Mario Balotelli explained why he doesn’t have to envy anything about Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo

Mario Balotelli, controversial and irreverent like few others, never betrays his style on or off the pitch. Recently, the striker was called back up to the Italian national team and made headlines around the world. Now, the striker is back on the front pages for an incredible comparison he made with Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi, owners of several Ballon d’Or trophies.

According to ‘Nene’, if quality is involved within the ‘green’, he is not far from the Manchester United star and the PSG star. In fact, the 31-year-old striker admitted that he wasted chances throughout his career to get a different recognition. Moreover, the ‘Super Mario’ mentioned the trophies that the best in the world receive each year.

“I missed some chances, but I’m sure my quality is at the same level as Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo. I let certain opportunities pass you by, you know? Sometimes happens”Balotelli was honest in a conversation with The Athletic.

“Right now I can’t say he’s as good as Cristiano because Ronaldo won, how many Ballon d’Ors? Five? You can’t compare yourself, nobody can compare. But if we talk about quality, quality to play football, I have nothing to envy them, to be honest “added the World Cup player with the ‘Nazionale’.

However, the current striker from Adana Demirspor was involved in several controversies and this led him to make hasty decisions that, in the long run, hurt him. In this sense, Mario admitted that he should not have left Manchester City.

“My head has led me to make many mistakes. One of the first was leaving Manchester City. In the year and a half that followed I did well at Milan, but City started to grow. I should have done like Agüero and stayed there for a long time.”Held.

Decision that, according to what he assured the American media, has cost him a Ballon d’Or: “I would have been among the stars and, I’m sure, I would have won at least one Ballon d’Or. With the mentality I have today, I’m sure I would have done it”.

In addition, Balotelli spoke of the Champions League that he won with Inter and the league championship that he won with City. “The Champions League is the best thing that can be won with a club, but that league won with City after so long in the club’s history, and also in the last second of the last day, was something crazy”sentenced.