The athlete said that there was a lot of wrong information in their interviews that affected the reputation of Balotelli. Balotelli also told that in his childhood he regularly faced racism. If anything was stolen at the school, Mario was unreasonably considered to be the culprit.
Children next door refused to play with him because of different skin color. At the age of 18, the young man received a passport, as well as Italian citizenship, but it did not change the attitude of people. He found salvation in football. The boy played all his free time. At the age of seven, he joined San Bartolomeo club, and for the next decade, he managed to play in five youth clubs.
In the last two clubs Lumezzane and Inter he also played for the first team. He made his professional debut at the age of In April , he first appeared on the field for Lumezzane first team against Padova in a Serie C1 league match. At the end of the season, Balotelli played in one more game, and in the summer he decided to transfer to another club. He had an unsuccessful trial with Barcelona. Later, when the forward already played for Manchester City, reporters asked him about the possible transfer to the Catalans.
Mario whipped out a reply that he was not going to "play with girls. The striker spent the second season in Inter youth team, and since he started to play for the Nerazzurri first team. To show his abilities, Marion featured in a summer friendly match against Sheffield United. Balotelli scored two goals, and the footballer began to play for Inter in Serie A. However, Internazionale coach Roberto Mancini allowed the striker to go on the field only in December.
Nerazzurri defeated Cagliari in the match of the national tournament. But Mario scored the first goal for the team as well as the second in the game against Reggina a few days later. The next two goals in a Coppa Italia match against Juventus ensured the participation of Inter in the semifinals of the tournament. However, the team could not win the main trophy. But during the same period, Mario contributed to Inter victory in Serie A, and later the team won the Supercoppa Italiana.
Mario played in twice as many games in Serie A during the next season, and he scored eight goals in comparison with three goals in the previous season. Internazionale defended the title. The team could not win other tournaments, and Mancini left the club.
Jose Mourinho coached it. The striker showed the same excellent performance, and the new coach improved the skills of the rest of the team. In , Mario made his debut for the Italian national team.
Earlier, the football player played in youth competitions. He was the first black football player in the national team, and he helped them reach the final of the European tournament, where Spain won the trophy.
However, the forward was named the top-scorer in the championship. Mancini became a coach of Manchester City and persuaded the management of the club for a transfer. In the summer of , Balotelli moved to the UK. The duo dated between and within the period had a daughter together called Pia born on 5th December However, it took two years before a positive result of a DNA test made Balotelli accepted the paternity of his daughter.
The closest which the center-forward ever got to commitment was his engagement to his ex-Belgian girlfriend, Fanny Neguesha in They went separate ways in Balotelli is at the time of writing having a relationship with his Swiss girlfriend Clelia who bore him his first son Lion born September Balotelli hails from a poor biological family background. We bring you factual details about his biological parents, foster parents, and siblings.
He is a Ghanian immigrant who settled in Italy a few years before Balotelli was born. However Balotelli believes his parents abandoned him, thus he has severed ties with his biological family.
She was a home keeper at the time of Balotelli birth and went on to work as a cleaner years later. Rose is focused on building a relationship with Balotelli whom she believes was turned against his biological relatives by his foster parents.
Francesco Balotelli was the foster dad of the football genius. He was a rich and influential Italian who used his wealth and connections in positioning Balotelli on the path of greatness.
Francesco lived long to see Balotelli achieve great heights in football before passing away in July after a long-term illness. Silvia Balotelli is the foster mother of the footballer. So great is their bond and understanding of each other that Balotelli dedicated to her the two great goals he scored for France against Italy during the semifinals of Euro to her. Balotelli has three siblings whom he grew up visiting at Brescia, Italy.
Seeing him reduced to tears on the Milan bench recently offered yet another insight into his complex character, much of which can be understood by learning how he made it so far. Born in Palermo — on the Italian island of Sicily — in August , his Ghanaian immigrant parents moved north to Brescia almost immediately.
Struggling with health issues and forced to live in desolate conditions, the Italian social services recommended young Mario was fostered. Aged just three, he was informally adopted by Francesco and Silvio Balotelli, a Jewish couple from Concesio, a small town at the foot of Mount Spina.
At first, he only spent a few days a week with them, but soon he adopted their surname and his stay became permanent. Shortly after his 11th birthday, his prodigious and precocious footballing talents saw him sign for local side AC Lumezzane. Four short years later —after failing to impress during a trial at Barcelona— he would make his first team debut for the Rossoblu on April 2, That game, in the third tier against Padova, was enough to convince the bigger clubs to once again come calling.
He would announce himself to a national audience by scoring two vital goals in a Coppa Italia quarter-final against Juventus , helping the Nerazzurri to a away win.
It was here that his reputation for being difficult began however as, in that same month, Jose Mourinho had accused Balotelli of showing a lack of effort in training. The then Inter coach would take a tough stance with the young striker, lambasting him in a press conference via the FIFA website as he said:. I can't accept that from someone who is still a nobody, who hasn't made it yet, who is still a talent with potential.
Balotelli would be dropped again in January, but would soon return, only for opposition fans to begin their chants against him. Heated rivals Juventus have always been a major part of his story, beginning with the "se saltelli, muore Balotelli" if we jump, Balotelli dies chant. It was often in games against other clubs when he wasn't even playing against the Turin side. It began when he played an antagonistic role in a particularly bad-tempered Derby d'Italia draw in April Repeatedly antagonising Juve players, fans and even the match officials with some theatrical reactions, he sparked a brawl involving Thiago Motta, Felipe Melo and the usually calm Gigi Buffon.
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