Mario Balotelli said his greatest teammates were all in Italy: Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Luis Figo and Andrea Pirlo.
The Liverpool forward sat down with Talksport.com and was asked the three best players he ever worked with as team-mates.
Mario Balotelli said his greatest teammates were all in Italy: Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Luis Figo and Andrea Pirlo.
The Liverpool forward sat down with Talksport.com and was asked the three best players he ever worked with as team-mates.
“Ibrahimovic, Figo, Pirlo,” was his response.
Balotelli played alongside Ibra at Inter, was breaking into the first team with Figo’s career was coming to an end and Pirlo is his Italy assist man.
“I was 17 or 18 when I played with Figo at Inter, but he was still brilliant. And Pirlo is amazing – the incredible thing is that he is still getting better now. It’s an easy thing to say that we just want to keep improving as footballers, but it is not an easy thing to do.”
Balotelli also later pointed to his current Liverpool team-mate Steven Gerrard.
“Gerrard too, he is an amazing player. I had really not seen much of him before this season, apart from for England, but wow.
“I think of him as being at the same level as Pirlo. Vision, technique, but he is powerful as well. Stevie can do anything. It’s going to be very difficult for the team to find another player like him in the future.”