDE DOING HIS THING!!!!!"
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342. ""I'm gonna take it." *gifneeded*"
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343. "Frustrating season finally ends for MB:"
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4 goals for the season....would be surprised to see him return to Anfield. We'll find out in the coming weeks.


http://www.sbnation.com/lookit/2015/5/25/8654657/mario-balotelli-instagram-chained-in-dungeon-liverpool

Mario Balotelli is defying convention. Typically it was Mario's job to save Princess Peach from a tower, but he's subverting our expectations. In this analogy Brendan Rodgers is Bowser, which is appropriate.

Mario's picture raises one question: Is there really a hideous tower prison looming above Anfield? After extensive research and satellite evidence from Google we can say that it appears Balotelli's picture is an exaggeration. It's surprising, we know.

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344. "The tragicomedy of Super Mario"
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Great story - http://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2015/aug/15/liverpool-mario-balotelli-tragicomedy

Eventually, the time comes when Mario Balotelli has spent so long living in his own private universe we have probably reached the stage where it is pointless wondering when, or if, he will be ready to fit into a reasonably hinged working environment.

It isn’t going to happen, plainly. Nobody is waiting any longer and though there is always something profoundly sad and unsatisfactory about the misuse of talent the disappointment in this case is tempered by the fact we have had a decent amount of time to get used to the idea.

Balotelli has kept all that ability hidden away for so long it isn’t easy to be sure even he knows where it is stored these days. He has been guiding us to this point for years and nobody should be too surprised it is ending so badly at Liverpool or that, yet again, he is demonstrating why Mario Sconcerti in Corriere della Sera once described him as a player with “an unusual talent for making people happy when he arrives and even happier when he leaves”.

The big clubs have stopped ringing and Liverpool must realise how misguided they were given they were specifically warned off Balotelli when they spoke to their counterparts at Manchester City this time a year ago. Nobody listened. Liverpool have lost a small fortune in the process and the most jarring thing about Balotelli’s time at Anfield – the relevant chapter in Luca Caioli’s new biography of the player is simply and accurately called “Flop” – is that it has all been so utterly predictable. Everyone could have seen this coming a mile off, and it does make me wonder whether Brendan Rodgers, at the time the newly crowned manager of the year, was feeling a little too pleased with himself and over-egging his own abilities to imagine he could do something that was beyond José Mourinho, Cesare Prandelli and Roberto Mancini, namely turning Balotelli into a fully functional professional, capable of grown-up football and joined-up thinking.

It has certainly been no surprise for those of us who remember the way Balotelli drove Mancini to the point of distraction at City and the often ungovernable mindset of the man who wore a gold medallion inscribed with the words “Professionalism, Endeavour, Humility” yet frequently lived his life in precisely the opposite way.

Balotelli was never an outcast at City where his regular routine after training was to perch himself on a concrete step, still in his kit, and spark up a cigarette with a ginger cat called Wimbleydon on his knee, chatting to his favourite feline about how he had played. Wimbleydon was an old stray that had been adopted by City in the Kevin Keegan era and was named after the way the Colombian fitness coach, Juan Carlos Osorio, pronounced Wimbledon. Nobody spent more time with it than Balotelli, to the point that when it disappeared one evening the initial suspicion was that he had taken it back to his apartment in Deansgate, smuggled in the back of his army-camouflage Bentley.

He had endearing qualities – in an industry, let’s remember, where we often complain there aren’t enough personalities – and was popular enough for the National Football Museum to put his most unusual hat on display. You might remember the one: styled like a chicken’s comb, or the rubber glove worn by the penguin in Wallace and Gromit, and bringing back memories of the sartorial advice in the autobiography of another leading fashionista. “What a lovely hat,” Miss Piggy writes. “But may I make one teensy suggestion? If it blows off, don’t chase it.”

But then there were the less appealing stories of his professional standards, or lack of them, and after all this time it is slightly wearing, to say the least, that he has still not grown out of that period of adult adolescence and finds himself so unwanted at Liverpool he has been banished to a separate training pitch.

Mancini tells one story about bringing on Balotelli for one match with specific instructions about where to play, drumming it into him that there would be space to exploit if he listened to the tactical advice, only for the player to take up a different position and dismissively wave his hand, completely avoiding eye contact, when he heard his manager shouting.

The same has happened with Rodgers on at least one occasion and it is slightly unnerving to hear that a supposedly professional footballer hadn’t learned the name of some team-mates, established Liverpool players, in the Christmas of his first season or that in one training session he took it upon himself to turn towards his own goal and lash a shot towards Brad Jones from close to the halfway line. Nobody can be sure why – boredom, possibly, or a sense of indignity that he was in a scratch team of reserves – but it is vaguely amusing, in keeping with the whole tragicomedy, that it flew into the top corner from 40 yards. It is just a pity he has stopped showing those flashes of excellence in a more orthodox way.

Liverpool will move on and, eventually, so will Balotelli and the strangely ubiquitous Desmond N’Ze, the old friend from Internazionale who now apparently acts as his gopher and has been seen sleeping in the passenger seat of his Ferrari at the club’s training ground.

But what do the transfer fees say of Balotelli’s career? He cost City £22.5m when he signed from Internazionale in 2010. He was sold to Milan for £19m. Liverpool paid £16m and now they would accept £8m. Balotelli – the player Mancini said could be as good as Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi – is available for the same amount West Brom have just spent on James Chester of Hull City, and Bournemouth for Ipswich’s Tyrone Mings. And nobody is coming up with the money.

The alternative is a loan deal but that would require Liverpool to pay a significant chunk of his wages, possibly as much as 60%. Sampdoria have tentatively been in touch but that, too, is another sign of how far he has fallen. The blucerchiati have had one top-four finish in Serie A in the past 20 years. They had an average crowd of 22,000 at Stadio Luigi Ferraris last season and the information from Balotelli’s camp is that he may yet hang around for at least one more transfer window to see if something better comes along. Liverpool could be stuck with him for some time yet and, to put it bluntly, more fool them.

