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Well, today’s Champions League semifinal match between Barcelona and Inter Milan started out the way most people would have expected and finished drastically different than anyone who have imagined.
It was just in the 19th minute that Barca’s Pedro slipped one past Julio Cesar to go up 1-0. Only 11 minutes later, Inter’s Wesley Sneijder scored first for Inter. Three minutes into the second half, it was Maicon who found the back of the net to put Inter up on top of the favored Barcelona. Then, with a half hour remaining in the match, Diego Milito would score the match’s final goal giving Inter Milan a 3-1 win.
Inter will head to Spain to battle Barca in Camp Nou next week.
As intense of a match of this proved to be, it wasn’t until after the final whistle that things truly got heated.
Barca forward Zlatan Ibrahimovic said that he saw what happened in the Inter tunnel after Mario Balotelli threw off his jersey and flipped off Inter fans.
“I saw that Materazzi was attacking him in the players’ tunnel and I’ve never seen anything like it,” Ibrahimovic told RAI. “If I were him, I’d have left Mario alone, but Materazzi was attacking him and I was stunned. If Materazzi had attacked me like that, I would’ve decked him in a second!
“Materazzi was causing all sorts of trouble and in the Barcelona locker room we were amazed, all talking about it. A player should be proud after a win, not chase down a 20-year-old to berate him.”
Apparently, Super Mario wasn’t a fan of how fans reacted after being subbed into the match late in the second half. After volleying a shot wide in the final moments of the game, another round of taunting this Serie A bad boy began. Despite crowd reaction, players and officials have made it known that this was no excuse to respond the way he did this afternoon.
Captain Javier Zanetti said: ”(I am) disappointed that a celebration was ruined with something like this. If the fans whistle at him he’s got to understand that it could depend on a lot of different things. We’ve always stood by him.”
The Daily Telegraph quoted Stankovic as saying: “He’s like a child. I’m a father of three kids and we can’t take him by the collar, too. He’s suffered, but I’ve suffered too with the fans. He’s reacted poorly, but he’s still got time.”
Manager Jose Mourinho also had a few words concerning Balotelli.
“I have been at Inter since July 2008,” he said. “If I try to remember all the times I’ve tried to educate a great talent, there are thousands and thousands. This is a Champions League semi-final, the second most important tie in club football, and something ugly happened.”
Inter CEO Ernesto Paolillo says that Inter will be taking action against Balotelli due to his continued antics that followed the match.
“Balotelli’s gesture was terrible. Just terrible,” he said. “It is something we are going to have to discuss. Will he be punished? Absolutely, yes.”
3 Comments
2010-04-21
05:02:31
That slug Zlatan should worry about another pathetic performance.
As for Balotelli, I dont care who you are you dont give your fans the finger and then throw your shirt on the floor.
Matarazzi is a douche but Zanetti, Stankovic and him are veterans who have to do the things the coach cant do with players.
And telling a young a-hole that you dont spoil a great moment in club history by making it about you is one of those things.
Are talking about the great game plan? About how Barca again had the ball 70% of time but only in less dangerous zones than usual?
No, we have to deal with this drama queen and his me, me, me atittude.
maybe he should take up tennis or judo where he has no teammates and he wins and loses strictly on his merits.
> in the Barcelona locker room we were amazed, >all talking about it.
Really?
You lose 3-1, lose your composure, blame the refs (that's rich after Chelsea game last year) and THAT IS what you are talking about?
A million dollar body with a 5 penny brain is a common occurence in sports, Balotelli is just another one.
next year he will be someone elses headache and babysitting responsability.
2010-04-21
08:48:12
Leave balloteli alone he is not at forth
2010-04-23
00:22:04
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