Data map: Balotelli.
China News Service announced on December 8 that Serie B team Monza had signed a contract with former football superstar Balotelli until June next year.
Once a genius player on the court, a "giant baby" in his life, what kind of experience will he have this time at Monza?
Balotelli, who was born in 1990, was standing right this year. Players who were once at the same level or even not as good as him can still shine in the top league, but he can only continue to wander.
All this is inseparable from his character defect.
Balotelli was once known as the hope of Italian football.
At the age of 15 years and 7 months, Balotelli played on behalf of Lumezzane of Italy's C League, creating a historical record for the Italian professional league.
Data map: Balotelli.
In the summer of 2006, Balotelli joined Serie A giants Inter Milan, and soon emerged in the youth team, won the attention of the first team coach Mancini.
In December 2007, Balotelli completed Inter Milan's first team debut and scored two goals in the Coppa Italia a few days later.
It seems that he has come out of the standard beginning of a football superstar story.
However, in the second season of Inter Milan's first team, he had many conflicts with the team's new coach Mourinho.
At the beginning of the 2008-09 season, Balotelli was banned by Mourinho due to his lack of training attitude.
According to media reports, he even hummed the team anthem of his rivals AC Milan in the locker room on the night of Inter Milan's loss.
However, fortunately, Balotelli played well in those seasons and Inter Milan's record was also outstanding.
Balotelli's lazy training attitude and off-court disturbances can also be regarded as the "bad troubles" of genius.
Data map: Manchester City coach Mancini and Balotelli are on the sidelines.
In July 2010, Balotelli moved to the Premier League team Manchester City, and his teacher Mancini renewed the front.
His second season at Manchester City ushered in an explosion, helping the team win the first Premier League championship trophy.
With Balotelli's outstanding performance in the arena, he has also become a frequent visitor to the Italian national team.
And it was in the national team game that Balotelli left behind an incredible "masterpiece".
In the 2012 European Cup between Italy and Spain, in the 54th minute of the match, Balotelli faced the goalkeeper single-handedly after stealing the ball from the front side of the court, but he turned to take the ball slowly and was finally taken by Spanish defender Ramo Si destroyed the ball.
Back then, the scene called "thinking about life" is still being mentioned now.
Being late for training, staying in nightclubs, and even clashing with head coach Mancini... all kinds of bad habits and evils are often tied to his name.
On the court, he also continued the same, continuing to do those incomprehensible moves.
Data map: Manchester City training base, Balotelli and the coach Mancini broke out in physical conflict.
Since 2012, he has been kicked around like a "ball" between Manchester United and AC Milan.
Although he performed well in the two seasons between the two teams, his off-court disturbances continued.
In 2014, Balotelli joined Liverpool. This experience was not pleasant. Balotelli's training attitude was criticized and his performance on the field was not as good as before.
So when the local media of Liverpool selected the worst team of the Red Army Premier League era this year, Balotelli was on the list.
In 2015, he returned to AC Milan on loan.
According to media reports, in order to prevent him from "every night", AC Milan hired a bodyguard to "protect" him 24 hours a day.
Monza officials announced that Balotelli joined.
After Balotelli's contract expired, neither Liverpool nor AC Milan had the idea of continuing to "hold hands" with him.
In 2016, Balotelli switched to the French Ligue Nice team, and joined the newly promoted Brescia in Serie A in August last year.
As he grows older, the "giant baby" side of Balotelli's character still exists.
In May of this year, he revealed during a video connection with friends on social media that he was isolated at home alone during the epidemic, and embarrassing incidents frequently occurred.
In the first few days, because he could not cook, he almost relied on cardboard to satisfy his hunger, or dig something from the wall to eat.
Now that Balotelli has joined Monza, as he has done so many times, it looks like a chance to start again.
But people don't know whether he can seize this opportunity this time, or whether he still has the ability to seize this opportunity.
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