The Balotelli Paradox
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- čas přidán 22. 02. 2024
- Mario Balotelli is one of the most interesting characters in world football. With just as much natural talent as tabloid headlines, the striker has had a rollercoaster of a career playing in England, Italy, France, Switzerland and Turkey. How can a player be so good yet so inconsistent? This is the Balotelli Paradox. Enjoy!
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One of the Biggest "WHAT IF STORIES" in Football (What player should we cover next??)
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i was 13 when i watched us win the league against QPR with my dad and Mario balotelli gave me memories ill never forget and tell my kids about
Balo is a legend in my book, making his own unique path on his terms... love it or hate it
I was also 13. Balotelli was good when both aguero and dzeko were injured and tevez playing golf. Real man city fan won't forget how clutch his penalty kick was and his positioning. He is always my idol for sure
i am a utd fan... I was out at dinner and they had the game on the tv. qpr was 2-1 up me and my dad were celebrating. my mom told us we needed to go and wouldnt accept that we wanted to watch the added time of a football match. so we left and me and my dad were chatting excitedly as a fan who thinks they are winning the league would, we come home turn on the tv and see the wrong manchester team celebrating : (
honestly one of the great football moments...
I was 18 and ran outside in celebration screaming so i wouldny piss my whole famoly off lol
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Along with Antonio Cassano, Italy had 2 different kids who really had the talent and class to become Balon D’or. But both couldn’t control the fame and money part.
Cassano was also most def a talent ^
@@TheFootballRecords Cassano claimed to have slept with like 700 women, that is really wild.
Awesome video as always.
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700 escorts ? Well -good for him!
0:48 a SMALL town called Palermo. Palermo is the 5th biggest city in Italy...
lol woops - true true
OK, he´s American, we know how weak they are in geography... ;-) ;-) ;-) But otherwise, good job...
Founded over 2800 years ago... The only place of the southern half of the italic peninsula not belonging to Greece, back then.
My first ever favorite player. There were others that had my attention but Mario gave me that feeling that the likes of Sergio, Silva (David and Bernardo), Yaya, and Kevin have made me feel
Balotelli is a grown up man nowadays! I love watching him commenting about the football matches at a high level recently! Go Balotelli go! He might be good at coaching youngsters too! Who knows?
I would love to see him get some coaching looks ^
His ego and Knee injuries cost him dearly. Still during his prime he was one of the most talented players I have ever seen in my life.
Footballs getting plain now we need more characters like him
if you mean promising players that end up as clowns, we have Vini Jr walking that very same path
You may love the glamour of the game, but if you love football then you love Balotelli.
He had all the tools, created some serious moments even on the pitch… even with the tabloid plays etc..
Your composure will definitely play role in growing of your channel ❤❤
blessings
Balotelli will always be one of my favorite players. Great video
Now he has 202 goals
“Oh Balotelli, he’s good at darts.
He’s gotta allergy to grass, but when he plays he’s f**king class.
He drives around Moss side with a wallet full of cash.”
Absolute legend. Made me a fan of the sport
Carlos Tevez had a nice way of "bullying" Mario off the pitch, they had a good chemistry.
Cool video. I worked as a football journalist for a long time and I was doing my first steps when Balotelli came around. I think I never really understood him, likewise some of the people who worked with him. He was iconic, but never got the level we all expected from him. But he is a cool character, no doubt about that.
Balo has always been a polarizing figure in the sport, I respect he did everything "his way"... but the fandom in me aswell... just sits & asks on a regular basis...
What could have been...
Could’ve been one of the best if not for his attitude
I still today love balotelli. He was such a charming player before he got his first premier league title. He always showed up when no striker was available due to injuries. He was my hero when he scored the two goals in the euros. I still think if he had maintained his form better, he would have gotten the euro cup with Mancini which would be one of the most wholesome story after their fist fight. He had had good spell for almost every clubs he joined beside Liverpool. He hasn't fallen off. He just wanted to live his life he wants in a way. But people should watch his positioning and penalty kick. He seemed to get into position out of nowhere like inzaghi. Just really miss his high times as a city fan
I don't think anyone would ever doubt his talent, but imo he ends up in that category of "what could have been"... but at the same time, in many ways it's just unique how he went about his business across his career... like Balo for sure lived the life of many men in the past decade
Will definitively follow this channel. Proper job! Congrats ❤
The FUCKING assisst to win Citys FIRST Premier league!
