Mario Balotelli ya bayyana goyon bayansa ga Ghana Black Stars a gasar FIFA World Cup ta 2026, yana mai ambaton asalinsa na Ghana a matsayin dalilin goyon bayan tawagar Afirka ta Yamma a duk lokacin gasar.

"Babu Italy, don haka ina goyon bayan Ghana," Balotelli ya fada wa Men in Blazers. "A bayyane nake, ni na Ghana ne kuma ina alfahari da Ghana."

Kasawar Italy wajen cancantar shiga gasar ta bar dan wasan mai shekara 35 ba tare da wata tawaga ta yau da kullum ta tallafawa ba — kuma bai yi jinkirin juyawa zuwa kasar haihuwarsa ba.

Hanyar Ghana ta matakin rukuni

Black Stars sun ci gaba zuwa zagaye na 32 a matsayin ɗaya daga cikin manyan ƙungiyoyin uku na uku daga rukuni wanda kuma ya haɗa da England, Croatia, da Panama. Ghana ta bude da nasara ɗan ƙarami 1-0 akan Panama, sannan ta yi canjaras 0-0 da England, kafin ta sha kashi 2-1 a hannun Croatia a wasan uku.

Aikin Ghana na gaba shi ne wasa na zagaye na 32 da Colombia, wadanda suka jagoranci Rukunin K a gaban Portugal, DR Congo, da Uzbekistan.

Asalin Ghana na Balotelli

An haifi Balotelli da sunan Mario Barwuah a Palermo, Sicily, ga iyayen da suka yi hijira daga Ghana. Yana da shekara 2, danginsa sun ƙaura zuwa Bagnolo Mella a lardin Brescia, Lombardy.

Yana da shekara 3, a shekara ta 1993, an sanya shi a ƙarƙashin kulawar dangin Balotelli bayan iyalinsa na asali ba su iya biyan kuɗin kulawarsa ta lafiya ba. Iyayensa masu kulawa — Francesco Balotelli da Silvia, ɗiyar Bayahudiya ta wanda ya tsira daga Holocaust — sun tarbiyyantar da shi a garin Concesio, Brescia, a arewacin Italy.

Da farko ya raba lokacinsa tsakanin iyalai biyu, kafin a ƙarshe dangin Balotelli su ɗauke shi cikakke kuma ya ɗauki sunansu. Tunda dangin ba su karɓe shi a ƙarƙashin doka ba, dole ne ya jira ranar haihuwarsa ta 18 don neman ɗan ƙasar Italy, wanda ya samu a ranar 13 ga Agusta 2008 a Concesio.

A Euro 2012, Balotelli ya keɓe wa mahaifiyarsa mai kulawa Silvia ƙwallaye da suka kai Italy zuwa karshen gasar — wata alama da ta nuna zurfinsa na motsin rai a cikin labarinsa.

Aiki a matakin koli

Balotelli ya fara buga wa ƙungiyar ƙasar Italy a manyan wasannin a shekarar 2010 kuma ya wakilci Azzurri a Euro 2012, FIFA Confederations Cup ta 2013, da FIFA World Cup ta 2014. Ya buga wa wasu daga cikin shahararrun kulob ɗin Turai, ciki har da Inter Milan, Manchester City, AC Milan, da Liverpool.

A yanzu yana da shekara 35, Balotelli yana buga wa kulob ɗin UAE Al-Ittifaq FC — kuma, a wannan Kofin Duniya aƙalla, zuciyarsa tana tare da Black Stars.