FORMER INTER MIDFIELDER Kerlon has hailed Mario Balotelli as a “very nice guy”, but revealed that the striker had a bizarre habit of urinating on his team-mates’ boots.
Kerlon signed for Inter in 2008 but failed to make a single league appearance for the club, instead being loaned to Chievo, Ajax, Parana and Nacional-NS during his time in Milan.
But the 27-year-old remembers his time with Balotelli very well, admitting that the Italy international had a very strange way of conducting himself in the dressing room.
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“Balotelli is a very nice guy and an extraordinary person, but he did some unbelievable things off the pitch,” Kerlon told ESPN Brazil .
“He had a habit of arriving at training before anyone else and peeing on all the players’ boots… it was very funny.
“I’ve never seen a kid at 18-years-old do something like it and not feel sorry for any of it, even to Julio Cesar and Maicon.
Kerlon, who was a highly rated youngster at Cruzeiro before he moved to the Italian club, reflected on his time at Inter and said he never tried his famous ‘seal dribble’ — running past opponents while balancing the ball on his head — in training because of the height and power of defenders such as Marco Materazzi, Lucio and Walter Samuel.
“I did a pre-season with Jose Mourinho at Inter, but I never tried the dribble,” Kerlon said.
“The guys were very tall and strong, it’s complicated.
'Balotelli is very nice, but he used to pee on our boots'
FORMER INTER MIDFIELDER Kerlon has hailed Mario Balotelli as a “very nice guy”, but revealed that the striker had a bizarre habit of urinating on his team-mates’ boots.
Kerlon signed for Inter in 2008 but failed to make a single league appearance for the club, instead being loaned to Chievo, Ajax, Parana and Nacional-NS during his time in Milan.
But the 27-year-old remembers his time with Balotelli very well, admitting that the Italy international had a very strange way of conducting himself in the dressing room.
“Balotelli is a very nice guy and an extraordinary person, but he did some unbelievable things off the pitch,” Kerlon told ESPN Brazil .
“He had a habit of arriving at training before anyone else and peeing on all the players’ boots… it was very funny.
Kerlon, who was a highly rated youngster at Cruzeiro before he moved to the Italian club, reflected on his time at Inter and said he never tried his famous ‘seal dribble’ — running past opponents while balancing the ball on his head — in training because of the height and power of defenders such as Marco Materazzi, Lucio and Walter Samuel.
“I did a pre-season with Jose Mourinho at Inter, but I never tried the dribble,” Kerlon said.
“The guys were very tall and strong, it’s complicated.
“If Materazzi hit me, I would fly away.”
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