Mario Balotelli is an excellent football player, with such a talent that we are ready to forgive him a lot of things. Young player that dodged his destiny and thanks to human kindness escaped from misery certainly has no rights to be arrogant with anyone.
Playing under Mourinho is a chance to learn the basic rules of professional football, as Portuguese coach is resolved to subject the wild character to the needs of the team and make him swallow his pride but we are not sure this will be an easy task.
Mario Bolatelli, with depressive Adriano absent and Crespo worn out and wasted Cruzo at the moment, got a chance like few players ever got. This 19-year old is already a regular starter, and the club has patience for his mistakes, especially because the lead on the top is so big that it offers plenty of space for the young player to mature, regardless of his mistakes.
However, if anything can come in Mario Balotelli’s way, it will be his ego. The boy simply has obnoxious character. Let us remind you of the match against Manchester United and the eagerness swelling out of this young striker. He was eager not only to prove his quality against the best team in the world but also to pick up a fight with Cristiano Ronaldo.
Some may attribute this to his immaturity and desire to get hold of big things faster.
But we think that this is about something else, rude behavior in combination with arrogance.
Francesco Totti, who is not the perfect example of a well-behaved player, commented on Balotelli’s behavior by recollecting his own start in Roma when he was 16 and he said that back then he would have gotten slapped by older team mates as well as the coach and after that parents would have their say too.
Balotelli couldn’t care less, he is always late on preparations of the national squad, he has blended perfectly in Italian jet-set, living his life to the fullest.
The pitch is the only thing that counts, you might think.
Perhaps, but this kind of people are not what one football fan wants to see, nor a role-model for the newcomers to look upon. The media are overlooking his flaws for now, because of the great talent.
Wait for Balotelli’s first crisis, several goalless games and the press will be the first to get him down.
Something must sell the tabloids, youngsters with Mario Balotelli’s character are usually the heroes on the front pages.
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Get out with this stupid comment isn’t he a human he has the right to choose his path , find something sensible to write about the football world so we can read not about some ones ego many has it , Totti spit on other footballers , CR7 has his , Cantona did has and ego , Ibarhimovic had his it took time for all this people to develop to let the boy be u journalist biased all the time.