'Mario Balotelli regrets choosing Italy over Ghana'- his Biological dad who abandoned him as a child says

Mario with the Balotellis


AC Milan of Italy striker Mario Balotelli regrets
choosing to represent the Azurri of Italy over the
Black Star of Ghana according to his biological
father, Thomas Barwuah. Thomas Barwuah is
the man who gave Balotelli up for adoption
while he was a child, before he was adopted by
his now Italian parents, who the Italian striker
refers to as his 'real parents'.
The Ghanaian FA tried to convince him to
represent the West African country back in 2011,
but he opted to represent Italy instead, a
decision the father says he striker regrets due to
the constant racist abuse he endures in Italy.
Himself [Balotelli] has started realising he made
a big mistake playing for the Italian national
team and he has told friends about it,” Barwuah
told GazzettaGhana.
“He is not being treated well, true they
don’t show him the love he deserves for
his great talent and skill. I think that all
he gets is abuse, especially from the
media here and that is because he is
black”.
“They don’t like him and it started from
the beginning, they didn’t want to see a
black boy like himself taking glory of the
Italian national team.”
His biological dad was a Ghanaian immigrant
who lived in Italy with wife Rose. They had
Mario in Sicily, only to give him up for adoption
at the age of three in 1993 to the Balotellis, a
family of Italian Jews, for unexplained health
reasons.