Mario Balotelli joins FC Sion for two years

Christian Constantin has achieved his goals! The president of FC Sion paid a madness – his last (?) – with the recruitment of Mario Balotelli.

‘Super Mario’ signed up just before the transfer market closed. He signed a two-year contract with FC Sion. At 32, Christian Constantin wants to believe that the Italian still has this magic and this thrust that allowed him to force the decision in his great days. But the president also knows that Lucien Favre is the last coach to have exploited the potential of ‘Super Mario’ during the 2016/2017 season which brought the two men together in Nice.

Mario Balotelli, however, remains on a full season in Turkey at Adana Dermispor. With 18 goals, he seems to have rediscovered in Turkey that striker’s instinct which had left him in Marseille, Brescia and Monza. International 36 times, Mario Balotelli had participated in the conquest of the Champions League Inter Jose Mourinho when he was not yet 20 years old. Champion of England with Manchester City in 2012, undoubtedly his best year crowned by his double against Germany in the semi-finals of the Euro, Mario Balotelli arrives in Sion with the aura of the very great player he has summer.

He will of course be the new ‘star’ of the Super League. We do not yet know the story will end well but we can already thank Christian Constantin for having managed to restore color to a championship which has been showing an undeniable regression for several months. With the commitment of Mario Balotelli and that announced on the same day of Farnçois Moubandje, Christian Constantin demonstrates that he has a financial surface without equal in the country and which does not really stick to his recent alarmist speeches on the future of his club.

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