In the meantime, Balotelli will have to understand why Caioli sums it up as “a great player drowned in nothingness … a talented boy called to be a star of world football who got lost en route”. Balotelli is a wealthy man, with all the footballer’s accessories: the fast cars, the designer labels and the string of glitterati girlfriends. He was once among the world’s most influential 100 people, according to Time magazine, in between Pope Francis and Michelle Obama and was the youngest on the list other than Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani activist who survived being shot by the Taliban and went on to win the Nobel Prize. Yet, football-wise, there should have been so much more. Balotelli is the hero for the LOL generation, the Jackass viewers and the banter crowd, but he is not a great footballer or the player he should have been. He is merely a good player, if the mood suits, and sometimes not even that when his mind is elsewhere. He is, as Luigi Garlando wrote in Gazzetta dello Sport, “condemned to chase a rainbow he will never reach”. The saddest thing, perhaps, is that he just doesn’t get it.

He never has, going all the way back to his early days with Inter and the little scene that unfolded at half-time of one match. Santiago Solari, the team’s Argentinian midfielder, tells the story in Caioli’s book and it is a piece of classic Balotelli. “It must have been his first or second match with us,” Solari says. “We were waiting for Mancini to come in for his half-time talk and Mario was playing with a PSP, a portable PlayStation. I told him to put it away immediately. He looked at me and replied incredulously: ‘Why?’”

  

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345. "Mario launches kid's football boots that have a mohawk/mullet "
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http://www.sportsjoe.ie/football/mario-balotelli-junior-football-boots-puma/36310

  

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346. "Our Boy is good again:"
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Through ball not looking:

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/2572608-mario-balotelli-produces-outrageous-rabona-through-ball-for-ac-milan

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347. "He's always had the talent"
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It was whether he could get out of his own way and stop being such a knucklehead.

I hope he can lock it down and become one of the world's best.

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348. "After all this craziness...he's still only 25."
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349. "Exactly...his talent level is that of a top player"
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His mentality is that not of a top player...hopefully he can match the mental aspect with his physical talents.

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350. "Mario in Milan....still only 25. Can he get it together???"
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http://www.football-italia.net/82757/brocchi-%E2%80%98excited-work-balotelli%E2%80%99


Liverpool are reportedly eagerly trying to find a buyer for Mario Balotelli as they bid to free themselves of his £4.5million-per-season wages.

The Italian striker is set to return to Anfield this summer when his season-long loan spell at AC Milan expires.

The 25-year-old has made 18 appearances for Milan, scoring three times and the Serie A side have not been impressed with their former striker.

Milan believed to be paying around £70,000 per week of his £90,000-per-week salary and Milan are not keen to burden themselves with that financial package for a player who has scored just once in Serie A.

Last week Milan CEO Adriano Galliani said: “We really like Mario, but he has to convince us to earn a permanent deal.”

While, the now departed head coach Sinisa Mihajlovic last month admitted: “I think his physical condition is good, but psychologically he’s not quite there yet. He needs to improve mentally, but that has always been his problem.”

Those comments alone will have alerted Liverpool to the fact that Balotelli’s future is unlikely to remain in Italy and, according to the Daily Mail they are desperate to move on the former Manchester City star before they recommence paying his wages in full this summer

Liverpool is trying to drop the wild child. Mario is like, "fuck it, I'm still getting paid like a boss."

China is rumoured to be a viable destination for Balotelli – with many European clubs put off by his tarnished reputation and the fact that he has scored just eight goals in two seasons.

Chinese Super League club Jiangsu Suning are believed to hold an interest in signing Balotelli, with reports claiming they are willing to offer him £230,000 a week.

Jurgen Klopp has said he will make a decision on the striker’s future in the summer, but he is unlikely to want the player at Anfield and Liverpool may have to pay up Balotelli’s remaining 12 months on his contract.

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351. "£230,000 a week"
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352. "Mario terrorizing the French..of course they go low:"
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How do you say Cracka in French....

http://www.si.com/planet-futbol/2017/01/21/mario-balotelli-racial-abuse-bastia-nice

French league responds after Mario Balotelli alleges racial abuse

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Saturday January 21st, 2017
PARIS (AP) — The French league will open an investigation after Nice striker Mario Balotelli spoke out against Bastia fans he said made monkey noises during a match on Friday night.

In a brief statement Saturday afternoon, the French League said it "deplored all of the incidents" that happened on Friday. Before the match, Nice's team bus had been pelted by stones as it arrived at the stadium.

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The LFP's disciplinary committee will start looking into the matters when it convenes on Thursday and once it has received further information from officials and both clubs.

Balotelli wrote a message on his Instagram and Twitter pages earlier on Saturday, describing the abuse he heard during the 1-1 draw at the 20,000-capacity Armand Cesari stadium in Corsica and complaining that the French league had not acted swiftly enough.


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"Is it normal that Bastia supporters make monkey noise (and) 'uh' 'uh' for the whole game and no one of the 'commissions discipline' say nothing?" Balotelli wrote, referencing the French league's disciplinary committee. "So is racism legal in France? Or only in Bastia? Football is an amazing sport. Those people like Bastia supporters make it horrible!"

Balotelli, 26, the son of Ghanaian immigrants to Italy, concluded his post by writing in French that what happened was "une vrai honte," or a total disgrace.

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Nice's official Twitter account shared Balotelli's message. On its website, the French Riviera club threw its support behind Balotelli.


"Nice, which already had stones thrown at its bus before the game, is outraged by what happened to its players on Friday night, and in particular to Mario Balotelli," a statement read.

Bastia did not immediately respond to an email from the AP seeking a response to Balotelli's claim.


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Balotelli joined from Liverpool on a free transfer in August and has scored eight league goals in 10 games to help Nice challenge for the title.

He did not say in his message whether or not he had informed referee Clement Turpin, who had the authority to stop the game, of the crowd's actions. Commentators from broadcaster Canal Plus, which covered the game, made no mention of any racist abuse during the match.

In May 2013, when playing for Italian side AC Milan, Balotelli was subject to racist abuse from visiting Roma fans, causing the Serie A game to be briefly halted by the referee during the second half after warnings to stop the abuse were made throughout the stadium. Massimiliano Allegri, Milan's coach at the time, made stinging comments against those who had racially abused Balotelli.

Bastia was docked two points by the LFP in the 2007-08 season after its fans racially abused Burkina Faso forward Boubacar Kebe by holding up a banner during a second-division home game against Libourne. The kickoff was delayed by a few minutes until the banner aimed at Kebe was removed.

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His mental strength is incredible.

  

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http://www.goal.com/en-us/news/23362/mario-balotelli/2017/04/29/35050872/balotelli-has-nothing-to-prove-hes-a-world-star-belhanda


The former Manchester City, Liverpool and AC Milan striker has put a forgettable period of his career behind him to return to form in French football
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Younes Belhanda says Nice team-mate Mario Balotelli is a “world star” and has “nothing to prove” despite flopping at Liverpool.

