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Alberto Zangrillo, scientific President of Genoa, says that he doesn’t sleep at night. How hard it is to get heavy sleep because Genoa’s light dreams have the features of Mario Balotelli. Which is that girlfriend with whom the story didn’t go as the sweet kisses of youth promised. Which was no longer the thrill and the breeze of an overwhelming passion of the first months, but a storm, a rough sea, and shipwrecks, and breakups, and tears, and separations, and suitcases, and then again love, and those kisses, and then the goodbyes, and then the door that slams, which then reopens and so on in the elastic band that twists around a heart that does not listen to reasons and reason.
But what a bad boy
For this reason long live Mario Balotelli still in Serie A. For the loves that never end, that make immense turns, upside downs, somersaults, that you know should end and instead you cling to that breath of hope that the right riff will never arrive and everyone is taken aback. Also because Balo has been portrayed as the bad boy par excellence of modern football, and instead if anything he has been guilty of light-heartedness, nonsense, then perhaps even parentheses of lack of professionalism and excesses of superficiality. However, he didn’t pollute football, he didn’t mess up, never, he wasn’t guilty of disloyalty, he didn’t cheat, he didn’t bluff. Balo has never had a mask, let alone makeup and a poker face.
Genoa needs him
Also for this reason, long live that dream, that hope, because youth is fleeting but there is always a however. Genoa in terms of ownership is a worrying tragedy, on a sporting level they have lost two stars in Gudmundsson and Retegui and have clung to Pinamonti and Vitinha who need the team and do not only have the shots of individuals and instead the team does not turn and then Vitinha broke, and then Genoa broke down and with it so did Alberto Gilardino’s violin. For this you need someone capable of doing solos. This is why we need Balotelli, who will need to be reconditioned, put back on the field, and made an athlete worthy of our championship again. But still leave room for dreamers, for those who hope, for those who believe in it to the end, in this football of numbers and calculations, of algorithms and correspondence referees.