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Mario Balotelli sets off firework in dressing room of current club after infamous Man City incident

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Published 17:57 6 Mar 2024 GMT

Mario Balotelli sets off firework in dressing room of current club after infamous Man City incident

Balotelli, who plays for Turkish side Adana Demirspor, was up to his old tricks on Wednesday.

Jack Kenmare

Jack Kenmare

Mario Balotelli, the man with a history when it comes to pyrotechnics, has been filmed throwing a firework across the Adana Demirspor dressing room.

The 33-year-old forward, who re-joined the Turkish side last summer after his contract at Swiss club Sion was terminated, is making a real impression when given first-team minutes.

So far this season, the former Manchester City striker has scored five goals in nine games for Adana Demirspor, including a brace on his second debut against Alanyaspor.

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It has been an eventful second spell at the Super Lig club, and on Wednesday afternoon, he continued to create memories with a, let's just say, unorthodox firework display.

As you can see from the footage below, Balotelli can be seen lighting a small cracker before throwing it across the dressing room. It certainly gave one of his teammates the fright of his life.

This isn't the first time Balotelli has made headlines by setting off a firework. Speaking to SPORTbible in 2019, former City teammate Micah Richards recalled another incident involving pyro.

"He [Balotelli] actually came to my house a couple of weeks before the fireworks incident and he set some off again in my house. I was like: 'You know you can't do this? What's going through your mind?'

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"He just thinks everything is funny. That's why I like him so much. He doesn't take life too seriously."

As mentioned by Richards, two weeks before he set off a fireworks in the former defender's house, Balotelli's house caught on fire when crackers exploded in the bathroom.

It happened on the eve of their biggest win at Old Trafford in 56 years, with Balotelli scoring twice in a 6-1 win.

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The Italian striker would later play down his involvement. "The newspapers for the story wrong about me and the fire at my house. I didn't set any fireworks off, it was a friend of mine," he said.

"I didn't know anything about it until I heard shouting coming from the bathroom. Luckily, nobody was injured and my friend apologised for the damage to my house.

"It was a really stupid thing for him to do. Someone could have been really hurt and I was really, really angry with him about it."

Balotelli was billed £400,000 by his landlord to cover repairs.

Featured Image Credit: X/@DeportesReports

Topics: Mario Balotelli, Manchester City, Super Lig, Micah Richards

Jack Kenmare
Jack Kenmare

Jack is a Senior Journalist who enjoys a long read. He has an encyclopedic knowledge of Football Manager wonderkids from 2005 to the present day, and has interviewed a handful of FM's finest, including Freddy Adu, Supat Rungratsamee and Mika Aaritalo.

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