The enigmatic Italy international endured a forgettable second spell in the Premier League at Anfield, having previously tasted title success at Manchester City.

Fever ruins Balotelli's title dreams

The Reds allowed him to head to France as a free agent in the summer of 2016, and the 26-year-old has been rejuvenated in Ligue 1.

There have still been issues for the flamboyant frontman, including three red cards, but he has netted 15 times in all competitions – his best return since the 2013-14 campaign at Milan.

“He is a world star and is recognised everywhere,” Belhanda told Goal on a man who has helped to raise Nice’s profile and spark a surprise title challenge.


“When you have Mario Balotelli coming to OGC Nice, that’s a big thing!

“He can unlock a situation at any time. We have seen him throughout the season when we are stuck at 1-1 or 0-0, he has managed to get a goal. He got a double against Lille, for example.

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“I came here to play football and have fun. I had nothing to prove at all. We have had a great season and it is not over.

“It's the same for Mario. I do not think he came here to raise his game, he does not have anything to prove, but he needed time to play and that's how he should be viewed.”

While Balotelli has dominated the headlines this season, Belhanda has impressed during a loan spell from Dynamo Kiev.

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>including three red cards

  

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Jun 6, 2017 9:42:09 AM

The 26-year-old striker is looking for a new club after leaving Nice and his agent has boosted links to the Bundesliga when he turned up at the club

Mario Balotelli will be a Borussia Dortmund player next season, if Mino Raiola's comments upon arriving at the club are to be believed.

Bosz out to prove himself at BVB after Ajax heroics

As journalists gathered around Dortmund awaiting the arrival of new coach Peter Bosz from Ajax, they were surprised to see Raiola turn up.

The agent recently stated the Bundesliga club and Marseille were interested in former Manchester City striker Balotelli, and told the media a deal was certain.

"Yes," Raiola said when asked if he was at at the club to discuss the 26-year-old Italian. "Balotelli will play for Dortmund."


The Dutchman's comments have left many confused as to whether he was serious, as he could have been visiting Dortmund to negotiate for one of his youth players.

Balotelli is looking for a new club after spending a season with Nice in Ligue 1, scoring 17 goals in 28 appearances in all competition.

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357. "When Mario gets real service:"
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back in the day for Italy:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBMqMFa36cY

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oh boy what a mercurial frontline there.

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>oh boy what a mercurial frontline there.

For as fast as the forwards were, that midfield wasn't going to catch anyone.

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361. "Easily the best Azzuri squad since '06"
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Which speaks to how good La Roja was, because they eviscerated them in the final.

Fantantonio was the unsung hero of that squad tho. That move he put on Hummels was Zidanesque.

  

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http://www.espnfc.us/uefa-europa-league/story/3281975/mario-balotelli-brace-puts-nice-in-europa-league-knockouts

Mario Balotelli scored twice as Nice qualified for the Europa League round of 32 by beating Zulte Waregem 3-1 on Thursday.

Balotelli continued his fine form in the competition with his brace, before later efforts from Brian Hamalainen and Adrien Aoutsa cancelled each other out.

In a perfect start, Balotelli converted from the penalty spot, sending goalkeeper Louis Bostyn the wrong way.

The striker made it 2-0 from close range in the 31st to put the hosts in control with his fourth goal in five Europa League games this season.

Tameze added a late goal for Nice, while Hamalainen scored the consolation goal for Waregem.

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363. "The last days at Man City:"
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http://www.goal.com/en-au/news/balotellis-world-at-man-city-smashing-plasma-tvs-handing-out/1to4b7b6g644q146xz8vztukp5

Les Chapman, a former kit man at the Premier League club, has lifted the lid on the enigmatic Italian's antics, and those of ex-boss Roberto Mancini

Mario Balotelli smashed a plasma TV after being sent off and left a collection of parking tickets in his locker when departing Manchester City, Les Chapman has revealed.

A former kit man at the Premier League club has lifted the lid on the antics of an enigmatic striker who spent two-and-a-half years at the Etihad Stadium.

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Balotelli’s misdemeanours throughout his colourful career are legendary, with the 27-year-old never far from the headlines.

That was certainly the case during his time in England, with Chapman – who made the famous ‘Why Always Me’ t-shirt displayed against Manchester United in October 2011 – left bemused by most of the Italian’s behaviour.

He told the Daily Mail on Balotelli: “He was a complete one-off, the most unpredictable man on the planet. When he got sent off at Arsenal he threw his boot through the plasma TV in the dressing-room!

“But he was bright, he wasn't stupid, and he was very generous. He would go into a garage and pay for everyone's petrol or give a homeless guy a wad of cash.

“Then he used to wonder why his car was impounded 27 times… because it was painted in camouflage and he parked it on double yellows outside San Carlo restaurant in the middle of Manchester every day.

“I opened his locker after he left and all his parking tickets just fell out!”

Among those Balotelli clashed with during his time at City was former manager Roberto Mancini – a coach he also worked with at Serie A giants Inter.

Chapman believes falling outs were inevitable, with a Premier League title-winning boss a difficult man to work with.

He added on Mancini: “We won the Premier League and FA Cup and he is a legend to the fans, I understand that, but he was too confrontational. He was irrational.

“I saw him fall out with Joe Hart, Joleon Lescott, Samir Nasri, Edin Dzeko, Vincent Kompany, Carlos Tevez… when Manuel Pellegrini came in it was the opposite, he actually spoke to you and shook your hand.”

Balotelli left City to join AC Milan in January 2013, before returning to England with Liverpool in the summer of 2014.

A forgettable spell at Anfield followed, but he has rebuilt his career and reputation in France with Nice.

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https://www.football-italia.net/119251/balotelli-ive-given-love

Mario Balotelli described how he has matured and learned to accept his complicated extended family. “I’ve given up on love now.”

The forward is now 27 years old and entering a new stage of his life, both on and off the field.

“It’s true, I have matured and it shows. It’s only natural, as I’m getting older and I have two children. I have more responsibility and live a more relaxed lifestyle. I’m happy at home and with my kids,” the Nice striker told La Gazzetta dello Sport’s Sportweek magazine.

“I see Pia (his daughter by former partner Raffaella Fico) at least once a month for four or five days, as she comes to stay with me. Lion (his son) was in my home until December. I never had a stable relationship with his mother Clelia and we weren’t planning to have a child, but he arrived and I took my responsibility, because children must never pay the price for what adults do.

