Mario Balotelli, the controversial 32-year-old Italian striker who played for the Swiss football club Sion this season, punched his sports director in the face during the season.
The newspaper ‘Blick’ reported that Balotelli and the sports director Barthélémy Constantin decided to go to a costume party dressed as Pikachu from the Pokémon series and as a character from the Spanish series ‘La Casa de Papel’.
But the strategy failed and one of the guests recognized Balotelli, who tried to photograph him while bothering the Italian footballer, and the situation eventually led to a verbal confrontation first, and then a fight.
In the middle of the fight, Mario Balotelli punched Barthélémy Constantin, who a week later had to sit on the bench with a bloodstained eye during the match between Sion and St. Gallen.
Mario Balotelli goes down with Sion: “He believes that the rules that govern a group are made for others”
This season, Mario Balotelli barely managed to score 6 goals in 18 matches with Sion, which eventually got relegated to the second division.
Mario Balotelli did not return the trust placed in him, nor rewarded the great effort we made. This boy believes that the rules that govern a group are made for others. If agents are interested in placing him in a country that does not value money as much as we do, maybe he will play again soon. Or not. Maybe it’s better that way,” said President Christian Constantin after Sion’s 3-0 defeat against Servette.
