Mario Balotelli returns home: signs for Genoa

Mario Balotelli You have already found equipment. Without a shirt to wear since last season, the Italian has signed as a free agent for Genoa, a return to the Italian Serie A after four years away from home.

This has been announced by the club, which is currently in relegation positions, and has added six points in nine games. The manager, Alberto Gilardino, hopes that Balotelli’s arrival can add goals to the tally, since the Italian star has 52 in his 141 games in this league.

Balotelli, 34, had worn the club’s shirt until the end of last season. Adana Demirspor Turkish, where he scored seven goals in 16 games before a knee injury slowed him down. Their last match, in May, ended with an expulsion in the first half.

He debuted in Serie A with Inter in 2007under the orders of Roberto Mancini. He won three league titles with that club, including that magical year of the treble in 2010 with José Mourinho.

He then began a journey through the best European leagues, as he met with Mancini at Manchester United, where he won the league and the FA Cup; he signed for Milan; He traveled to Liverpool and spent four seasons in France, first with Nice and then with Olympique Marseille. His last appearance in Serie A was for Brescia, where he scored five goals in 19 games in the 19-20 season, before moving to Monza, in the second division, and ultimately ending up in Turkey and Sion in Switzerland. .

With the national shirt he scored 14 goals in 36 games, was a finalist in Euro 2012 and participated in the 2014 World Cup. Then he was not called up for four years. In 2018 Mancini picked him up, and he played his last game with the national team in September of that year, in the Nations League against Poland.