Today, we compare a great player in Mario Gomez to a crazy Italian, Mario Balotelli. Clearly I like Mario Gomez much better and I believe Mario Balotelli is crazy and mean. Lets see if the background checks, stats and all other information back up my opinion.Now we go on a journey through the life and career of both these players.
Balotelli was born in Palermo, Italy on August 12, 1990.He was the son of two imagrants for Ghana. He had a life threatning illness that caused him to have many operations on his stomach when he was just three. His parents tried hard to take care of him but it was hard in a small house with very little money. They gave Mario to the Balotelli family to take care of him during the week days and every weekend he would go back to his real parents. Later it was arranged that he would just parmently stay with the Balotelli's. People say that his parents just simply left him at the door or left him on the road for somebody to pick up, but I'm sorry guys he parents gave him away not because they hated him, but they couldn't take care of him. So don't make up exscuses that he "Got abandoned". Balotelli now plays for Manchester City and plays for the Italian National team. All his fans say that his crazy habits and weird acting is because of his childhood, his illness and the racsist comments he recieves. I think that might have the simplest of things to do with it , but mostly he is just a plain jerk. He his the hottest headed football player I have ever seen and a horrible sport (oh wait are those the same things, oh well). Also, what explains his crazyness? He has set his own house on fire, he threw darts at youth players, and wrecked his car. He has tackled Arsenal player Alex Song hardly for no apparent reason. He took off his shirt after scoring against Germany and flexed his imaginary huge muscles. (In his head he was thinking I wish I actually had real muscles). Also who remembers him wearing an AC Milan shirt to an interview when he was playing for Inter? Yes all those things are things Mario Balotelli has done, and the list continues, but I would get way to tired or my fingers may fall off before I finish. Now how about Mario Gomez's back ground check and then we will go to what will really decide it, stats.
Mario Gomez sounds very very Spanish, but that is because is father actually was Spanish and his mother was German. He was born on July 10, 1985. In 2004 he made his first career appearance for Stuttgart against Hamburg SV. As a kid Gomez grew up only 95km out of Stuttgart. He played in Stuttgart for 6 seasons. He did not start any games in the first two seasons but he was subed in a total of ten times in both his first two seasons combined. Then after his 6 seasons with Stuttgart in 2009 he moved to the team where he still plays today, Bayern Munich. It really was not until the second season at Bayern Munich when he really established him self as a starter. He could have either played for Germany or Spain, but he chose to play for Germany. He is a very good ariel threat and is known to be able to shoot with either foot. As you can see I could not find anything that bad or crazy about Mario Gomez, probably because he does not have anything crazy or bad about him. Now its time to really prove how good Gomez is by showing the stats!
In the last season Mario Gomez had more starts than Balotelli,but Balotelli did come off the bench a lot. Balotelli might have had more starts if he and the manager got along a little better and if he wasn't just plain crazy! Gomez in all competions (not international) combined started 45 , while Balotelli started 22 . Gomez off the bench 5, Balotelli 13. So overall Gomez had 50 club appearances, while Balotelli had 35 club appearances. In all CLUB matches Gomez scored 40 goals, while Balotelli scored 18. Now you could argue well Balotelli had less chances well I blame that on him for being a bad guy and do not blame Man City's Manager. If you want to go to assists Gomez had 4, Balotelli had 2. If you want to see all the stats then here is the link. Mario Gomez. Mario Balotelli.
It includes their National team stats too.
Balotelli's Itlaly side did make it to the finals this year in the Euro cup and did beat Gomez's Germany but if you think Balotelli was a major part of that it is your opinion!
That is where I end todays blog, thank you for reading!
Mario & Balotelli have not done thing extraordinary on the playing field to be called genius as yet. Only time will tell.
ReplyDeleteScoring goals out of the blues, making a telling pass,will eventually gain players this recognition.
If you get chance to see the late George Best, Pele, the Holland Italian and the Brazalians during 70s - 80s you will know what I mean.
Let us wait and see who 'arrives" in the next World Cup - The World awaits
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