Stoke have taken Enoch Balotelli – younger brother of Manchester City striker Mario – on trial.<\/p>\n
The 19-year-old forward played 82 minutes for the Potters’ reserves on Wednesday night at Burton Albion.<\/p>\n
Stoke academy coach Dave Kevan told the Sentinel: “He’s been with training with us for a while and it was good to give him a run out.<\/p>\n
“He’s a good boy but a little bit raw at the moment. We will just have to see how things go.”<\/p>\n
Enoch has been training with Stoke for the last three weeks and was linked with a move to Napoli earlier in the summer.<\/p>\n
He showed some neat touches and some showboating Mario would have been proud of before coming off with cramp with eight minutes left of the goalless draw.<\/p>\n
Enoch was born in Ghana before moving to Italy with Mario where the duo were adopted.<\/p>\n
If the younger Balotelli does sign for Stoke, the Balotellis will become the latest in a line of brothers to play in the Premier League.<\/p>\n
Some of the more notable families include Gary and Phil Neville, Rio and Anton Ferdinand, Shaun and Bradley Wright-Phillips and Manchester United twins Fabio and Rafael da Silva.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Stoke have taken Enoch Balotelli – younger brother of Manchester City striker Mario – on trial. The 19-year-old forward played 82 minutes for the Potters’ reserves on Wednesday night at Burton Albion. Stoke academy coach Dave Kevan told the Sentinel: “He’s been with training with us for a while and it was good to give him a run out<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"\n