The attacker tells himself: “With the most chance in blue I could have reached Riva. The period at Barcelona is beautiful when I was a boy. Inter or Milan player? I cheered for Ronaldo but …”
No special party. Mario Balotelli for his 35 years old tomorrow has not organized anything and asks for a single gift: “Health, for me and my loved ones”.
Where is Super Mario ended? The effervescent by nature, with the brand (deserved?) Of the bad boy.
“Once for me everything was black or white. Now I’m learning to grasp the gradations of the gray. I can’t easy, but I’m getting used to it.”
Do you feel more aware also as a father?
“I was never allowed to be present to the end and over time I realized how wonderful this responsibility is.”
How long has your children see?
“With Pia is better because Raffaella is more available, but with Lion it is more difficult. Until they change certain laws …”.
Pia and Lion do sports?
“She is brought for karate, while he promises football well.”
“At eight years old, but my father Franco also took me to the park to make me play and after a while he said to me: ‘There is no need for you to teach you anything, come on to the ball'”
Where will we see it on the pitch?
“I would like to answer but I can’t (and laugh)”.
“Play in Real Madrid …”.
“I am looking for a club that gives me confidence. I want to play two-three years. Then, I go to my brother Enock.”
“Now he plays in the vado among the amateurs. We will see. However, I promised him that I will close his career playing with him”.
Meanwhile he trains. Strong?
“I’m fine. I feel ready.”
And it is exercised with the Muay Thai.
“In England I had met a friend who practices Thai boxing and on June I was there on vacation almost a month. I trained with the world champion Rodtang. I enjoy it and it’s good for me. It’s a hard sport.”
How do you see the new Serie A?
“I don’t follow the TV, I don’t update myself.”
“I am in love with football played. But they are changing too many things. I see many athletes in the field 1.90 meters high, but nobody jumps the man anymore. Also because now as soon as the kids make a tunnel they end up in punishment”.
“The right. Even if I remained a dream, that period passed to Barcelona, then Moratti offered more to Lumezzane and went to Inter”.
What do you remember about that experience?
“Beautiful, I was with the Dos Santos brothers, with Thiago Alcantara, Bojan. It was played freely. They only taught us the technique: stop and transition to the fly, no tactic. It was a joy to go on the pitch, that team was not legal, we won 15-0”.
Yet at Inter and Milan there were no lack of satisfactions.
“Of course. I had and given so much in both Milanese clubs.”
But is you Interista or Milanist?
“As a boy I sympathized for the Nerazzurri because my idol was Ronaldo the phenomenon, then I never hid my sympathy for the Rossoneri world. But being a fan is another thing”.
Allegri returned to Milan and we’ll talk about Galliani.
“I am happy for Max and it is a good that you see Galliani again. Two important figures.”
His Brescia has sunk in C.
“In Serie A I was the captain and when they took off the band I was clear: ‘You will realize who your president is’. Luckily Pasini is now collecting many energies around him after he touched the bottom”.
What’s missing in your career?
“In general I could put more commitment to it. I have the regret of the national team: I could play more”.
Yet he scored 14 goals, like Rivera.
“Leave it alone. If I had more chance maybe I could have approached the shore. Someone didn’t want me in blue … but it’s past water”.
We miss the World Cup. What do you think of Gattuso?
“Rino deserves mine in the good luck. He will put it entirely.”
Meanwhile, in Italy quality attackers are missing.
“It is a serious problem. Young people are not given continuity, they send them to the lower series and after a few months they already change shirt. They are lost”.
Pio Esposito, Francesco Camarda and Lorenzo Venturino. Who breaks through?
“At Genoa I trained with Venturino, he has good shots: I deserve confidence. I also saw Camarda in some broken in Milan and I’m curious to see how he will move in Lecce. But I especially like Pio”.
“I know his brother Seba and I have seen him live several times in Brescia. He has everything to break through. I hope it will make room in Inter, it can be the surprise. But to be at high levels you have to break the ice”.
What do you think of the Lookman case?
“In the market there are many strange stories, if you don’t know them well, you risk saying inaccuracies. And in this story I see too many comments.”
But an idea will have been made.
“Premise. I have been regretting for some time for that gesture at San Siro, when I took the Inter shirt. For this reason I say now that instead of Lookman, with today’s head, I would not have deleted the photos with the Atalanta shirt from the social networks”.
“It is true that the flags no longer exist, that the players sooner or later leave. But the fans have nothing to do with it. They deserve gratitude and respect. And it is not only valid for the Atalantines”.
Did Kelly Doualla, European Under 20 European champion at just 15 years old?
“I am happy for her and for this new blue wave. I read that her idols are the Egonu and Silla volleyball players and it is good that sport discover new faces. I have claimed the choice of Italy by heart and a sense of belonging for my part. Instead critical who, with the double passport, opt for the strongest national team, therefore for calculation”.
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