In an extensive interview with Time Magazine, Mario Balotelli said racists are stupid whose ways are impossible to change.
The Manchester City’s striker has suffered racist abuse especially from his homeland Italy, while he was playing for Inter Milan.
In his view, “Racist people are few and you can do nothing against [to change] them.”
“You can talk, you can do what you want, but you can’t do anything because they are just stupid people.
“When I wasn’t famous, I had a lot of friends, almost all of them Italian,” he states. “The racism only started when I started to play football.”
“But me, personally, I hope I can help Italy to be a modern country like England or America.”
He spoke further about how proud he was to see a black man like Barack Obama become the president of the United States. And said he hope to meet him sometime in the future.
“I was really happy and I think it’s something different,” said Balotelli.
“I was really happy to see a black man be the chief [commander-in-chief]. I would like to meet him.”
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His relationship with Robert Mancini, City manager, has not been a very good one. However, Balotelli says he sees him as a father.
“Now I don’t go out,” said Balotelli. “This year I don’t go out, so it can rain as much as it wants, because I’m in the house!
“My relationship with Mancini is really important, He’s known me since I was young and he’s like a father to me.
“I used to play with the young children at Inter Milan, so I know him very well and I can tell him anything.”