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Balotelli Has Harsh Words For His Real Parents

Inter striker Mario Balotelli has launched a stinging attack on his biological parents, accusing them of only wanting to know him now because of the fame and money he is earning as a professional footballer...

Nov 6, 2008 11:21:03 AM

Inter starlet Mario Balotelli failed to make the desired impact during his side's 1-1 home draw with Werder Bremen.

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Inter starlet Mario Balotelli failed to make the desired impact during his side's 1-1 home draw with Werder Bremen.

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Mario Barwuah Balotelli

Mario Balotelli, the Inter Milan striker, was brought up by foster parents after his natural mother and father put him up for adoption when he was two years old.

It seems as if the relationship between the striker and his real parents is distinctly cold following his latest revelations.

"I think that if I didn't become Mario Balotelli, Mr and Mrs Barwuah (his biological parents) would not have cared about me for anything," Balotelli is quoted as saying in Ilsussidiario.net.

"I was adopted by the Balotelli family when I was just two. Why? No-one has ever asked the Barwuahs and now they have interviews with papers holding my photo in an Inter shirt with sad faces.

"Why did they never make a request to the courts to take me back once I had recovered from illness?

"My adopted parents used to take me there to see them but they were never at home, now I am a Serie A player they want to come and find me."

Balotelli was born in Palermo to the Barwuahs but he was brought up in Brescia by the Balotelli family who raised him and cared for him over the years.

The striker is clearly bitter about the way his natural mother and father have treated him.

Salvatore Landolina