Mario Balotelli, as the most well known coloured Italian footballer, has had to deal with more than his fair share of racist abuse from "fans" during his young career.

Italian football club Hellas Verona has been given a one-match partial stadium closure following racist abuse aimed at Brescia striker Mario Balotelli.. Serie A’s disciplinary tribunal on ...

134K discriminatory comments have been made on social media according to Kick It Out, and the most targeted player is Mario Balotelli ...

Despite being recently branded a “rotten apple” by AC Milan owner Silvio Berlusconi, Mario Balotelli was treated to a rapturous reception on his return to the northern Italian city.

Mario Balotelli is the biggest enigma in world football – but his former manager Roberto Mancini believes the striker still has a future at Liverpool. CNN values your feedback 1.

Footballer Mario Balotelli and Matteo Salvini, the leader of the Northern League, have locked horns over comments Balotelli made about immigration, after it was reported he may become captain of ...

Attempting to come up with a single adjective that encompasses Mario Balotelli's persona would be like trying to get Gary Neville to play for Liverpool. Petulant but blessed with no small amount ...

Balotelli counters he has been ill with gastroenteritis and sent a medical certificate to the club excusing him from training for six days. But as the columnist Maurizio Crosetti put it in La ...

Mario Balotelli’s home has always been in Brescia, Italy. Now he plays there, ... “a joke said as a paradox,” designed to “protect the player.” That is the world Balotelli left as a ...

He's an immensely talented footballer on the pitch, but it is his off-field antics which keep all of our eyes on the young Italian. The 21-year-old is never too far from the headlines, with ...

Balotelli was in his early 20s but, in another sense, locked in football’s equivalent of the terrible twos. His fascination, for example, with the automatic sliding doors going into the ...