“Lion is fantastic. I told her: stay at my home, I want to raise him along with you, even if it wasn’t an act of love to create this baby and we weren’t planning on a family, we are trying to go forward on a united front.

“We managed for a while, now the child is in Switzerland with his mother. He is only seven months old and it’s right like that, but I do visit him often.

“I would love for Lion to grow up and become a football player! I can’t wait for him to grow up so he can watch me play. It’ll be the final years of my career by then, but at least he’ll be happy. At that point he’ll definitely want to play football.

“With Raffaella we did try to have a child and didn’t manage it, then she got pregnant and by the time I found out, we had already broken up. It was unexpected, so at the start I reacted in an odd way… (ndr, Balotelli demanded a paternity test before seeing the baby or recognising it was his).

“Now things are going well, we speak regularly. Obviously, Pia keeps trying to push her parents to get together, but I tell her that Mummy and Daddy care for her and have a good rapport between them, but love is another thing and one day she’ll understand that.

“I’ve given up on love now. It’s difficult to find real love. I might give off the vibe of someone who just wants to have fun, and in part that’s true because I am still young, but in a woman I’m looking for respect, class, certain values: it’s not easy… I am looking for a woman who allows me to walk around with my head held high at having her by my side.

“Considering my profession, it’s tough to meet someone like that. This is why I said enough. My mother is fine, my biological parents Thomas and Rose are healthy, so that’s all that matters to me. The rest will happen by itself, if it happens.”

Balotelli had many health problems when he was born and since the age of two has been adopted by the Balotelli family in Brescia, but revealed he is finally creating a bond with his blood family too.

“When I say that I have matured, I also mean accepting my biological parents as parents. I made so many steps forward that people don’t know about, but they made me stronger and more mature. I’ve had a good rapport with my biological parents for the last three to four years now. They’ve visited me and spent time with Pia… I learned to love them.

“The past is the past, Silva is my Mother and nothing will change that, but now there is also Rose, who gave birth to me, and Thomas too. I realised they are important to me, just as I am important to them.

“I think the kind of person I really am will only emerge after I have stopped playing. They can forget Mario the player, that doesn’t interest me. Football is my life because I have such joy in playing the game, but the day I don’t have fun anymore, that’s when all is left is me.”

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Mario Balotelli‘s career has been anything but routine, however, the veteran striker has regained his confidence in Ligue 1 and revitalized a career that once looked like it was headed for absolute stardom.



The 27-year-old was recalled to Italy’s national team squad on Saturday for the first time since the 2014 World Cup in Brazil, courtesy of new Azzurri manager Roberto Mancini.

Mancini and Balotelli has a long-standing relationship, after the two first connected at Inter Milan and then Manchester City.

The Nice striker has re-captured his form in France over the past two seasons, scoring 43 goals in all competitions during that span.

With Italy not qualified for this summer’s World Cup, Mancini and Co. have the opportunity to explore new players, and in Balotelli’s case, revisit old ones.

The Azzurri will take on Saudi Arabia on May 28, before meeting France and the Netherlands on June 1 and June 4, respectively.

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366. "Wishing this dude all the best...."
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Would love to see this redemption story

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367. "He is settling into fatherhood...I think next couple years will be great"
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368. "Mancini brings him back to the Azzuri for Nations League"
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Milan (AFP) - Italy coach Roberto Mancini on Saturday named a 31-man squad which included Nice striker Mario Balotelli and five new players including Monaco teenager Pietro Pellegri to face Poland and Portugal in the UEFA Nations League tournament.

The games against Poland in Bologna on Friday, September 7 and Portugal in Lisbon on September 10 will be Mancini's first official matches in charge of the Azzurri, who failed to qualify for the World Cup.

The former Inter Milan and Manchester City coach, who took over last May, had already called up Balotelli for three friendlies in June.

But it will be the first call-up for 17-year-old Pellegri, who scored his first Ligue 1 goal on August 26 in a 2-1 defeat by his team Monaco to Bordeaux.

Pellegri started his career in Genoa and in December 2016 became the youngest player to debut in Serie A.

Mancini also handed maiden call-ups to Cagliari goalkeeper Alessio Cragno, defenders Manuel Lazzari (Spal) and Cristiano Biraghi (Fiorentina) and Roma midfielder Nicolo Zaniolo.

Juventus defender Giorgio Chiellini returns to the squad for the first time since Italy's World Cup play-off defeat to Sweden last November.

Players will arrive at the national team's Coverciano training ground outside Florence to begin work on Monday morning.

Italy squad

Goalkeepers: Gianluigi Donnarumma (AC Milan), Alessio Cragno (Cagliari), Mattia Perin (Juventus), Salvatore Sirigu (Torino);

Defenders: Cristiano Biraghi (Fiorentina), Leonardo Bonucci (Juventus), Mattia Caldara (AC Milan), Giorgio Chiellini (Juventus), Domenico Criscito (Genoa), Emerson Palmieri Dos Santos (Chelsea/ENG), Manuel Lazzari (Spal), Alessio Romagnoli (AC Milan), Daniele Rugani (Juventus), Davide Zappacosta (Chelsea/ENG)

Midfielders: Nicolo Barella (Cagliari), Marco Benassi (Fiorentina), Bryan Cristante (Roma), Roberto Gagliardini (Inter), Jorginho (Chelsea/ENG), Lorenzo Pellegrini (Roma), Nicolo Zaniolo (Roma);

Forwards: Mario Balotelli (Nice/FRA), Andrea Belotti (Torino), Domenico Berardi (Sassuolo), Federico Bernardeschi (Juventus), Giacomo Bonaventura (AC Milan), Federico Chiesa (Fiorentina), Ciro Immobile (Lazio), Lorenzo Insigne (Napoli), Pietro Pellegri (Monaco/FRA), Simone Zaza (Torino).

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369. "Back to the EPL???? (swipe):"
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https://www.hitc.com/en-gb/2019/01/06/paul-merson-comments-on-newcastle-mario-balotelli-rumours/


Paul Merson has sarcastically stated 'who is going to fight harder than him' when responding to rumours that Newcastle United are interested in Mario Balotelli.

The Mirror claimed a few days ago that the 28-year-old could make a shock return to the Premier League as Newcastle consider signing him to pep up their attack.

