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Mario Balotelli offers aghast goals but he is full of bombast. His dad has been quoted saying Balotelli told his friends that, he regrets choosing Italy over Ghana but if Balotelli's proclamation is true then it must be a worthless reflection for any traditional football loving Ghanaian.
 
The story of regret is mesmerizing when it comes from people who abused their chance. Such stories become poignant when people who had easy life and all football opportunities acted with self – aggrandizement to blow it

Perhaps, the verbatim of Balotelli’s dad amounts to an attempt to save face for his boy but sometimes, in the rush to exonerate oneself from his calamity and blame, the get-ups make things far far worse.

Football does not discriminate, it is why Balotelli’s prominence offered him the chance in Italy. But he has lost his lustre. The celebrated black at EURO 2012 with Italy has stumbled from one horrible misstep to another since, his off the pitch attitude took over his career.

The seemingly fall of Balotelli is his murky lifestyle instead of being black. No black immigrant has ever gotten the privilege he is enjoyed in Italy. He was such a bewitching elegant player at Man City but has lost his way so spectacularly.

Balotelli could have been a far bigger fish for Ghana to fry. He is a player who distracts his team and try to make the headlines away from the pitch. We have heard countless Blizzard of Balotelli’s attitude in every side he plays in. Therefore, the chances of Balotelli making it in the Black Stars’ team as humbler than Kelvin Prince Boateng, still could fall in the category marked unlikely.

Any one who sees Balotelli coping as a humble member of the Black Stars team from the years he joined the Italian National Team, probably has a discourse with his world view. That fellow may have a narrow view because Balotelli had problems with clubs with professionalism high above the Black Stars of Ghana but his attitude could not allow him to coalesce with team – mates, managers and the fans.

To those with long memories of Balotelli’s problematic attitude at Inter Milan, Manchester City, Liverpool and AC Milan, they would take his personal regret as a crass, classless message. If there are no better ways of saving face than this, then things must be bad for Balotelli.

Balotelli turned his arty football skill into a nightmare. He cannot reflect he masterminded a series of obscene decisions that would be a death knell of his international career.

His errant moves at two English clubs – Man City and Liverpool - were at times so horrifically misguided that anyone who heard his fights with colleagues and staying up late on the eve of a Manchester derby to play fireworks with friends and set his house on fire; it made everyone who loves football feel sick.

Sentimental souls’ heart often rule their heads. The British Sun newspaper reported that, his former coach at AC Milan Sinisa Mihajlovic made a case that Balotelli has a mental problem hence, stopping him being a top footballer.

“I think that Balotelli’s physical condition is good, but psychologically he’s not quite there yet”

“He needs to improve mentally, but that has always been his problem,” he said.

Mario Balotelli must just not try to cover himself from a mismanaged and misfiring career. He should have known the kind of attitude he posed, wasn’t the kind of behavior that augured well for the future. He is living in disillusionment but who fox him to once tell the world he feels more Italian than Ghanaian?

Perhaps, Balotelli saw African football as busted flush. He saw nothing good from the Dark Continent – Africa. It’s like throwing paint at the wall and it made him feel callow and unsure of our world. He then seemed to forget that football is something more than your adopted country.

Anyways, Italy offered him everything a child could get from his rich parent(s) in a candy shop. Importantly, Balotelli rising to play for Italy as the first black footballer in contemporary Europe proves yet again that, it is the attitude of him that is his biggest obstacle to reach a career pinnacle.

We as Ghanaians love Balotelli but we could fret more about his attitude than the Italians. Our culture would not tolerate or offer space for Balotelli’s woeful escapades. He can ask his former colleague – Sulley Muntari and his present one – KP Boateng.

Balotelli must be grateful to the Italians because we could wreck his international career than he ever thought. We are intolerable to western attitude at our camp. He should stop excoriating the Italians for his failings because his regret is not palpable.

How can one ever regret playing for Italy after dismantling Germany with two personal great goals at Euro 2012 semi – final and only to tell us four years after that, he regrets such inedible achievement? What does that kind of failure do to a man; to get to the top of your profession, to lead your adopted country to EURO 2012 final and only to see the ground fall away from beneath your feet?

I don’t know if someone could tell Balotelli the truth, like all petty disorderliness players, he loved and enjoyed his off the pitch attitude and his swollen – headedness corrupted his career.

Sorry Dad, Mario Balotelli may have regretted playing for Italy but Ghana Black Stars also could not condone nor connive with such disquiet character.