LITTLE KNOWN FACTS: Mario Balotelli Donates 50% Of His Salary To Children In Africa
Italian top footballer Mario Balotelli attracts a lot of controversy with his off-pitch antics that sometimes get more media prominence than his brilliant performance as a professional footballer, or even other commendable deeds that he is involved in.
One such is his generosity towards charity. Information has been out in the public for a while now that 25-year-old Balotelli gives almost half of his earnings to charity, especially Africa.
In 2013, UK's The Mirror quoted Balotelli's ex-girlfriend model Tabby Brown who he dated while playing in Manchester.
Balotelli's website, www.mariobalotelli.it, does not quote figures, but indicates that some charity funds go to Africa to benefit children.
In 2011, the Milan striker currently on loan from Liverpool donated the whole fee he earned as international football testimonial for La Gazzetta dello Sport newspaper, starring in a TV commercial and a print campaign, to completion of a school in South Sudan.
Mario’s friend John Kon Kelei, a former Sudanese child soldier whom he met in Milan, Italy in 2010, suggested the idea to him.
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The aim was to give the children an option to firearms and fighting, seeing as there was no secondary school in the village of Cuey Machar.
Images: Daily Mail/ Mariobalotelli.it
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