Comments on: Euro No Shows : Super Mario Balotelli

By: Tuta

Tuta — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 04:31:33 +0000

I don’t think we can generalize the term (racist) to the whole of Italy!
some fans of certain teams are ricists but balotelli plays for Inter, I don’t see Italian nerazzurri booing him or minding that he plays!
all of europe have been racist for a very long time I don’t expect people to get over it overnight. it’s gonna take time to be 100% anti-racist!
Plus, there hasn’t been a lot of italian black players, add to that world-class material and you’ll probably get a big fat ZERO!
Poeple used to say that an Italian player who doesn’t play in the scudetto will never play for the Azzurri and they would say “take Zola as an example” I never bought that B.S … and now we can see that Zambrotta plays in la liga and Luca plays in the Bundesliga and they play for the azzurri. you see how you look at the issue depends on your own background and bias. I am not italian by the way so am not defending any country or attacking any!

By: Franco

Franco — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 03:03:47 +0000

Mario Balotelli represents the Italy of the future. Any thought of a black man never playing for Italy is nonsense. There would not be so many black players in Italy’s serie A if Italy was as racist as joe from the netherlands is trying to imply. Italy’s citizenship’s laws are antiquated and need to be changed but I can think of many a country with black foot players that are still much more racist than Italy. You have to read the history books of places like England, France, Germany and Holland to understand.

By: joe

joe — Mon, 26 May 2008 01:43:16 +0000

I doubt he will ever play for italy. Never has a black man ever played for italy and balotelli wont be the first.. you have to know italy to understand..

By: Michel-Olivier

Michel-Olivier — Thu, 22 May 2008 03:33:17 +0000

balotelli is not a citizen because his parents are not italian citizen. it’s like in france, if your parents are not french citizen even if your born in french soil you will not acquire french citizen. it’s the same law in japan, greece, india, poland, singapore, haiti, and other nations.
but i cant wait till he get his citizenship, he’ll make a deadly partnership with acquafresca and D. rossi that will see italy win the WC 2010.

By: mmmh

mmmh — Sun, 18 May 2008 15:02:35 +0000

I smell racism…

By: James

James — Mon, 12 May 2008 19:40:48 +0000

Thanks sooo much for that warning! Would’ve missed a nice video