Italy international Balotelli played for Manchester City during the early years of his career, scoring 30 goals and winning one Premier League title with the club.

Rafa Benitez' side are currently two points above the drop zone and require some fresh impetus during the January transfer window as they aim to end the season in a positive fashion.

Upon hearing the Balotelli and Newcastle rumours, Merson sarcastically mocked the potential transfer as he hinted that Benitez requires players that will work their socks off on the field of play.

"Well who is going to fight harder than him," Merson told Sky Sports' Soccer Saturday programme on 05/01/2019 at 2:55 pm. "He's perfect for a relegation battle, surely, no?"

During his time in England's top flight, Balotelli was not known for his hard-working approach, more so for being a laid-back character, both off the field and on the field.

At this moment in time, he is plying his trade in France under the stewardship of Patrick Vieira at Nice where he has played only 10 Ligue 1 games - he is yet to find the back of the net this term

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what
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https://twitter.com/TazPhalora/status/1102301670950739970
https://twitter.com/goal/status/1102306956386201600

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https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/02/sports/soccer/mario-balotelli-brescia.html

Mario Balotelli’s Italian Homecoming

The soccer star returned to his hometown last summer, and to Italy’s Serie A. The city had changed. But so had he.

By Rory Smith
Jan. 2, 2020

BRESCIA, Italy — No matter where his career has taken him, Mario Balotelli’s home has always been here, in an apartment block sandwiched between a Volvo dealership and the campus of the University of Brescia. The bottom floor is taken up by a bicycle shop, a piadina joint and an interiors showroom. Balotelli has the penthouse.

He bought it in 2012, when he was not just a sporting phenomenon, but a cultural one, too. That was the year he won the Premier League with Manchester City; the year he drove Italy to the final of the European Championship; the year he appeared on the cover of Time magazine.

He could visit only occasionally while he played in England, but when he joined A.C. Milan in 2013, he moved in permanently. To the club’s mild chagrin, Balotelli preferred the hourlong commute from Brescia to the idea of moving to the big city.

It remained his base in the three years he played in France, first at Nice and then, briefly, at Marseille. After games, he would return to the apartment late at night, and then make the 250-mile journey back for the next training session.


Balotelli beat Torino’s Nicolas N’Koulou to the ball at the Mario Rigamonti in November.Credit...Filippo Venezia/ANSA, via Associated Press
The apartment sits at the southern pole of what Carlos Passerini, a Corriere della Sera reporter who has covered the peaks and troughs of Balotelli’s career, has called the forward’s “magic circle.” A couple of miles north is Concesio, the village where he grew up. A mile or so east is the Oratorio del Mompiano, the sports club where he first played soccer, and to which he has always gone back, without fanfare and often without warning, to watch the children who dream of following his path.

And just around the corner, within easy walking distance, is the Stadio Mario Rigamonti, home of Brescia Calcio, his hometown team. Balotelli was not a Brescia fan as a child; he admitted in 2009 that he supported A.C. Milan, his honesty apparently unencumbered by the fact that at the time he was playing for Milan’s fierce city rival, Internazionale.

The stadium, though, has long figured on Balotelli’s horizon. There is a view across Brescia, the whole sweep of the city, from the south-facing balcony of his apartment. His bedroom looks the other way. He can see the stadium’s floodlights from its window.

The Prodigal Who Never Left

Last summer, out of contract after leaving Marseille, Balotelli had three choices. He could venture into the unknown and sign for Flamengo, in Brazil; he could earn an impossible, meaningless fortune in China; or he could take a substantial pay cut — much of his $4.4 million annual salary is dependent on bonuses — and join Brescia.

His mother, Silvia, cried when he told her he was coming home. His father, Franco, died in 2015, but Balotelli said it would have been a “dream” for him to see his son play for Brescia. “As soon as this offer arrived, I didn’t have another thought,” Balotelli said.

Brescia, as a city, seemed to feel the connection, too. It returned Balotelli’s affection. In the time he had been away, Brescia had changed. He remembers countless instances from his youth of feeling like he stood out: the only black player not just on a team, but the whole field. He once told a teacher that he was trying to “wash the color” off his skin; he asked if his “heart was black, too.”

Now, according to Stefano Brasetti, Balotelli’s personal trainer, the city is “proudly multicultural.” Some 19 percent of its inhabitants are extracomunitari, he said — people who have come from outside the European Union, drawn by the wealth and the work available in Lombardy, one of Italy’s richest regions. The province is now home to 156,000 immigrants, and Brescia itself has large communities from Pakistan, India, Senegal, Ghana and Nigeria.

Balotelli returned, then, not only to a city that had always been happy to call him “one of our own,” as one staff member at the Oratorio said, but one that had grown comfortable in its polychrome skin. Now, every team, every field, has black players. He could, at last, feel as if he belonged.

During the summer, as he waited to see what his future held, Balotelli worked out at Brasetti’s gym. Occasionally, to improve his fitness, he would go for runs in the city’s parks with his brother, Enock Barwuah. He was stopped countless times and invited to join local pickup games. He never refused.

“For kids, especially, he is a star,” Brasetti said. “Whenever they come up to him, he dedicates himself to them completely.”

It was not just children. The news conference to announce his signing had to be moved to a hotel, such was the crowd that gathered to see him presented as a Brescia player. The Mario Rigamonti was sold out for his first game; fans had lined up for hours to get tickets.

They were drawn by curiosity, and hope, but mainly they were captivated by the story of the prodigal son, playing out in front of their eyes. “It is not possible to ignore the image of that restless and talented child who looked at the Rigamonti from the pitch of the Oratorio in Mompiano, dreaming of Brescia,” the journalist Stefano Scacchi wrote in La Repubblica.

Balotelli had never really left Brescia, of course. He had always had the apartment, his sanctuary. The city had always been home. His only reservation was that Italian soccer had not always been quite so welcoming.

“I don’t know what sort of championship I will find,” he said on the eve of his return to Serie A. “I hope the episodes that happened years ago will not be repeated.”

The Italian Disease

It is not possible to treat Balotelli’s story as that of simply a soccer player. It is integral to its understanding that he is a black Italian soccer player or, to put it more bluntly, Italian soccer’s black player. He did not make the cover of Time because he was a talented striker; he was featured, instead, because of a cultural significance that had been ascribed to him.

As one friend puts it, in that context, what would success have looked like? Could it have been measured in goals or assists, or was it supposed to be gauged by social change? How many goals would he have had to score, how many trophies would he have had to win, to have met expectations? “He was set a task he hadn’t asked for and that nobody could complete,” the friend said.

