Balotelli: "I am Italian and should return to the national team"

MILAN – "I'm not saying that I am different from the other players with the same choirs, the same howls but the problem is that I am Italian, I should be back on the national team": says Mario Balotelli in an excerpt of the interview given to Le Iene and aired this evening. '' The few, because I repeat, there are always few fools – adds Balotelli – but they are there, they have done so they are the heads of c …. With a racist background there is, there has never been and never will be ''.

"I did not accuse Verona"

"It's not nice but I didn't accuse Verona, I didn't accuse the Curva del Verona. I accused a few idiots who did it and heard them. I accused those balls and that's it. Certainly there were not two or three because I heard them from the field "": Mario Balotelli says it in an extract from the interview with Le Iene and airs this evening. '' I tell the truth: the Verona stadium and the Verona fans – he adds – are also nice with their teasing. But if you want to distract a player, you can do it in a thousand ways but not like that. That's not good. So we are not there ".

Mayor Verona: "Tribuna closed is Kafkaesque affair"

"Expected outcome for a Kafkaesque affair". Thus the mayor of Verona, Federico Sboarina, on the ruling of the Serie A sports judge who decreed the closure for a round of the East Armchairs sector of the Bentegodi stadium for racist choirs against Mario Balotelli. "Verona – continued Sboarina – is not racist and neither are families, children and historical subscribers who sit comfortably in the East Tribune, which is expressly dedicated to this public. These are the people who will pay the consequences of a senseless affair" . The mayor of Verona then reiterated: "There were no choirs, I have been saying since Sunday that there have been individuals and a few people who, if identified, will have to take responsibility and suffer the consequences. In the same way, those who pronounced sentences unjustifiable, which I refuse and which are not part of the Veronese way of thinking, we will have to take our responsibilities and suffer the consequences, "Sboarina concluded.

Case Balotelli, the decision of the sports judge