Football wild-child Mario Balotelli would otherwise "be a UFC fighter"

speeds · Jul 27, 2012

http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/manchester-citys-mario-balotelli-reveals-1173631

After a strangely quiet few weeks since Euro 2012, Mario Balotelli has burst back into the limelight - claiming he'd like to be a UFC fighter if he hasn't made the grade at football.

Balotelli, who won the Premier League with Manchester City last season and helped Italy to the final of Euro 2012 this summer, is more famous for his madcap antics and a temperament that has brought 20 yellow cards and two red cards in his two seasons at City.

And now he's revealed that fiery streak could have been put to a very different use in mixed martial arts if the calcio hadn't panned out.

"If I wasn't a footballer, I probably would've wanted to be a UFC fighter," he said at an event for City's shirt manufacturers Umbro. "I really love it."

The UFC features the best all-round combat sportsmen in the world, with superstars including Canadian Georges St. Pierre, Brazilian Anderson Silva and Britain's own Michael Bisping.

Balotelli certainly has the physique for the fight game, as he proved with his famous topless goal celebration after netting for Italy in their semi-final win over Germany at the Euros.
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OLDSchool_BlazerFAN · Jul 29, 2012

Soccer players do make great fighters.

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