In the first few months of his return to Italy this season, it became clear — as Balotelli had feared — that Serie A had not changed at all. The league bounced from one racist incident to another. He was abused in a game at Verona, just as other black players endured racist abuse in Cagliari, Bergamo and Genoa.


Balotelli could not even rely on the support of his own fans. One faction of Brescia ultras — admittedly small, and unabashedly right-wing — released a statement that played down the racism of its Verona counterparts.

A few weeks later, the man who brought him to Brescia, the bombastic club president, Massimo Cellino, responded to a question about how Balotelli was doing by saying: “What can I say? He’s black but he’s trying to lighten himself.” The club later insisted it was a play on words, “a joke said as a paradox,” designed to “protect the player.”

That is the world Balotelli left as a teenager. It is the one he has returned to as an adult. That is the climate in which he has been asked to succeed, in which the tension over who belongs and who does not still lingers. In Serie A, he is still not treated just as a player, but as a black player. He is the bellwether and the test case, co-opted as territory in a culture war. There is always someone to make him feel like it is not his home.

A Life of Whispers

For all the romance of his return to Brescia, for all the city’s warmth toward him, there is still a sense that Balotelli should not be at Brescia. Not yet, anyway. At 17, he was Italian soccer’s great hope: He won the Italian title, and the Champions League, with Inter at 20. By the time he was 22, he was an English champion, too.

Now, at 29, that prodigy should be enjoying the final couple of years of his peak. That he is, instead, embroiled in a desperate bid to avoid relegation with Brescia is proof that his career has not played out as he — or anyone else — expected it to.

There are those who have worked with Balotelli who wonder if that is because the hype around him has always outstripped his talent. The oscillations of his career — he has scored more than 10 goals in consecutive seasons only twice: during his first spell at Milan, and then at Nice — are indicative of either a player who never fulfilled his potential or one who had the scale of his potential overstated.

One former coach wondered if Balotelli suffered from being earmarked for stardom from such a young age. “Goals always came easy to him,” he said. “He never had to worry about doing everything else, the defending, the tracking, the movement.” Some wonder if perhaps the desire to see him as a totem of change all those years ago created unrealistic expectations; perhaps he was always merely just a good, slightly fitful, forward, rather than Italian soccer’s next sensation; perhaps we saw in him something that he never could be.

He is still, occasionally, mentioned as a prospective member of Italy’s squad for next summer’s European Championship, but just as often his name comes up as a transfer target, headed to Serbia, to Major League Soccer, to anyplace but Brescia. Balotelli is still box office, still click bait, still a source of fascination and intrigue. He has an ability to attract suitors at least in part because he has an ability to sell newspapers. He is a name, a brand, a star, regardless of what he does on the field.

He still has the apartment, though, and he still has Brescia. He is “serene” in the city, one family member said. Money, for him, is a secondary concern. He has a lifetime deal with Puma, his apparel sponsor, signed at the height of his fame, that ensures his income even after he retires. What matters — to the player, at least; his representatives are a different matter — is that he is happy.

He is delighted to be eating home-cooked food every night. The club sends Silvia a menu every week so she can make sure her son is eating the same meals at her home in Concesio as his teammates are at theirs.

And whenever they can, Balotelli and his friends will head into central Brescia in the evening. They will take a leisurely passeggiata through the city’s beautiful piazzas, wandering its quiet, cobbled streets.

They often stop at Piazzale Arnaldo, a long, thin piazza where they have a favorite spot on the corner: Vita is a restaurant, cocktail bar and club rolled into one. Balotelli and his friends do not ask for special treatment there. They take a table on the floor with everyone else, and deal with the furtive glances and the requests for selfies.

Just outside is a statue of the man after whom the square is named: Arnaldo da Brescia, a 12th-century enemy of the state, an inveterate challenger of orthodoxy and authority. He was exiled three times. Eventually, he was captured, hanged and burned. His ashes were thrown into the Tiber, in case he became a martyr. In Brescia, they built him a monument.

  

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376. "a true cult figure of the sport"
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377. "Lost and unsigned, is this it for Super Mario?"
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https://sportsfinding.com/the-limbo-of-balotelli/60586/

In 2010, Mario Balotelli won the Golden Boy And, at 20 years of age, despite the first outbreaks of controversy at Inter Milan that made him sign for City, he had the future in his hands. In 2020, history has not turned out to be as I pointed out. Outside Brescia after the team's relegation to Serie B was consummated and multiple controversies with the club's noble zone, the controversial striker, at 30, he does not find an accommodation and is mired in his own particular limbo.


At the beginning of the summer the Romanian press echoed his possible signing for Cluj, something that was not beyond the rumor. The following two options incorporated into the summer rumor mill, Besiktas and Genoahave not crystallized either. Sergen Yalcin, coach of the Turkish team, at a press conference nipped the possible incorporation of Super Mario: “I have not given my consent to the signing of Mario Balotelli, there are too many questions around him and its cost is very high (there was talk of an offer of a salary of two million annually). It is a risk that we cannot afford, “he declared.


And if the Besiktas door was closed by the coach himself, the new Genoa sports director, Daniele Faggiano, closed the Genoese. “It is not a name that we have considered. We value other options. Balotelli is an excellent player, but he is not one of the players we are considering.”Faggiano acknowledged at the press conference prior to his team's clash against Crotone this weekend.


The price of our protagonist has only decreased, surrounded by a controversy that has starred in more headlines than his performances on the pitch. Transfermarkt It gave it a market value in 2012 of 32 million euros, its highest peak, at just 22 years old. Now, it doesn't go beyond 3 million. In Nice he resurfaced, however, he scored 26 goals in 2017-18, a fact that earned him the signing for Marseille. But after not shining in the Vélodrome, last season's 5 goals in Serie A with Brescia, accompanied by acts of indiscipline (they even banned him from training), you are not helping in the search for your umpteenth last chance.

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378. "Back in business....but where:"
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https://www.goal.com/en-us/amp/news/ex-man-city-liverpool-striker-balotelli-to-sign-for-a-new/1qcg9wixcaika1d0y17z604bqz

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379. "oh man please come to MLS"
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I'd love to see him in person

(you know - in theory)

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380. "RE: don't call it a come back....yet"
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https://amp.marca.com/en/football/premier-league/2020/11/23/5fbc0b0b22601dd4038b4608.html

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381. "Free transfer to Monza ...next stop, Brazil or MLS???"
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https://www.espn.com/soccer/soccer-transfers/story/4256220/ex-man-cityliverpool-forward-balotelli-joins-serie-b-monza-on-free-transfer

Mario Balotelli has joined Italian Serie B side Monza on a free transfer.