True True ^
Love this video. Really glad I stumbled on this channel. Love your video style. Hope you go soooo far.⚽⚽⚽⚽⚽
Mario was a special player. Young Balotelli had it all. Technical and physically, but couldn't amount it to the next level.
The second best day of my life was when he signed for Liverpool.
The best was the day he left...
I hate how there's this perception that Balotelli had anything less than a great career! World class player.
I can only imagine what Baoltelli would have been able to do without the racial adversity he faced. God damn shame how he was treated by fellow Italians. Balotelli should have been on the national squad and I promise you he would changed Italys fate in that tournament.
Ayo, your have a unique character compared to other channels. Very authentic, stay true to yourself, and doing the good work for the game
appreciate you, more content comin' otu asap ^
This channel is going to blow up . Keep it up . Can you do radja nainggolan
the smoking midfield lol
Great quality. You gave a bright future ahead. Subscribed.
Thanks - pass on the channel to your friends +
He was a nearly singular non-sellout in the football world, and he knew it (he knew that he´s mainly dealing with assholes, and had not a bit of tolerance left for them...)
Balo was for sure a man that walked to his own beat if you will throughout his entire career. He didn't play any of the politics when it comes to the sport
From the moment the video started I subscribed!!!!!!!!
That semi final goal against germany will always appear in my nightmares
He was a God that night. Everyone was saying how Germany was going to win the World Cup until Balotelli single handedly beat 4 top defenders with the long pass from Italian midfield.
Great video. Keep up the work man
Much love brother
People who openly discriminate have no shame. No respectable person has the audacity to taunt a little boy no matter how bigoted they are. No one.
Mike an OG Fifa goat
yes sir +
Mikeyyyy always rooting for u bro
quality storytelling! great stuff for people new to football (like me) and want to pick up some lore
Mario Ballotelli... 🔥🔥
Funfact: balotelli’s only assist in the premier league was that aguero goal that won city the league
Bro's back with a banger
Balo is the man
Mario Ballotelli golden age was between 2010-2014 unfortunately
Great video mate! Really enjoyed it, maybe add some background music, but again great work.
Talent will take you..where your character cannot keep you 😢
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great video
Do a video on Leeds united fall from grace in 2004 till today and their push for promotion this season it’s been incredible
I watched him in Adana, I don’t know the rest
He was good, he did not have to show off with 7 ballondors to show it. He was perhaps against the institutionalisation in football. We loved him for what he is. Perhaps Also Mourinho brought a legend in a different way, he broke him :D
Small correction: Palermo is not a small town, but the 5th largest city in Italy.
Correct ^
@@TheFootballRecords Thanks. Keep up the great work!
Had to subscribe to this channel. Quality is way too good to only have 1k subscribers. Major sub increase upcoming
Appreciate you - Working really hard with branding & videos. Spread the love +
He's got ADHD it can really make life difficult and life in general, he was lucky he has a skill he is so good at
Sorry, stopped watching when you missed the fact that his only ever assist recorded at City was the one he gave Aguero for that title winning goal. That's an important part of his City lore as much as him shooting darts at a youth player.
We won't be perfect brother.
Also, some clips are much harder to get past copyrights & such.. but still... you are right... it's quite the stat & what a moment in premier league history
Balo had the game to back up his antics, but where it went sometimes nobody knows.
You forgot when he said 'It's my job. Haha
lol classic moments
Questo é fantastico💯
Are you that guy who’s used to upload fifa 16 vids back in the day??!!! Omg how old I got I was 15 at that time now I’m 23 thanks for those tutorials bro it helped me😅
Ohhh Balotelli
He’s a striker, he’s good at darts 🎯
An allergy to grass but when he plays he’s f-in class ⚽️
He drives around Moss Side with a wallet full of cash 💴
Ohhh Balotelli!
CTID
turn up then
@@TheFootballRecords eh? It’s the Man City fans song for Mario
That move against LA was savage tho 😂
lol, so not needed
I love Mario
that balotelli family tho what a people hats of to that man and woman who took him in
It looked like his injuries at Liverpool and Milan also did something mentally to him, could perhaps explain his poor form in that time.
It’s such a shame that it genuinely seemed like he’d only play to his capabilities when he gave a shit.
