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FOOTBALL THRIVES ON THE ECCENTRIC CAST OF CHARACTERS on its side. There are rival kings like Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo leading their mighty armies armed to the teeth with soldiers and assassins willing and able to win any battle. We're looking at traveled generals in the form of the likes of Pep Guardiola, Jose Mourinho and Marcelo Bielsa, each with their unique way of directing strategies to win at all costs. As patrons of football's ominous sirens, we're drawn to the game's antiheroes who shock audiences every time the game reveals its sinister smile thanks to Luis Suárez. The cast of characters is vast, but there is such a typical character archetype in the production's grand scheme that one man fills the role before everyone else. The court needs its court jester and football has graciously offered Mario Balotelli.

Historically, the court jester was considered a performer allowed to be a distractor allowed to act excessively. Mario Balotelli is football's ultimate trickster, but make no mistake, he's no jester. The man behaves in such a way that his teammates and the crowd are at his mercy. When he is ready to perform to his potential, he is praised, loved and applauded. But in case things go wrong, he is hated, mocked and the recipient of unanimous sneers.

Balotelli has entered a situation at Liverpool where his two most recent top strikers have either been seen as Judas, played by Fernando Torres, or the heroic diablo hybrid himself, Luis Suárez. With a storied history of talismanic forwards, it's perhaps no surprise that the Liverpool faithful feel their new striker can handle anything thrown at him or drawn to himself.

Born to Ghanaian immigrants in Palermo, Sicily, Mario Balotelli was placed in the care of Italian adoptive parents at the age of three. As one of the most polarizing individuals in football and like many outlier individuals in the game, Balotelli possesses the unique ability to play hero and villain in every game in one act of ninety minutes. Attention and abuse are both undeserved and well deserved. The juxtaposition of such logic has its roots in the financial madness of world football. When a man like Mario Balotelli became present at Internazionale, the Italian footballing world was thrown into the spotlight as the culture shock of controversy once again breathed life into racist views directed against the young Italian.

When Balotelli became the youngest Inter player to score in the UEFA Champions League, the player rising in potential and expectations entered a world of madness that made him the scapegoat vitriolic tongues of Italy and racist fanatics and factions. Being the target of racist chants puts Balotelli in a perpetual state of mind that fans and media personalities find it hard to understand when passing judgment. The more talented a player is, the more jaded he becomes when things go wrong, to the frustration of everyone else - that's a specialty of Balotelli. Players with a mismatch between talent and self-control view the game differently. What makes them great also motivates them.

Balotelli has long been known for his discipline issues with every team he has played for. Part of what many don't understand from the outside is where that threshold is at any given time. However, beyond Mario Balotelli, the footballer is a shackled youngster with his own volatile personality, naivety and personal baggage. His borderline teenage ego locks horns with coaches whose own egos all flatten by opposing their directive. Many of Balotelli's crazy moments and his prideful battles are the unpredictable I...