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The Telegraph calling Mario Balotelli the most overrated footballer of all time is literally outrageous. He’s one of the first black players to represent Italy National team in major tournaments and the abuse he had to endure for it was unbelievable. “Failed to completely fulfill his apparent potential,” why though? Was it because:
In 2009 at Turin’s Stadio Olimpico, while playing for Inter Milan, he
was insulted throughout the whole match by the chorus, “A n**** cannot
be Italian!”
After his transfer to AC Milan, Paolo Berlusconi, the team’s
vice-president and brother of the former prime minister, Silvio
Berlusconi, was filmed saying, “Okay, now we are all off [to the stadium] to see the family’s little n*****.”
During Euro 2012, UEFA charged Croatia over racist chants against Balotelli, but it was the Italian supporters who called him
a “black piece of shit” during the training session at Coverciano,
right before the World Cup. And after Italy crashed out, someone posted a video on instagram saying, “Mario, you’re not really Italian. Go away.”
In 2013, during the Milan derby, his former Inter supporters welcomed
him by waving plastic bananas. As Inter president Massimo Moratti
declared after the match, “My compliments go to the public, they really
behaved themselves. They avoided doing anything unpleasant.”