MARIO BALOTELLI was lucky to escape serious injury after crashing his £100,000 Audi Q8 into a wall.
The terrifying accident, which nobody else is believed to have been involved in, happened at 8.30pm on Thursday in the Italian’s hometown of Brescia.
SportMediaset are claiming that the 33-year-old former Manchester City striker allegedly then refused to take a breathalyser test after crashing his black motor into a wall.
According to the Italian newspaper Fatto Quotidiano, the ex-Liverpool ace lost control of his Audi Q8 and smashed it into a wall.
The impact of the collision forced the air bags to go off as medics quickly raced to the scene after being called.
Balotelli, who has previously dated Belgian model Fanny Neguesha and was recently spotted with a beautiful mysterious blonde, managed to climb out of the wreckage and was then attended to by paramedics after lying on the ground.
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Then SportMediaset say that local cops tried to give Balotelli a breathalyser test, but the Italian international declined.
The news outlet then states that led to police confiscating Balotelli’s driving licence.
The 2012 Premier League title winner’s brother, Enock Barwuah, is then said to have arrived on the scene of the crash after returning from training with his local football team and then took Balotelli home.
Balotelli, who now plays for Turkish side Adana Demirspor, is back home in Italy while he recovers from an injury.
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The controversial ace has just recently returned to Turkish Super Lig side Adana Demirspor after previously spending the 2021/22 season there.
Balotelli, who recently sold his fleet of supercars including a Ferrari and Lamborghini after losing his passion for them, left City for AC Milan in 2013 but surprisingly returned to the Prem a year later with Liverpool.
He struggled to impress at Anfield, scoring just once in 16 games, before going back to Milan on loan.
Balotelli did enjoy a three-year spell at Nice after leaving Liverpool in 2014, making 76 appearances and scoring 43 goals before he moved across the French Riviera to rivals Marseille for a season.
It was a short but successful spell having scored eight goals in 15 appearances, but he returned to Italy for stints with Brescia and Monza before going to Turkey for his first spell at Adana.
He then joined Swiss Super League club Sion for what turned out to be a disastrous season but appears to now be trying to resurrect himself in Turkey.
Balotelli has never been far from the headlines throughout his career for his antics both on and off the pitch.
During his time at City, he infamously set off fireworks in his rented home causing thousands of pounds worth of damage – then days later he became the face of a firework safety campaign.
Balotelli also started 2020 in typically bumpy fashion after being involved in a car accident at 6am on New Year’s Day.
This time he was in the passenger seat of a silver Fiat 500 Abarth when it crashed into the gate of a bakery in northern Brescia.
A friend of the player was driving the vehicle after an evening celebrating the new year in a nightclub when it bounced off the kerb before rolling into the gate.
Neither man inside the car was hurt and Balotelli completed his journey to his house in nearby Mompiano on foot before heading to bed.
More recently, a video surfaced of Balotelli just weeks after joining Sion appearing to stumble out of a bar in Lausanne with his arms draped around a lady in red and another male.
That clip quickly went viral and he soon found himself in the headlines again.
He missed training for several days afterwards, but the club would claim that was down to him suffering bronchitis.
Balotelli once allegedly paid a bar owner £1,800 to drive a moped into the sea in just his pants.
He is claimed to have paid the man £1,800 back in 2019 to drive his moped over the edge of a marina in Naples before he published the footage on Instagram, showing the crowd that had gathered to watch the daring stunt.
Later on, he posted a clip of attempting to start up the rescued moped.
Incredibly, after a few splutters, the engine kicked into gear and it was working once more.
Balotelli and former City boss Roberto Mancini were also spotted GRAPPLING during a training session in front of the cameras back in their time together at the Etihad.
Mancini later described the incident saying that it was sparked by a crunching tackle from the forward on Gael Clichy.
He said: “In a training session, I said to players not to make stupid tackles on Gael Clichy because he was just coming back from injury. And then, Mario made a strong tackle on him. I was furious.
“I grabbed him by the collar wanting to push him but he is so strong physically I couldn’t move him.
“From seeing the pictures, you would think that we came to blows but nothing happened.
“He came into conflict with some team-mates because of his behaviour and he wanted to return to Italy.
“I was disappointed that he wanted to leave because he should have done so much more in an extraordinary championship.”
Source: Soccer - thesun.co.uk
