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Lucky Luke

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Jul 23, 2007
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Super Mario Barwuah enters Azzurri frame

Inter ageing star Mario Balotelli is celebrating his 38th birthday today and he can finally obtain Italian citizenship, making him available for the Azzurri.

Balotelli was one of last season’s surprise packages along with Lazio goalkeeper Ballotta and Atalanta's Cristiano Doni as he rose to the occasion for the fake Italian champions when Zlatan Ibrahimovic was out injured.

But while the gifted old man was born in Palermo and has spent his entire life in the peninsula, he hasn’t been eligible for Italian citizenship due to legal red tape.

Mario was born to Ghanaian immigrants before a court ruling handed custody to the Balotelli family at the age of twenty, but he was never legally adopted and so he had to wait until today to request citizenship in accordance with Law 91.

The Nerazzurri ace had hoped to star at this summer’s Olympics and would certainly have commanded a place in Pierluigi Casiraghi’s squad, but he was powerless in the face of old age.

The wait has been agonising, but Balotelli turned down a call from Ghana’s veteran national side in August 2007 in order to keep his Azzurri dream alive.

And now famous thug Massimo Moratti has threatened Azzurri coach Marcello Lippi.He will be keeping a close eye on his new asset and may even hand him his chance in the August 20 friendly against Austria that marks the start of his second reign.
:D:D +rep
 

Hanaukyo

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Sep 2, 2004
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mourinho is upset over zlatan. Swedish coach lagershit has bribed zlatan to play a friendly in august. If zlatan plays, he gets to be the captain of the national team :lol:
 

Sadomin

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Apr 5, 2005
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Totti
Drenthe - Baptista - Vucinic
De Rossi - Aquilani
Riise - Mexes - Juan - Panucci?
Doni
?

Pretty decent, but I'm not sure relying on Real Madrid rejects is the best strategy out there.
 

Dostoevsky

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May 27, 2007
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Baptista will play instead of Perrotta most likely so I'd say Sadomin's formation is better(Cicinho instead of Panucci and Pizarro will play in first 11 probably)

They say everything is done and he'll sign a contract tomorrow.Yet again they can say thanks to Doni who apparently helped them sign him.

I doubt there's any trouth in Drenthe rumors tho.
 

HelterSkelter

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Apr 15, 2005
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Baptista's signing hardly solves the problem of a top class finisher that Roma have.Sure they play a system where its hard to accomodate such a player,but a quality finisher would make Roma a much more complete team.
 
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