😱 Balotelli's Disastrous Return to Serie A 🇮🇹 | OneFootball

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·29 de janeiro de 2025

😱 Balotelli's Disastrous Return to Serie A 🇮🇹

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56 minutes and then gone?

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Some believed in it, others did not. In any case, Mario Balotelli's return to Italy is turning into a Commedia dell'arte.

The iconic Italian striker made his grand return last October, at Genoa.

The setting of the promoted team seemed ideal with the opportunity for the 34-year-old striker to share his experience in a mid-table club, and above all to fill the absences of Junior Messias and Vitinha, the former OM striker.

For Super Mario, it was also the opportunity to return to Serie A, a championship in which he had not been seen since 2020 and a stint at Brescia.

Nothing is going as planned!

After encouraging beginnings where he enters during five consecutive matches, the former center-forward of OM and Nice disappears from the radar.

This eviction coincides notably with the arrival on the bench of a certain Patrick Vieira with whom Balotelli had a conflictual relationship in the past, at Manchester City and Nice.

Since the inauguration of the French technician, the Italian international has not played a single minute.

And in the last two matches, he was not even in the group.

"I believe that by the end of the transfer window, it will be about finding a good solution for everyone. Genoa does not give him the playing minutes he would like, so we think the solution could be to find a club where he can play", declared Marco Ottolini, the sporting director of the Genoa club, this weekend on Italian television.

A departure this winter seems inevitable and Super Mario's record at Genoa is terrible: 3 months, 6 matches played, 56 minutes of play, 0 goal, 0 decisive pass, 2 yellow cards.


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