Chelsea manager, Jose Mourinho has revealed Mario Balotelli once stood him up to go watch Formula 1 instead.
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The Chelsea boss called the Italian in for a meeting during their time together at Serie A side Inter Milan. However, Mourinho was left high and dry as Balotelli failed to show because the striker was at the F1 qualifying in Monza.
"We had funny problems, I told him to be at 2pm in my office for a meeting and when I called him he'd gone to the Formula 1 qualification on the Saturday for the race on Sunday," Mourinho told BT Sport
"He (Balotelli) replied, 'meetings in your office I can have every day, but to see the Formula 1 is only once a year in Italy', A couple of days later I had to laugh."
Mourinho reckons the Liverpool forward could pen a bestseller book one day and insists Mario is a good kid that just needs the right support and guidance.
"He's a nice kid, in my time, needed support, needed the older players to support him because it's not good when that educational relationship is just between the manager and the player," he added.
"I always think that it's important that the people surrounding help the manager in that process."
Balotelli is renowned for his off-field antics, which include letting off fireworks inside his house while at Manchester City.
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