Berlusconi brothers in hot water over Balotelli
ROME (Reuters) Silvio Berlusconi and his brother Paolo are getting heat over maverick Italy Black Friday Canada Goose sale striker Mario Balotelli, with one accused of racism and the other canada goose coats on sale of signing him for their club AC Milan only to win votes in this month national election.
Italy’s former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi speaks during a political rally in Milan February 3, 2013.
now let go and watch the little black boy of the family, the crazy head, Paolo Berlusconi says in the canada goose uk black friday video.
A spokesman for the Serie A club said on Wednesday there would be canada goose uk outlet no comment on the video, which was recorded on the day Balotelli made his debut for AC canada goose clearance Milan after being transferred from English Premier buy canada goose jacket cheap League club City last month.
Criticism of Paolo Canada Goose online Berlusconi remarks took off after foreign media began writing about the video, which had received relatively Canada Goose Jackets little attention in the Italian press in the past few days.
is back in Italy for 2 minutes and already had racist comments Canada Goose sale made about him. Why do black players even play in Italy?, one person tweeted.
Other tweets slammed the comments as and
Paolo Berlusconi smokes a cigar before the match between AC Milan and Udinese in their Italian serie A soccer match at Giuseppe Meazza stadium in Milan, September 21, 2011. REUTERS/Stefano Rellandini
Balotelli, playing three canada goose factory sale days after leaving City, scored both goals in Milan 2 1 home victory over Udinese on Sunday.
UNDER FIRE After making the black boy remark, cheap canada goose uk Paolo Berlusconi told his listeners at the event for a local center right candidate: the young ladies are invited as well you can even have a chance to meet the president an apparent reference to his older brother Silvio, who is club president.
While Paolo was taking the heat for his comments, Silvio Berlusconi was still under fire over his motivation for bringing the hot tempered Balotelli back canadian goose jacket to Italy in the first place, having previously said Milan did not need a apple
For the past week, former prime minister Silvio has been the regular butt of jokes buy canada goose jacket by comedians and attacks by his political rivals over the transfer, which canada goose they see as a clear attempt to woo Italian soccer fans to vote for his center Canada Goose Parka right coalition.
Last week L the paper of the main center left party, said Canada Goose Outlet nationwide fans canada goose coats of Milan, who won the Italian championship in 2011 but are now fourth in the Serie A standings, could influence about 1.3 percent of the vote.
Italy’s national canada goose black friday sale soccer team player Mario Balotelli looks on at the end of a training session at canada goose clearance sale Coverciano training centre near Florence February 4, 2013. REUTERS/Max Rossi
L said thrusting Balotelli into the election campaign was devil touch a play on words because Milan mascot is a red and black devil.
Another paper said the move was so blatantly political that it called Balotelli Mario, in an editorial.
MONKEY CHANTS Balotelli is no stranger to racism, real or perceived.
He was born in Sicily to Ghanaian parents and given up for adoption to an Italian family at the age of three. He grew Canada Goose Coats On Sale up in canada goose store northern Italy and became an Italian canada goose uk shop citizen at 18.
Both in Italy and during the 2012 European soccer Championship co hosted by Poland and the Ukraine he endured monkey chants and bananas thrown on the pitch.
He seemed to anger racist fans more cheap Canada Goose than other black players in Italy, precisely because he is Italian and not a foreigner.
When Balotelli played for Inter Milan, rival Juventus fans Canada Goose Online once shouted: are no black Italians.
Last month Silvio Berlusconi defended his players for walking off the pitch during a friendly match against lower division team Pro Patria, when Ghanaian midfielder Kevin Prince Boateng and two of his team uk canada goose mates were uk canada https://www.canadagoosetomall.com goose outlet subjected to monkey chants and jeers from opposition fans.
