black or white, jewish or not, bad boy or good boy, he is a great soccer player, and that is all what counts on the soccer field. PERIOD! GOOD LUCK BUDDY, AND SCORE THE WINNING GOAL!

I wish him a lot of hatzlacha...and yes it's true....If the Italians don't want him, let him play for his people....Israel.

like Mahatma Gandhi is a norwegian.

Ha he landed in Israel, he would have be kicked out of the country. He's Italian and proud of it.

His foster mother is Jewish. Mario Balotelli has never been adopted by the Balotelli family. Legally he uses both his biological parents last name (Barwuah) and the last name of his foster family (Balotelli). Mario has never converted to Judaism. His biological parents are Christians from Ghana. Mario is currently studying Buddhism. All that said, I am hard pressed to understand exactly how Mario Barwuah Balotelli is either one of ours or Jewish. However, I firmly respect Mario for his skill as a sportman and for his deep respect and love towards his foster family.

That's why I am proud to be Jewish.

No, he's not Jewish, does not identify himself as such and has no knowledge of the faith, his "mother"s blood is not his, he is adopted, he is a Ghanian man of Christian origin living in Italy, not Italian and not an Italian Jew.

I don't know how you can say this, your are a collection of prejudices and pirlate. G-d bless you

Would Ynet have printed this article?

Mario Balotelli is NOT a Jew. He is Christian but the hair on top of his head is Jewish. As I said many time all Christians were born Jewish but Baptism convert them to Christians. Cabish

Israel took in over 50,000 Africans that are not Jewish, many of whom are indeed Muslim, to save them from death from their own people and yo save them from Egyptian solders using them as target practice! Israel has also save 100's of thousands of Ethiopian Jews who just so happen to have black skin. We are not a large or wealthy nation that can continue to protect the world from your evil. Protects as many as she can.

is matters not what color ur or my skin is... it only matters that our hearts are good and we are family. Good luck in all that you do and bless you. Am Israel Chai

to Jews and Israel! As far as this Jew is concerned he has more courage than many of our own and he IS a member of MY Jewish family.

You don't know what you're talking about. Israel deports illegal alliens because of their illegal status, not because of their race. On the other hand if you are such a nice guy why are you calling them "negro". You live in the dark shadows of the Vatican and that makes you a hypocrite.

Mario Balotelli is a mensch or a fine human being ,a kind and good man and he is probably the finest footballer alive today,one hell of a player. If there is a better footballer around these days I am unaware of him.

how does that make you proud 2 b a Jew??

that is neither one of them is Jewish. so what is this article doing here?

You can now take over Mario Balotelli because he was a disgrace for the Italian team. Spain 4 Italy 0.

They owe him quite a lot. He is PROUD of his Jewish heritiage via his mother, the only mother he has ever known. When his birth family tried to get in touch with him (after he was famous already) he told them to buzz off, that they were gold-diggers.

The entire Italy team was rubbish and and outclassed. Mario won the Premier League in England and you have no place calling him rubbish, when you are probably a pimply faced crack addict with Hepatitis D. Love to see Mario strike a ball in your face.

There seems to be a prevalence among Jewish media sites to associate anyone with remote Jewish ties as one on their own. Maybe it's insecurity on the part of Israelis, or a psychological need for International recognition. Either way they've failed, only a fool would want to be associated with the Israeli theocracy, and the stigma of its illegal occupation, colonialism and ethnic cleansing.

Alan, I am sorry but your explanation shows only that your general skill of understanding what you read is still poor. Try again! Israel may be insecure, but certainly does not feel a need for int'l recognition, neither is a theocracy (it's easy to check...) nor practices ethnic cleansing. You listen to propaganda and you believe it. Ignorance never helped progress.

Theocracy? Referring to Israel as a theocracy is one of the hallmarks of somebody who knows nothing about the country. The majority of Israelis aren't even religious...but, of course, if you didn't have your head up your derriere, you would have known that.

This article is sheer opportunism and manipulation of facts on the part of the journalist.