Why balotelli doesnt play against spain

The current world champions needed penalties to beat Portugal in the semifinals after the game finished , despite extra-time. Though Ramos and Fabregas both scored in the shootout, Spain are hoping that their potential place in history is not decided on penalties on Sunday.

And with greatness so near, it's not surprising that the players are all too well aware of the stakes. Stingy Spain worried about Balotelli, Italy. Balotelli's goals against Germany saw the mercurial Manchester City striker overcome a poor start to the tournament. Soon, he would go on to make his first-team debut. The striker, after impressing everyone, was called for a trial at La Liga giants Barcelona, but he failed to impress the coaches at the Camp Nou.

It was at the San Siro that he broke on to the world scene. Balotelli was called up to the first team by Roberto Mancini, whom he considered as a father figure. A post shared by Mario Balotelli?? With doubts over his career in the Serie A, he found an escape to Manchester City in , with Mancini coming to his rescue again. The Italian started the subsequent campaign poorly, and soon fell-out with Mancini after a training ground bust-up.

By this time, Manchester City hierarchy had seen enough, and the striker was shipped off to AC Milan in Subsequently, the bad boy of football was offloaded to Liverpool in , with the Reds being desperate to find a replacement for Luis Suarez, who joined Barcelona the same summer.

The Italian could muster just four goals in 28 appearances for Liverpool, who promptly sent him back to Milan on a season-long loan deal in He continued to put in underwhelming performances for the Rossoneri, often plagued by injuries and bad form.

The striker returned to Liverpool in , but new Reds boss Jurgen Klopp had seen enough of him as he was sold to Ligue 1 outfit Nice. During his three-year stay in France with Nice and Marseille, Balotelli found his scoring boots again. He was given multiple bans for misbehaving with the referees and for kicking out at opposition players. While playing for Marseille, he one scored a spectacular bicycle kick goal and celebrated by posting a picture on his phone, despite being on the field. Never change, Mario?

When Balotelli scored a brilliant overhead kick for Marseille… Then immediately posted the celebration on Instagram while he was still on the pitch! BestOf pic. Ahead of the campaign, the year-old signed a multi-year contract with Brescia. Till date, he has played for the club only 19 times and has five goals to show for his efforts. If there was a way to play Mario Balotelli's career 10 different times, 9 of them would've been way more successful.

I think we got the worst roll of the dice in reality, as he joins other massively talented players like Antonio Cassano in the "what could have been" category. Life has come full circle for Balotelli, and despite having the potential of being a world-class footballer, yet somehow, his story will always be of enormous talent wasted.

Riccardo Montolivo lofted a simple ball over the sluggish German defence, and Balotelli, confidence visibly surging through him, took a touch and slammed the ball past Manuel Neuer.

He ripped off his shirt in celebration and glared at all around him. This was his stage, and he had performed. I told her these goals were for her. I waited a long time for this moment, especially as my mother is not young anymore and can't travel far, so I had to make her happy when she came all the way here.

My father will be in Kiev for the final too. Sunday was not better. Spain had ominously improved, and crushed Italy in the final. For Balotelli, it was largely downhill from there. He had been without a club since leaving Brescia in July, having repeatedly failed to turn up to training as they were relegated from Serie A. His travails at Inter, Manchester City, AC Milan and Liverpool — among others — are well documented, from fireworks in the bathroom to scoring deliberate own goals in training.

He had been training with Serie D club Franciacorta when Monza came calling.