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Everything you need to know about Mario Balotelli

Limited privacy in a public life
Balotelli's life often finds its way into the headlines, as it did when he recently got engaged, but his official Twitter bio reads: "Don't believe anything you read about me unless is coming from here." The tattooed star has a quote from Genghis Khan on his chest.

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Liverpool signed Italy striker Mario Balotelli from AC Milan for 16 million pounds ($26.5 million) on Monday, taking a calculated gamble on a headline-grabbing player known as much for his controversies as his goals.

Nineteen months after ending a 2 1/2-year spell with Manchester City to play for his boyhood club, Balotelli will return to the English Premier League as a replacement for Luis Suarez - another of world football's talented but disruptive stars.
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