The Italian striker has been without a team since leaving relegated Brescia at the end of the 2019-20 campaign.

- Serie A on ESPN+: Stream LIVE games and replays (U.S. only)

Ambitious Monza were promoted as Serie C champions last season and are owned by former AC Milan and Italian national Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, who signed Balotelli twice for the Rossoneri.

They sit ninth in Serie B and are managed by former Milan midfielder and boss Cristian Brocchi. Among his teammates at Monza, Balotelli will find Kevin-Prince Boateng and Gabriel Paletta, who he played alongside at Milan.

Balotelli started his career at Inter Milan, where he won the the Serie A title three years in a row as well as the Coppa Italia and Champions League in 2010 as part of the Treble. He also won the Golden Boy award as Europe's best young player that year.

That summer, he joined Manchester City and won the FA Cup and Premier League title before joining Milan and returning to the Premier League with Liverpool.

Following a season at Anfield, he once again joined Milan on loan before he moved to Nice in 2016. Following a short stint at Marseille, he returned to Italy with hometown club Brescia, but could not stop them from being relegated.

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382. "Scored four minutes into his debut with his new team"
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383. "I had no idea Kevin Prince Boateng was still playing:"
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>https://www.goal.com/en-us/amp/news/balotelli-scores-debut-serie-b-monza/fqn0whib4idx11wbk2hz2qyig

  

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384. "Crazy, right?"
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those two together, if they are fit...might actually get that squad promoted....if they don't get chased out the city first.

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385. "This thread is 10 years old"
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386. "it is my bonzai tree."
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387. "RE: it is my bonzai tree."
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XoD

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388. "Reset my password just to say hello to Mario"
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389. "RE: Reset my password just to say hello to Mario"
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Good to see you back! You know Mario is still doing Mario things...hopefully he can make it through this campaign and jump back to the PL or La Liga.

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390. "hell yeah"
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391. "Monza spell could help Balotelli rediscover a lost spark"
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https://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/SportsArchive/Monza-spell-could-help-Balotelli-rediscover-a-lost-spark-1279540

In the frantic, frenetic career of Mario Balotelli, Euro 2012 was the high point.

Having just helped Manchester City to the most dramatic of Premier League titles – providing his only assist for the club to set up "Aguerooooo" – he was the outstanding forward in Poland and Ukraine.

At the tournament, he super-charged an Italian side which had flopped at the World Cup two years earlier as reigning champions. They outplayed new world kings Spain in the opening group match, before beating Croatia and Republic of Ireland to reach the knock-outs.



After beating England on penalties having totally outplayed the Three Lions in the quarter-finals, Italy faced Germany in the semis, where Balotelli truly came alive. He scored twice in the first half of a 2-1 win, Germany's goal being a last-minute consolation penalty.

The second goal was one of his most iconic. Riccardo Montolivo lofted a simple ball over the sluggish German defence, and Balotelli, confidence visibly surging through him, took a touch and slammed the ball past Manuel Neuer. He ripped off his shirt in celebration and glared at all around him. This was his stage, and he had performed.

"This was the greatest night of my life and I hope Sunday will be better," Balotelli said afterwards.

"At the end of the game, I went to my mother – that was the best moment. I told her these goals were for her. I waited a long time for this moment, especially as my mother is not young anymore and can't travel far, so I had to make her happy when she came all the way here. My father will be in Kiev for the final too."

Sunday was not better. Spain had ominously improved, and crushed Italy 4-0 in the final. For Balotelli, it was largely downhill from there.

Fast-forward eight and a half years, and Balotelli was joining Serie B side Monza in December 2020. He had been without a club since leaving Brescia in July, having repeatedly failed to turn up to training as they were relegated from Serie A.

His travails at Inter, Manchester City, AC Milan and Liverpool – among others – are well documented, from fireworks in the bathroom to scoring deliberate own goals in training. He had been training with Serie D club Franciacorta when Monza came calling.

Balotelli penned a contract until the end of the season, with an option to extend if Monza earned promotion to the top flight for the first time in their 109-year history. It was the ninth club of his career.

Signing with ambitious Monza, Balotelli was reunited with former AC Milan president Silvio Berlusconi and CEO Adriano Galliani, now in charge at a club from a city far more associated with motor racing than football.

Galliani claimed Balotelli turned down a lucrative move to Vasco da Gama in Brazil, and agent Mino Raiola took no commission.

The forward joined Monza when they were eighth in Serie B after nine matches, nine points off leaders Salernitana, but he was confident.

“I thank the president Berlusconi and Adriano Galliani for this opportunity," he said. "I will do everything to help Monza reach Serie A."

Galliani, meanwhile, made no bones about where Balotelli was in his career, and in being thrown a life-raft by his former friends.

He told Gazzetta dello Sport: “I gave him a proper talking to, and told him this is truly the last, absolutely last, completely the last chance.

“I do love Mario, he’s a player with the kind of technical and physical qualities that should’ve allowed him do so much more with his career. There were flashes of exceptional quality and I can’t understand why he can’t get even better. After all, he is only 30 years old.”

"Balotelli can be fundamental for Monza," Raiola said. "His potential is undisputed but he is behind in his preparations and we will do everything we can to get him in top condition."

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392. "lol what a country"
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>AC Milan president Silvio Berlusconi

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393. "the precursor to Trump. "
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394. "The GOD took his talents to Turkey"
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The Adana Demirspor new signing said 'Mario is crazy' is media invention, described himself as 'a normal person, normal guy' who likes to win
Italian striker Mario Balotelli’s footballing skills were never under question but his on and the off the field antics, disregard for authority, clubs and coaches have made him a divisive figure in world football.

But it was all invented and perpetrated by the media, claimed Balotelli, who has joined newly promoted Turkish Süper Lig side, Adana Demirspor.

"The thing is, 'Mario is crazy' is just something that the newspapers made up over the years. I see myself as a normal person. I am not crazy at all," Balotelli said.

"I just enjoy (myself) sometimes. (For the media) every footballer needs to be like soldiers."

The former Manchester City and Inter Milan forward said this image was created by the newspapers.

