Tag: Mario Balotelli

  • 16 Favorites to be the Top Scorer of the 2014 World Cup

    16 Favorites to be the Top Scorer of the 2014 World Cup

    The top scorer in the World Cup receives the Golden Boot award. While it’s almost impossible to predict the winner, picking from a group that includes Neymar, Lionel Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo, Edin Dzeko and Romelu Lukaku makes it a rather safe choice.

  • Mario Balotelli With the Most Important Goal for AC Milan This Season

    Mario Balotelli With the Most Important Goal for AC Milan This Season

    The only way up since Clarence Seedorf took over as the manager of AC Milan, but it’s more than just his managerial skills that are going to save the season for this giant club, struggling in the middle of the table up to this point. Mario Balotelli hitting what might be the best goal this season in the Serie A falls under the definition of special.

  • Mario Balotelli Crying After Being Substituted

    Mario Balotelli Crying After Being Substituted

    It’s not exactly new that Mario Balotelli is an emotional guy, but seeing Mario Balotelli reduced to tears after he was sent to the bench by Clarence Seedorf as AC Milan lost to Napoli 3-1 is quite perplexing.

  • Chelsea FC Transfer Rumors – Going After Wayne Rooney or Mario Balotelli

    Chelsea FC Transfer Rumors – Going After Wayne Rooney or Mario Balotelli

    No one loves going shopping in January, but Chelsea do have quite a critical situation with their strikers, who have scored a total of 7 league goals so far this season. The answer? Wayne Rooney of Manchester Untied and Mario Balotelli of AC Milan.

  • Biggest Names in the January Transfer Window

    One of the interesting things about the January transfer window is that it usually includes a lot of big names, but hardly any major transfers. Out of the big names that will be rumored to join new clubs, like Juan Mata, Robert Lewandowski, Shinji Kagawa and Mario Balotelli, it won’t be much of a surprise to see that everyone stays put.

  • AC Milan – Kaka Was Worth the Wait

    AC Milan – Kaka Was Worth the Wait

    Few big teams have been playing more poorly than AC Milan have since the beginning of the season. Despite their poor form and the fans beginning to lose their patience, the personnel and talent they have is obviously much better than the results. At some point, it had to start coming together, and the man in charge of a sudden sense of calm and optimism is Kaka, looking more and more like the player who left the club more than four years ago, dragging Mario Balotelli upwards with him.

  • Barcelona vs AC Milan – Neymar is Starring, Lionel Messi Scoring Again

    Barcelona vs AC Milan – Neymar is Starring, Lionel Messi Scoring Again

    A rivalry can be big only by name, because for the last few years, it’s not a really fair fight between Barcelona and AC Milan, a club in deep trouble after two or three years of completely mismanaging their transfer policy. On the happier side of the chasm, Neymar is playing like he’s in Brazil again, while Lionel Messi proves he hasn’t forgotten how to score and it’s only a matter of time before we’re going to see the numbers we’re used to from him.

  • AC Milan – Mario Balotelli Isn’t the Future

    AC Milan – Mario Balotelli Isn’t the Future

    Love him or hate him, there’s no doubt that Mario Balotelli is an exceptional striker, but also a person with a volatile temper and childish behavior showcased quite often. The best player AC Milan have, there is no doubt, but far too important in his role if the club is to regain its status as one of the top teams in Europe.

  • Jonas Eriksson Gives AC Milan & Mario Balotelli A Penalty That Doesn’t Exist

    Jonas Eriksson Gives AC Milan & Mario Balotelli A Penalty That Doesn’t Exist

    Awful referee decisions continue to hurt the top competitions of European competitions, as Jonas Eriksson gifts AC Milan a penalty kick in injury time which was converted by Mario Balotelli to save a point against Ajax, even though Balotelli was the one who fouled Mike van der Hoorn and not the other way around.

  • AC Milan – Mario Balotelli Finally Fulfilling His Promise

    AC Milan – Mario Balotelli Finally Fulfilling His Promise

    Mario Balotelli doesn’t need to be slowly developed and groomed. He always wanted to be right in the thick of things, and to be treated like the most important player on the pitch. Since joining AC Milan, he has gotten his wish, and this season, the first he gets to start in Italy since 2009, might also be the year he joins the ranks of the world’s elite strikers.