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Mario Barwuah Balotelli : [ˈmaˑɾjo baloˈtɛlːli]; Born Mario Barwuah; 12 August 1990) is an Italian footballer who plays as a striker for Manchester City and the Italy national team.
He started his professional football career at Lumezzane and played for the first team twice before having an unsuccessful trial at FC Barcelona, and subsequently joining Internazionale in 2007. Inter manager Roberto Mancini
brought Balotelli into the first team, but when Mancini left,
Balotelli's disciplinary record fell away. He had a strained
relationship with new head coach José Mourinho and was suspended from Inter's first team in January 2009 after a number of disciplinary problems.
His problems deepened in March 2010 when he came under heavy criticism by Inter fans after he appeared on the Italian TV show Striscia la notizia, wearing an A.C. Milan
jersey. This damaged the prospect of him having a long career at Inter,
but he did make several appearances after that. With doubts over his
career at Inter, former coach Roberto Mancini had since moved to
Manchester City and decided to give Balotelli a fresh chance at a new
club. He joined Manchester City in August 2010, where his performances
and off-field activities have continued to be enigmatic and
unpredictable.
Balotelli, who is of Ghanaian descent, earned his first cap for the Italian national team on 10 August 2010 in a friendly match against the Côte d'Ivoire, becoming one of the first black players to play for the Italian national football team.
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Mario Barwuah Balotelli | ||
| Date of birth | 12 August 1990 | ||
| Place of birth | Palermo, Italy | ||
| Height | 1.89 m (6 ft 2 in) | ||
| Playing position | Striker | ||
| Club information | |||
| Current club | Manchester City | ||
| Number | 45 | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 2001–2005 | Lumezzane | ||
| 2006–2007 | Internazionale | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps† | (Gls)† |
| 2005–2006 | Lumezzane | 2 | (0) |
| 2007–2010 | Internazionale | 59 | (20) |
| 2010– | Manchester City | 40 | (19) |
| National team‡ | |||
| 2008–2010 | Italy U21 | 16 | (6) |
| 2010– | Italy | 13 | (4) |
Mario Balotelli : Sometimes finds Manchester a lonely place but, since swapping Italy
for England last summer, he has rarely been left alone. It remains a
potentially toxic paradox but at least Roberto Mancini's most arresting,
if anarchic, talent is learning to see the funny side of growing up in
public.
Well aware his every on- and off-field excess – and there
have been a few – is routinely exaggerated, City's £24m former
Internazionale striker has decided the time has finally come to separate
fact from fiction. The vexed issue of parking looms high on his agenda.
"I heard that I have £12,000 worth of parking tickets," says the
20-year-old in his distinctive, deepest bass, voice. "If that was true
then I would have to get about 35 tickets a day. It's not possible. I
have maybe 20 parking fines, which I know is a lot and I have been stupid. I have parked my car outside San Carlo restaurant too many times but I have not been fined £12,000."
Introducing
an element of self deprecation to conversation in a second language is
not easy but Balotelli's English has quickly become so advanced that his
sentences are now nuanced with the sort of care he has not always
displayed towards opponents, team-mates and referees.
As he pours
hot drinks rather awkwardly in the coffee shop at St Ann's hospice in
Cheadle before devoting two hours to ward rounds spent happily chatting
to patients, an intriguing dichotomy emerges. It certainly seems hard to
square the apparent delinquent José Mourinho once declared
"unmanageable" to the smiling figure described as a "very nice, very
polite young man – although he has no idea how to make tea," by St Ann's
volunteer waitresses.
"See, I do smile," Balotelli says. "My
public image is absolutely not a fair reflection of who I am. Sometimes I
do the wrong thing and there are things I regret but I'm 20. People who
know me are aware I'm not a bad guy but I'm shy; it's difficult to be
here giving an interview."
Coy yet bolshy, Balotelli annoyed
Mourinho to the point where the current Real Madrid coach suspended him
from Inter's squad. "Maybe Mourinho said I was unmanageable because he
could not do it," he says, shrugging. "Roberto Mancini is managing me
now, so what Mourinho said is not true.
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