Mario Balotelli involved in 5am car crash on way home from New Year’s celebrations in nightclub as striker’s car smashes into gate of bakery
- Mario Balotelli was involved in a car crash in Brescia at 5am on Wednesday
- Balotelli was making his way home from night out when his car hit a gate
- The striker was not driving at the time of the incident and suffered no injuries
- The accident happened just a few hundred metres away from Balotelli’s home
Controversial striker Mario Balotelli was involved in a car crash at 5am while returning home from New Year’s celebrations at a nightclub in the Italian city of Brescia.
According to Corriere della Sera, Balotelli’s new Fiat 500 Abarth ended up smashing into a gate of a bakery not far from his home after his friend, who was driving, made a wrong manoeuvre and clipped the kerb.
Balotelli, 29, and his friend both emerged from the accident unscathed but the car suffered severe damage to its front axle.
Mario Balotelli’s car crashed into the gate of a bakery near his home at 5am on Wednesday
The Brescia striker was not behind the wheel at the time of the crash and suffered no injuries
The former Manchester City and Liverpool striker, who now plays for his hometown club of Brescia, was returning home from celebrating the start of the New Year with friends in a city nightclub at the time of the crash.
Balotelli left the car on the street and walked the few hundred yards back to his home in Mompiano.
A tow truck later came to remove the car, which is expected to be written off.
Balotelli has often been the centre of controversy during his career, most notably in October 2011 when emergency services were called to his £3million Cheshire home after he caused a fire by letting off fireworks in his bathroom.
The Italian was then a City player, and he went on to score two goals in a 6-1 win over arch-rivals Manchester United the following day, and celebrated by lifting his shirt to reveal the written message: ‘Why always me?’
Balotelli has four goals for boyhood club Brescia but it has been another turbulent season
While at City he was also pictured scrapping with team-mates on the training field, as well as his own manager, Roberto Mancini. He has fallen out with a string of players and managers, including Jose Mourinho at Inter Milan.
This season has also been turbulent, despite returning to the club he supported as a boy.
Balotelli suffered racial abuse during a match against Hellas Verona. He then kicked the ball into the crowd and threatened to walk off the pitch in protest before being convinced to play on.
Just weeks later Brescia’s notorious president Massimo Cellino, the former Leeds United owner, suggested that Balotelli could be sold in January.
Balotelli, who has scored four times in 12 games for his boyhood club this season, has attracted interest from several clubs in Turkey.
Balotelli reveals his ‘why always me?’ message after scoring against Man United in 2011, the day after emergency services were called to his house after he let off fireworks in a bathroom
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