Jose Mourinho (L) and Mario Balotelli (R) during their time together at Inter Milan
Former Inter Milan forward, Mario Balotelli has denied Jose Mourinho's claim that the former declined a meeting with him to go watch Formula 1.
Mourinho in an interview with BT in 2022 sarcastically narrated that, while at Inter, he scheduled a meeting with Balotelli but the player snubbed him to watch 'Formula 1'.
Speaking on Muschi Selvaggio’s podcast, the ex-Italian footballer said Mourinho's claim was false.
“There was an interview where Mourinho says I didn’t go to a meeting with him because I went to the Grand Prix. It’s not true.”
Mourinho in his interview said: “I told Balotelli to be at my office by 2 pm for a meeting and when I called him he’d gone to watch Formula 1. He said, ‘meetings in your office I can have every day, but to see the Formula 1 is only once a year in Italy.’ A couple of days later I had to laugh.”
Balotelli went on to disclose that the Portuguese gaffer has a unique style of getting the best out of players by pocking them.
He said: “Mourinho brings out the best in you, he makes you angry and you react and put all your adrenaline out on the pitch.”
Mario Balotelli was a member of Jose Mourinho's treble-winning Inter Milan in 2010. Balotelli, who had a breakthrough season, won the Golden Boy award at the end of the campaign.
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