But man when that guy was switched on, the level of football IQ, the guy wasn’t like a typical striker relying on pace and strength. He had the strength, but watch most of his goals, he almost literally stops the play and just in a pin point moment of crazy precision will just rifle it into the top corner. Hold up play and lay it off perfectly.
It’s ABSOLUTELY insane how his games could bounce between him playing at the peak of his powers, or him not giving a shit and just trying stupid tricks and flicks.
Took me a sec but I realized I’ve been watching your videos on pro fifa since maybe FIFA 13? Maybe 15 idk crazy tho
We all need some man like Balotelli to lit football up.
here before this channel gets famous
appreciate you - share with your people please +
This is quality
But do u use the same editor as footy frontier?
No, its myself & close friend that work with the editing process. I haven't seen that channel, but will pull it up on the tube
Why do non Italians love describing “Mario” barwuah is Italian when he is really a Ghanaian lucky enough to be born to parents living illegally in Italy
Because nationality and ethnicity are two different things 🙄
I mean he was born in Italy, & spent nearly his entire life in Italy.. unless you are basically saying "he's not italian" because he doesn't "look italian"
which sadly, sorta reinforces a lot of the struggle Balo has faced in Italy...
He is italian…
Maverick that's polite.
I would describe Zlatan or Jay-Jay Okocha as being a maverick. With Balotelli, I do not see any cohesive thought pattern.
Mourinho has dealt with unconventional footballers in the past like O'tto, Zlatan, Deco but with Mario all that I see is panic and confusion.
In the end he will always disappoint.
Maybe after retirement he will realize what could or should had been.
He had even been able to look after himself.
Considering athleticism was one of his strongest attributes he has been playing walking football since his time at Nice. When was the last occasion Balotelli lasted 90 minutes?
He plays in a team sport. There has to be some level of unity but time after time, he has proved either that he doesn't get it or care about it.
Look at the team in Turkey that he currently is with. Midtable. Maybe they are the only ones willing to deal with him.
Even 37 year old Dzeko is at Fenerbache.
I've been watching Balotelli since about 2007.
Even when managing Italy, Mancini eventually ran out of faith with Balotelli despite the lack of quality strikers.
I look forward to doing a video on Ibra, I would actually take Ibra up a significant notch... I actually think Ibra is highlu underrated & often reflect that if he didn't play in the Ronaldo / Messi era he would have been looked at worldwide as one of the most talented strikerrs we've ever seen in football
Many could become legend actually ruined their own career
Kobe closet 😮❤🎉
Balotelli has 12 fans, you mean like ones that are still living?
Stubborn student with good grades 😂
of course he did not use full of hos talent, maybe even half of it, but he has played this game and lives as he wishes, so I’m sure he does not regret something
He was pretty awesome in the triplete season with Mourinho in Inter, aside from the Barca game. Inter wouldn’t have gotten the triplete without him.
One of my favorite players. In the late 2K, in terms of talent, was up there with Zlatan, Rooney, Messi, Adriano, Eto and Ronaldo. Racism broke him down. Black players in Europe aren't built like Black players in America. Do not have that support system. Do not have that history of dealing with the BS. Then there's this. Say the wrong thing to the wrong Black player in America and you might not make it home.
I was here before "The Football Records" got famous
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Super mario
Im sorry if I misunderstood but what is the paradox exactly?
We miss him so much. RIP Man 💔
Mario balotelli forever 🌩️🐺🥶⛈️⚡
legend in my book
nowone about KP Boateng and we rollin
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Do a video on Ronaldinho please 😊
this will happen 100% at some point on the channel
Palermo is much bigger than Manchester.....
Palermo small town ? It has 700k inhabitants...
woopsss we aren't perfect haha +
You say nothing about his current Turkish saga
I'm not sure if we should like detail all of the player stops in more detail or not... We typically go pretty fast like covering some overview from the career path as opposed to like a season by season breakdown
like almost "highs / lows" as opposed to like a super analytical per season approach
He's a real g. A real man. 💯
Mike?
yuhhhh
I lived in Altrincham when Ballotelli lived in Manchester, saw him few times in the newsagents with his mates looking at porno mags, all of them laughing there heads off.
