{"id":382703,"date":"2011-04-20T21:09:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-20T21:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/04\/20\/mario-balotelli-wins-25000-then-gives-1000-to-a-tramp\/"},"modified":"2011-04-20T21:09:00","modified_gmt":"2011-04-20T21:09:00","slug":"mario-balotelli-wins-25000-then-gives-1000-to-a-tramp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/04\/20\/mario-balotelli-wins-25000-then-gives-1000-to-a-tramp\/","title":{"rendered":"Mario Balotelli Wins \u00a325,000&#8230;Then Gives \u00a31,000 To A Tramp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div>GENEROUS soccer star Mario Balotelli gave \u00a31,000 to a tramp outside a casino &#8211; after a whopping \u00a325,000 win. The Manchester City striker, 20, shared his windfall on a night out with Blackburn Rovers ace Chris Samba.<\/p>\n<p>Balotelli &#8211; who earns \u00a3100,000 a week after signing from Inter Milan for \u00a324million last year &#8211; is said to often give cash to homeless people he sees around Manchester. His latest act of kindness came outside the city&#8217;s 235 Casino last week.<\/p>\n<p>A source said: &#8220;Mario is really generous. He always hands \u00a320 notes to the Big Issue boys without even taking the magazine. There&#8217;s a guy he always sees around town with ginger dreadlocks and a beard. He carries his possessions in two carrier bags.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He was outside the club in the early hours so Mario handed him a wad of notes after his big win. The tramp couldn&#8217;t believe his luck. It was enough to keep him going for months.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Balotelli has frequently hit the headlines for his off-the-pitch antics. At the weekend he had a scuffle with Manchester United defender Rio Ferdinand after City&#8217;s 1-0 win in the FA Cup semi-final. Last month he got an official warning for throwing darts at youth team players at his club&#8217;s Carrington training ground. That followed his sending off against Dynamo Kiev. His fines now total \u00a3300,000 in one season.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/201ed65bget.media_2-150x90.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>See the article here:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> GENEROUS soccer star Mario Balotelli gave \u00a31,000 to a tramp outside a casino &#8211; after a whopping \u00a325,000 win. The Manchester City striker, 20, shared his windfall on a night out with Blackburn Rovers ace Chris Samba. Balotelli &#8211; who earns \u00a3100,000 a week after signing from Inter Milan for \u00a324million last year &#8211; is said to often give cash to homeless people he sees around Manchester. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-382703","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-business"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Mario Balotelli Wins \u00a325,000...Then Gives \u00a31,000 To A Tramp - 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\/04\/20\/mario-balotelli-wins-25000-then-gives-1000-to-a-tramp\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Mario Balotelli Wins \u00a325,000...Then Gives \u00a31,000 To A Tramp - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"GENEROUS soccer star Mario Balotelli gave \u00a31,000 to a tramp outside a casino - after a whopping \u00a325,000 win. 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