{"id":334805,"date":"2011-03-24T10:40:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-24T10:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/03\/24\/manchester-city%e2%80%99s-mario-balotelli-claims-meeting-brazil-legend-ronaldo-would-improve-his-behaviour\/"},"modified":"2011-03-24T10:40:00","modified_gmt":"2011-03-24T10:40:00","slug":"manchester-citys-mario-balotelli-claims-meeting-brazil-legend-ronaldo-would-improve-his-behaviour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/03\/24\/manchester-citys-mario-balotelli-claims-meeting-brazil-legend-ronaldo-would-improve-his-behaviour\/","title":{"rendered":"Manchester City\u2019s Mario Balotelli claims meeting Brazil legend Ronaldo would improve his behaviour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<h3>By Phil Haigh<\/h3>\n<h4>24 Mar 2011 10:40:00<\/h4>\n<\/p>\n<div readability=\"65.8333333333\">\n<div readability=\"12.7161572052\">\n<div>\n                <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Mario Balotelli - Manchester City (Getty Images)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/b1331e4c126485_news.jpg.jpg\" \/><\/p><\/div>\n<p>Mario Balotelli &#8211; Manchester City (Getty Images)<\/p>\n<h4>Related Links<\/h4>\n<h4>Teams<\/h4>\n<h4>Players<\/h4>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>        <span readability=\"32.3800876644\"><\/p>\n<p>        <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/teams\/england\/109\/man-city\">Manchester City<\/a>&#8216;s controversial striker <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/people\/italy\/16127\/mario-barwuah-balotelli\">Mario Balotelli<\/a> has claimed that his unpredicatable behaviour would be cured simply by meeting his idol, the recently retired Brazilian icon Ronaldo.<\/p>\n<p>The latest in a string of bizarre events since arriving in Manchester was Balotelli&#8217;s challenge on Goran Popov, earning him a straight red card against Dinamo Kiev in the Europa League and causing manager Roberto Mancini to publicly criticise the player.<\/p>\n<p>The Italy international believes his antics would come to an end though, if he had the chance to meet Ronaldo.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on Italian TV, he said: \u201cIf you introduce me to Ronaldo, I swear I\u2019ll behave until I give up  playing football.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have never met him, but when  you see the idol of a lifetime it can change you. It can change your way  of being.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don\u2019t know how I can explain it. There are many  great players, but Ronaldo was the greatest and so one word from him is  worth more than a thousand of all the others.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Balotelli does not believe it will take much to sort out his problems, and has reasurred his fans that he plans to stay at City for the foreseeable future.<\/p>\n<p>He continued: &#8220;In any case, I already behave myself fairly well, but I\u2019ll try to  stop doing those stupid little things, but these things  happen.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019ll soon see the real Mario on the field!<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have a five-year contract at Manchester &#8211; where am I going?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019d buy a house in Naples to go there on holiday, but not to play right now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>        <\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/3b4e10aebeacon.dll_463.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>See original here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/news\/2896\/premier-league\/2011\/03\/24\/2408967\/manchester-citys-mario-balotelli-claims-meeting-brazil\" title=\"Manchester City\u2019s Mario Balotelli claims meeting Brazil legend Ronaldo would improve his behaviour\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Manchester City\u2019s Mario Balotelli claims meeting Brazil legend Ronaldo would improve his behaviour<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> By Phil Haigh 24 Mar 2011 10:40:00 Mario Balotelli &#8211; Manchester City (Getty Images) Related Links Teams Players Manchester City &#8216;s controversial striker Mario Balotelli has claimed that his unpredicatable behaviour would be cured simply by meeting his idol, the recently retired Brazilian icon Ronaldo. The latest in a string of bizarre events since arriving in Manchester was Balotelli&#8217;s challenge on Goran Popov, earning him a straight red card against Dinamo Kiev in the Europa League and causing manager Roberto Mancini to publicly criticise the player. The Italy international believes his antics would come to an end though, if he had the chance to meet Ronaldo<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-334805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Manchester City\u2019s Mario Balotelli claims meeting Brazil legend Ronaldo would improve his behaviour - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/03\/24\/manchester-citys-mario-balotelli-claims-meeting-brazil-legend-ronaldo-would-improve-his-behaviour\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Manchester City\u2019s Mario Balotelli claims meeting Brazil legend Ronaldo would improve his behaviour - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"By Phil Haigh 24 Mar 2011 10:40:00 Mario Balotelli - Manchester City (Getty Images) Related Links Teams Players Manchester City &#039;s controversial striker Mario Balotelli has claimed that his unpredicatable behaviour would be cured simply by meeting his idol, the recently retired Brazilian icon Ronaldo. 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