Mario Balotelli admits he did not deal with lockdown very well, mainly because he can’t cook. ‘I was basically eating cardboard for the first three days.’
Brescia and other Serie A sides will resume group training from May 18, with a plan to restart fixtures from June 13 after the coronavirus pandemic eased in Italy.
“If you pass me the ball now, I am not able to get it under control with a first touch. It’s been two months since I touched the ball,” SuperMario told former teammate Alessandro Matri during an Instagram Live chat.
“I was going crazy the last couple of weeks, because I was totally alone. My daughter is in Naples, my son is in Zurich, my mother is of a certain age and needs to be protected, my brothers are in quarantine with their children, so I was left by myself. It was tough.
“It’s impossible to train properly if you don’t have a running machine, so even though it wasn’t really allowed, I went to the park near me to do a little running.”
The worst aspect of the lockdown turned out to be Balotelli’s own inability to cook.
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“I was basically eating cardboard and trying to bite chunks out of the wall for the first three days, as I can’t cook anything. Fortunately, I then managed to get food delivered.”