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My Take
Mario Balotelli has always fascinated me more as a question than as a player: how much chaos can raw talent survive? Born in Palermo in 1990, a treble winner with Inter while still a teenager, a 189 cm striker with an ice-cold finishing instinct — the ceiling was generational. The career that followed mixed brilliant moments with self-inflicted detours, yet he keeps finding clubs, keeps scoring, keeps mattering. I refuse to file him under wasted potential. Football needs its unpredictable characters, and Balotelli at his best produced images the sport still has not forgotten. I would rather have ten of him than another tidy professional.
Overview
Mario Balotelli Barwuah (Italian pronunciation: [ˈmaːrjo baloˈtɛlli]; né Barwuah; born 12 August 1990) is an Italian professional footballer who plays as a striker for UAE First Division club Al-Ittifaq. Balotelli started his professional football career in 2005 at Lumezzane, before joining Inter Milan in 2007. He won the treble (Serie A, Coppa Italia, and Champions League) in 2010.
Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Mario Balotelli
- Name (Japanese)
- マリオ・バロテッリ
- Reading
- まりお・ばろてっり
- Born
- August 12, 1990 (age 35)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Leo / Horse
- Origin
- Palermo, Province of Palermo, Italy
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- 189 cm
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- association football player
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Private
- University
- Private
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
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7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-11
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.