Balotelli insisted he was a very "normal person and normal guy" who loves to win, in a message to the Turkish club's supporters.

Nicknamed "Super Mario" for his spectacular moves and skills on the pitch, Balotelli played for several football powerhouses like Manchester City, Liverpool, AC Milan and its archrival Inter, as well as France's Nice and Olympique Marseille.

Balotelli won the 2010 UEFA Champions League with Inter and three consecutive Italian Serie A titles in 2008-2010.

He also claimed the 2012 English Premier League title with Manchester City, which was a long-awaited title for the Manchester club.

Balotelli also represented the Italian national team, helping the Azzurri reach the UEFA Euro 2012 final. He also played for his nation in the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil.

Based in southeastern Turkey, Adana Demirspor clinched the TFF 1. Lig title last season to earn promotion to the top-tier Süper Lig.

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395. "Mario scores, mocks opposing manager who mocked him 8 years ago...."
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You know you are cooking with oil when your goal celebration is called "absolute shithousery"


https://www.sportbible.com/football/balotelli-celebrates-in-front-of-manager-who-called-him-brainless-20210921.amp.html



"Balotelli has wound up and annoyed plenty of people in the past, from his own managers, to his own fans, to fans of the opposition, no one has been safe from the striker's mischiefs.

In 2013 he had one of his most famous moments of peak Balotelli, whilst playing for Manchester City in a pre season game on a tour to the US.

The Italian striker bizarrely decided to backheel the ball when running through on goal, one-on-one with the keeper, against LA Galaxy, and missed his 'shot,' being taken off immediately after.

Former Turkey player Sergen Yalcin was working as a pundit at the time and described the City forward as 'brainless.'

Fast forward to present day and, playing for Adana Demirspor, Balotelli came up against Besiktas, now managed by Yalcin, on Tuesday night.

Besiktas went 3-0 up but, after Mattias Vargas made it 3-1, Balotelli put his side back in with a huge chance of earning a point when he scored in the 79th minute. He celebrated by running over to the opposition bench and pointing right at his brain!"

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396. "Pic of our guy "
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397. "he's still at it! insane goal in the turkish league"
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398. "yo"
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399. "Video game shit. LOL. "
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400. "Team number eleven for our guy"
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401. "Our guy is up for Goal of the Year with Mbappe and Richarlson:"
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https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/balotelli-mbappe-richarlison-puskas-award-28941276

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402. "Super Mario in the booth with Rio Ferdinand (LOL) for CL Final!"
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https://www.football365.com/news/balotelli-cringetastic-snubs-jake-humphrey-bt-sport-curtain-call


“How do I leave BT Sport just as Mario Balotelli arrives?” asked Jake Humphrey. We join the departing host in wishing this union had happened far earlier.

Balotelli joined Humphrey, Rio Ferdinand and Cesc Fabregas for the Champions League final on Saturday, with the intention of the Italian providing a unique insight having played for both Inter Milan and Manchester City, though the broadcaster perhaps feels it didn’t quite get its money’s worth.

Balotelli – who won four Serie A titles and a Champions League at Inter and the Premier League with City – refused to be drawn on who he was rooting for in Istanbul.

Making his last appearance working for BT, Humphrey asked Balotelli: “Mario this is a tough one for you, who’s going to do it?

And the Sion striker replied: “No comment,” to much laughter.

Humphrey then joked: “Hold on, we paid thousands of pounds for this guy and his final comment is ‘no comment’?

“How do I leave BT Sport just as Mario Balotelli arrives, there’s something not right about that.”

That was just one of a few wonderfully cringe-worthy exchanges between the pair, with Balotelli also blanking Humphrey as the host recalled how he had asked the mercurial striker to join his side, Norwich City, over the summer.

Balotelli did though offer some insight when asked about Inter Milan’s tactical set-up and striker Lautaro Martinez. “The Italian game is more defensive. If I was Inter, I would let City play and try to counter attack,” he said.

“I love the fact that he (Martinez) battles, every ball he has is like a battle, but at the same time he has very good technique. He reminds me a little bit of Tevez, but he is a huge quality player. He can play with any player on his side. He can play even by himself, I think.”


Balotelli and Ferdinand shared a laugh earlier in the broadcast when reminded of their falling out in a Manchester derby in 2011.

Ferdinand took issue with Balotelli celebrating City’s victory in front of the United fans.

Ferdinand explained: “Mario was celebrating after the game in front of our fans and I took offence and wasn’t happy. He was cool under pressure.”

Balotelli responded: “I was celebrating towards their fans and understand why they got angry. It happened on the pitch and finished on the pitch.”

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403. "No more Swiss Cheese for Mario..may end up in the desert. "
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Mario Balotelli banished from training as Liverpool flop touted for big-money transfer
Former Manchester City and Liverpool forward Mario Balotelli has played for 10 clubs in his professional career and now may be on the move again on deadline day.

Mario Balotelli may be asking 'Why still me?' today with current club FC Sion banishing the striker from first-team training in a bid to move him out the door.

The much travelled striker joined the Swiss side on a £2 million deal rom Turkish club Adana Demirspor last summer, but scored just six times as they were relegated from the Super League. And despite having a year left on his current deal, the club have seemingly already lost patience with the man initially billed as their biggest ever signing.

Indeed, the controversial Italian has not featured at all for the side in the 2023/24 campaign, and is now almost certain to make yet another career move. The former Man City and Liverpool star has already represented 10 clubs in his professional career, plying his trade in five different countries.

FC Sion Sporting Director Barth Constantin has previously fallen out with Balotelli, and has now delivered a candid update on the future of the 33-year-old. And it seems he could be the latest big name to head to the Middle East, following a summer of revolution in the Saudi Pro League.

"There has been interest in Mario Balotelli from a Saudi club, but nothing concrete," Constantin told reporters. "The Saudi transfer window will close later than the one in Europe, so we will see what happens. But for the time being Mario is training at our Riddes base, separately from the first-team squad."

And the club official vowed that they would find a 'solution to the problem'. It follows his namesake and FC Sion President Christian Constantin publicly laying into the former Premier League and FA Cup winner during last season.

In a scathing rant to Swiss magazine L'Illustre, he said: "Mario has not repaid the confidence we placed in him. Neither has he rewarded us for the big financial efforts we made for him.

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404. "Mario set poor Micah up when he went to La Viola"
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405. "TESTA DI CAZZO! LMAO!!!!!"
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