After
confirming a loan move back to Italian giants AC Milan, this may be super Mario’s
last opportunity to make himself a world beater at the club. Throughout Mario’s
career there has been many controversial moments, at first it was funny, but
now it’s disappointing, with all the potential he had, for me it feels that he’s
throwing his career away, however this literally is last chance saloon.
Mario is no
stranger to controversy, while playing for Inter, Mario went on Italian TV and was
given an AC Milan shirt, a team he supported growing up, and Inter’s fierce cross
city rivals. During his time at Inter, Mario had a run inn with the management,
firstly with Jose Mourinho, who described Mario as unmanageable and secondly Roberto
Mancini, while at Manchester City, who stated that ‘if Mario played with him 10
years ago, he would have punched him in the head every day.’
Another one to make you giggle was when
Balotelli’s mother asked him to go out and get some household essentials; you’d
like to think Mario would come back with say an ironing board or a hoover, nevertheless
Mario being Mario, he didn’t comeback with either of these household items,
Mario came back with a trampoline, two quad bikes a table tennis set and
finally a scalextric set, also balotelli is known for his extravagant fashion.
After Mario’s big money move to Manchester
City, on his way to the training ground, Mario crashed his Audi R8 into a Manchester
City fan who had been a season ticket holder for the last 25 years, after being
breathalysed by the police, they wanted to know why he had £5000 in his back
pocket, Mario answered in spectacular fashion, “Because I am rich”.
Finally there’s
the firework fiasco the night before the Manchester Derby, where Balotelli
score two and revealed the famous and iconic “Why always me” shirt on his under
armour. Mario was unveiled as Greater Manchester’s ambassador for firework
safety. All of these are off the field
incidents, never mind what happened on the pitch.
One of the
first incidents on the field would be when Mario was having an argument over a penalty
with Samuel Eto, only to be hauled away by captain Javier Zanetti. Being sent
off against Rubin Kazan in the Champions League with Eto suspended and Diego Milito
missing out due to injury, Mario was on a yellow card and at half time. Jose Mourinho
spent 14 out of the 15 minutes explaining to Mario what he wanted, as he was
their only Centre- Forward, saying “Mario, I
cannot change you, I have no strikers on the bench, so don't touch anybody and
play only with the ball. If we lose the ball no reaction. If someone provokes
you, no reaction, if the referee makes a mistake, no reaction."
In the 46th minute, Mario was
given a red card. Jose said he could
write a 200 page book about Mario Balotelli and it would be pure comedy.
At Manchester
City, in the semi-finals of the FA Cup, Balotelli decide to celebrate reaching
the final in spectacular fashion by celebrating in front of Manchester United faithful
which Rio Ferdinand and Anderson disagreed with completely, it would go on to
cause a melee with both Manchester City and Manchester United players along
with staff from both teams also getting involved.
Overall Mario
is a extremely funny character, nevertheless it is now do or die for the 25
year old Italian. This really is his last chance to make something of his career,
it began so well with 3 Serie A titles, a Coppa Italia and a UEFA Champions
League during his spell at Internazionale, and then with Manchester City a
Premier League and a FA Cup. I’m a huge fan of Mario and I really don’t want
him to waste his talent. There is still time to turn it around and play a huge
part not only for the rejuvenation of AC Milan, but also for La Nazionale.
Mario needs to set his sights on a place in Antonio Conte’s Euro 2016 squad as
the main man up front. I’d love him to be there with us in France next summer,
but hey ho, only time will tell.
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