Giorgio Chiellini has admitted he once wanted to 'slap' Mario Balotelli when they were away together on international duty. The pair have featured together for Italy at three major tournaments in the past, including Euro 2012 and the 2014 World Cup.
But football's notorious mischief-maker Balotelli did not make a lasting impression on Chiellini, particularly at a tournament in the intervening years. “Balotelli is a negative person with no respect for the team," Chiellini wrote in an upcoming autobiography, via . "In 2013, in the Confederations Cup against Brazil, he didn't help us at all.
He deserved a slap. "Someone thinks he is among the top five players in the world, I never even thought that he could be in the top ten or twenty." Bre
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