Mario Balotelli, the controversial Italian forward, reminded England fans that he is as brilliant as he is unpredictable as he scored the winner in his team's 2-1 victory at Arena Amazonas.
The World Cup is the kind of stage made for Balotelli, who divided opinion wildly during his three years with Manchester City in the English Premier League before returning to Italy with AC Milan. And he didn't let this opportunity slip.
Watch Balotelli score Italy's second goal with his head
Balotelli revealed their engagement on his Instagram account on Monday
I’ll give Rooney credit for a perfect cross to Sturridge for the England goal but three World Cups now and he has still not found the back of the net, come on!
And that corner towards the end of the game? I saw a colemanball last year about Rooney that sums that up, ‘phenomical’...
In 1993, the authorities suggested he be placed into foster care. The Barwuah family gave up the three-year-old boy to an Italian foster family, the Balotellis.[7][9] His foster parents, Silvia (the daughter of Holocaust survivors) and Francesco Balotelli, who are Italian Jews,[10][11][12][13][14] lived in the town of Concesio, Brescia, in northern Italy.[15]
At first, he stayed at the Balotellis during the weekdays, and returned to his biological parents on weekends. But after a while he started to be indifferent towards his biological parents and adopted the surname of the Balotellis, and it was arranged for him to be permanently fostered by the Balotellis.[16]
In June 2012, he dedicated his goals that put Italy in the final of the Euro 2012 football championships to his foster mother Silvia, and rushed over to embrace her as she wept after the win.[7][17]