Comments on: The curious case of Mario Balotelli

By: piet dlamini

piet dlamini — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 09:33:36 +0000

The Italians find it taboo that a black kid brought up by white folk can make it there.There must stop being so descriminative towards Mario.

By: njabulo danisa

njabulo danisa — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 14:59:59 +0000

I think mario is going to be a big thing in italy even though they are racist. gfenerally italians are racist, but we still love them. Im a ac milan fan, mario is a ac milan fan.

mario will break the record to be the first black player to play for italy.

hooocha!!!!!!!

By: kal

kal — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 03:54:27 +0000

in all honesty i think mourinho handles balotelli poorly. when interviewed about the racism chants he just says he didnt here it or plainly ignores it. he needs to show more support for his player even when he messes up. you ever here wenger or alex ferguson criticise individuals infront of the press. no, of course not. i never saw mourinho criticise individual players at chelsea, so why do it to an upcoming talent who could become the best in the world.

By: james rociano

james rociano — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 16:30:04 +0000

this is racist. just because it is said in other countries does not make it right. yopu europeans are backward. and you always try to justify yourself and try to be selfrighteous about things like torture. but you cant get the simply things right. if someone yelled that at a soccer game in usa or american football game they would be thrown out of the stadium by their fellow fans

By: Yankee_Gunner

Yankee_Gunner — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 17:56:42 +0000

Someone explain to me how this chant is any different than the chant yelled around the world each week that go unpunished?

Balotelli is a professional footballer. He and every other player at a major club are paid large sums of money to play a game and one of the major consequences is that they are constantly in the spotlight. These chants are part of that spotlight.

By: larry robinson

larry robinson — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 20:48:12 +0000

Total absolute rubbish.

“Let’s say that the chant in itself is not racist, but people who are not well-liked come to be identified with it. So that chant becomes a form of discrimination.”

No amount of drugs could make sense of this abuse of language.

THIS IS NOT DISCRIMINATION.
This is political correctness for the mentality retarded.
Oh wait, Im sorry, we cant make fun of the retarded right?

I can call a white guy an idiot just like I can a black guy.
Being an idiot isnt a question of race, im sure there are as many white a-holes as there are black ones but somehow we are limited to same race opinions.

He is abused because he is talented AND because he is a first class twit who can be easily thrown off by things like the weather changing, therefore the perfect target.

Your advice to let some small idiotic things he does slide is the WORST advice since you are sending the message to other (young players) that you can always be an ass to some degree if you have enough potential.

I thought I had seen all kinds of stupid reasoning before but this story really takes the cake. Starting with fining a team because they are taunting a player on a team not even in the stadium.

Tell me, if they start taunting Thierry Henry “If you jump, Thierry dies.” will they fine the fans if thought Thierry is not at the stadium or even in the league?

How about if they taunt someone not in the EU? Some unimportant player far away like Landon Donovan?
Would the league also fine the fans?
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Of course not.

By: Daniel Chung

Daniel Chung — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 14:36:14 +0000

Very educating article. I’m not a big fan of Ballotelli and quite frankly I side more with Mourinho when it comes to the young generation of players who believe that their paycheck is equivalent to their footballing achievements. I do, however, appreciate the slight irony of a man who calls himself the “special one” and who operates on a different “ego dimension” himself criticizing a player for arrogance.