Mario Balotelli

[AliBobbyJ]

https://www.theguardian.com/footbal...li-melts-hearts-scoring-return-naples-brescia

Lovely article in The Guardian about Mario, his daughter, and playing for Brescia.
His old admirer Mancini gets a mention, too.

 

[lancs blue]

Good to see Mario enjoying his life and his football, he was a key part of ending that 35 years trophy drought.

 

[paulchapo]

You can't help but like the lad. Infuriating and brilliant in equal measures, bloody lazy and selfish at times but great when he applied himself. Mad as a bucket of frogs and in spite of his money and trophies I feel he will one day regret not making more of his undoubted talent. Still the world needs more characters and Mario is certainly one of those!

 

[Uncle Wally One Ball]

You can't help but like the lad. Infuriating and brilliant in equal measures, bloody lazy and selfish at times but great when he applied himself. Mad as a bucket of frogs and in spite of his money and trophies I feel he will one day regret not making more of his undoubted talent. Still the world needs more characters and Mario is certainly one of those!

I found him frustrating as fuck

 

[peoffrey]

Balotelli with Aguero’s professionalism would be a frightening player. Oodles of talent but inconsistent, injury prone, attitude laden and immature.

He arguably helped get Mancini fired. I can’t believe he kept giving him all those chances.

 

[Nightmare Walking]

A heart of gold and a head of putty.

 

[Vienna_70]

He is a striker!

I love Mario. It’s a bloody shame that he didn’t put in the hard work that players need to in order to make it at the very top, because he undoubtedly had the talent to have succeeded, but not the attitude to match.

I really hope he does well at Brescia and I’d love to see him back at Etihad one day.

 

[KS55]

Mad Mario, a great penalty taker.

 

[nixmith2]

Did he only have one assist in the 2011-12 season? or is that a myth?

 

[Keith Moon]

Did he only have one assist in the 2011-12 season? or is that a myth?

True