Nice video but Palermo ain t a small town is bigger the Manchester dude
Won’t be perfect brother, but we working +
The Entire Football Community ruined him. We are so fickle as a society & many have deep seeded prejudice & I really feel a lot of this could be founded on pure racism. Loved him as a youth prodigy, adopt a narrative of his bad attitude/character.. City stunt his growth (vs.Dzeko/Tevez/Aguero). In awe of him after the Euros. Then suddenly he's apparently not good enough to be a squad player (Choupo-Moting). But how is Gascoigne viewed in comparison & what about Icardi's character?
ability wise Balo had all the tools & we saw those
It's too bad we didn't get long spells of legit him being one of the best in the world, but the man did it his way no doubt ^
Mrs Chatergee anyone
Great player whose attitude never helped
Also, being allergoc to grass isn't that uncommon. That's like your average Twitter user
😂😂 + Mike… also allergic
I think it was all mario fault 🤔
Fifa 09 buy balotelli, goes to 93
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I think you're great but please, don't start player profiles with where they were born. I think this subject is interesting enough to skip all that and still make a 8-10min video. Also, keep in mind, most American sport CZcamsrs do this but there are plenty awesome football youtubers over the pond who don't. Still a subscriber and looking forward to your next video!
Thanks for your feedback, I think we disagree on some of the storytelling & creative.. Alot of people know the career of their favorite footballers, but often the beginning narratives & the adversities they face on their pathway to success is what makes the progression so interesting... & is not highlighted in any mainstream media outlets
Just my take +
Nah. Backstory in this mini Doku is great.
The portrayal of Balotelli as some wild card who does things his own way is inaccurate, at best. A lot of it is translation issues, his actions and words sound cooler in English than in Italian. Perception here is very different. He's not a maverick, he's a spoiled brat from a nice neighbourhood. A fake-tough guy fraud who bitches and whines whenever he's questioned, and pretends being Ghanain means his upbringing was Boyz n the Hood whenever people criticize any of this.
At 4:19 "many of the veterans want you to be a humble superstar", maybe this is true in England and elsewhere, but here no. The culture is different. Obviously humility is preferable, but you can be obnoxious and egotistical and still be a star. Thats over half of our national heroes right there, Maldinis are few and far between. Mario's failure in Italy was due to his insecurity and inability to handle pressure, which is expected in young players. It was his refusal to grow up which caused issue there. I can't say he's an asshole or anything, actually in interviews he seems like a nice enough guy, it was his habit of crying to the media what soured opinions. We all love a crazy outburst, but Mario wasn't yelling like Spalletti, he was bitching, and it gets very draining very fast.
Everyone is entitled to their own opinions. A big reason Balotelli is a "what if story... or a what could have been story" is undoubtably due to his attitude & off the pitch choices. You can be a fan of him & also acknowledge that... I would still say he was most definately a wild card & did things his own way... even if it wasn't liked or supported
That also doesn't mean it was "the right way"
Balo's talent was world class, & his off the pitch situationships made him famous & interesting ont top of the football talent... but also completely damaged his career trajectory with the sport. When it comes to plenty of the racism, that is documented heavily throughout his career & noone should face that type of hate regardless if you like or dislike him as an individual.
To be honest, you have basketball player like Dennis Rodman who was crazy off the pitch but keep it very together in his time on the court despite some fallout. I think some modern psychology could have made him contribute more. If you can get him perform like the time he scored two goals against Italy, he would have been very accepted.
@@artie8561 Damn thats a perfect example. Yeah, Balotelli was Dennis Rodman for one match, against Germany. That was it, every other time he could have been that guy, he flopped or disappeared. Italy loves the crazy guys, as long as they're the crazy guys who show up. Balo had the swagger but none of the moments.
So to the rest of the world, maybe he's seen as a Cantona-who-never-was, but here he's just another Alessio Cerci.
@@TheFootballRecords ha, the racial thing is for the Anglosphere. You're okay with chants about Suarez' teeth, chants like "the baby's not yours", chants about dead family members, criminal prosecutions, being ugly, short, fat, anything. But when its racial, its some horror thats akin to assault with a deadly weapon.
Yeah we don't care. An insult is an insult. If we wanted to be harsh, we'd be insulting his mother, or that he doesn't know her. Its a cultural thing. He was born here, he knows this, but why ruin a good headline
A American talking about football or soccer as they inexplicable call it, just doesn’t feel right.
Very great player. Poor attitude.
Average and overhyped player
ooo hot takes ^
Bad attitude, arrogant, wreckless and entitled! Im happy he is done.
Talent wasted and lost!!!