Former Manchester City and Liverpool striker Balotelli has led a storied career across the globe, and is never far from a headline. The Italy international has been in fine form since signing for Marseille in January after terminating his contract with Nice, scoring three goals in four games for the Ligue 1 club. Balotelli added another goal to his collection on Sunday night, acrobatically volleying home from close range against St Etienne following a corner after 12 minutes.
Man City fans (and a fair few Manchester United supporters too) will remember the 28-year-old’s iconic goal celebration during City’s 6-1 win at Old Trafford back in 2011 by shooting down newspaper reports with a ‘Why always me?’ t-shirt underneath his kit. We’ll never forget his “Why always me?” undershirt when he opened the scoring in Manchester City’s memorable 6-1 demolition of rivals United at Old Trafford, as well as Balo hulking up in Italy’s Euro 2012 semi-final defeat of Germany.
And Balotelli added another memorable celebration to the collection on Sunday by following Francesco Totti’s example and whipping out a phone to take an on-pitch selfie with his Marseille team-mates. The celebration appeared to be pre-planned as a pitch-side cameraman held out a phone for the onushing Balotelli, who duly uploaded the footage to Marseille’s Instagram page.
The former Inter Milan striker, Mario Balotelli has well and truly taken the Internet by storm with his antics and he’s now putting pressure on EA Sports to add the celebration on FIFA by tagging them on his Instagram post. FIFA fans and lovers are well in favour of Balo’s new goal celebration being included in FIFA – just imagine the pure scenes of getting your player to whip out his phone and take a selfie when you’ve just bagged a last-gasp rebound winner? Incredible shithousery.
Paul Pogba’s ‘Billy dance’ is on the game, as is Jesse Lingard’s trademark ‘JLingz’ celebration but FIFA 19 is in need of something a little different celebration-wise and Balotelli might just have provided it. Make it happen, EA.It should be noted, however, that the Italian international ‘Balo’ was following in the footsteps of another Italian with his celebration. Former Roma captain and legend Francesco Totti was the first man to grab his iPhone and take a picture after scoring a goal, having done so following his glorious acrobatic volleyed equaliser in the Rome derby back in 2015.