Inter, Mario Balotelli repentant: “I cried a lot”
Inter, Mario Balotelli repentant: “I cried a lot”
Former Inter striker Mario Balotelli in an interview with Muschio Selvaggio returned to his farewell to the Nerazzurri club, confessing his love for the Beneamata: “Counting the youth teams I did five years. I owe Inter so much, I loved it and I still love it so much, then in my heart I am a Milanista but I owe practically my whole career to Inter because it launched me and believed in me, to Moratti I owe everything.”
The jersey thrown on the ground: “In this very important match, semi-final of Champions I enter the game in progress and I also enter well. Then I miss one or two balls and San Siro starts booing me and I didn’t take it well, I took it really bad. I was 18 years old, definitely my mistake my final reaction but man, I loved Inter with all my heart and I was too hurt that day there. I came home and I was crying, I tell you the truth.”
“They booed me and I had a reaction where, at the end of the game, I threw my jersey on the ground. But it wasn’t a reaction to say ‘that sucks,’ it was really against them at that moment there because I was angry and I didn’t understand the point. They were exaggerating those booing like that. Maybe it was the stress and the desire to go to the final because Inter had not been going for a thousand years, but it had been exaggerated. Some booing I accept. In soccer it happens, if it happened to me today I would take it with a smile. However on Materazzi, to go back to the locker room episode we had a fight, but not to the hands, verbally. He was a person who came to me whatever happened, positive or negative, so I understood his reaction and it was an older brother reaction as if to say ‘what the f— are you doing’.”
