Balotelli's mum moves to Manchester to rekindle relationship
Posted On Monday, 26th March 2012
Rose Barwuah is mother of Manchester City star Mario Balotelli
Mario Balotelli’s mum has moved to one of Britain’s toughest council estates as she rekindles her relationship with the son she gave away as a child.
While the £120,000-a-week footballer lives in a mansion and a plush hotel, Rose Barwuah rents a £550-a-month terraced house in part of Manchester made famous by TV’s Shameless.
Manchester City striker Mario, 21, has visited her in Wythenshawe — driving his white Bentley GT, popping to shops and even standing his round in a pub.
A neighbour said: “Rose is a religious woman who goes to church every Sunday. All she has ever wanted was to rebuild their relationship and now it looks like her prayers have been answered.”
They were living in a cramped flat in Brescia, Italy, and he was recovering from operations on his intestines.
They said the richer Balotelli family who took him in then turned him against them.
The player dubbed Super Mario by fans went on to star for Inter Milan before being bought by City for £23million.
He reacted angrily when Rose and Thomas first said they want to be reunited with him, claiming they were just after his money.
But Rose, who barely speaks English, showed her determination for a reconciliation by moving with her 13-year-old daughter Angel.
Her other son, 18-year-old Enoch, is a promising footballer in England after trials with Stoke and Sunderland while daughter Abigail, 23, runs a fashion store near Milan.
Abigail told The Sun: “My mum will be closer to Mario and Enoch but I will stay here.”
And Giuseppe Toninelli, owner of the metal works where Thomas has worked for 15 years, said: “He has left. He was going to Ghana before joining the family in Manchester.
“I think they are all trying to patch up their differences.”
A neighbour in Wythenshawe said: “Rose is doing this herself to show it is not about money.
“This is the house she can afford. All she wants to do is to get to know her son.
“Rose has settled in here. She works at Wythenshawe Market, setting off before 6am to put out the stalls for traders.
“Mario has started coming round more often. He sometimes strolls to the shop for her.
“He has been friendly too and signed some kits. He has been to the local pub, The Tudor, and even put money behind the bar. It is lovely that he and Rose are close again.”
Mario — who lives in posh Alderley Edge, Cheshire, and the city centre Hilton Hotel — played last night in City’s 1-1 draw at Stoke.
Source: the sun
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Hope to hear more improvement in their relationship ties.
Sad and speechless, I pray God that this relationship be established with the love and affection it deserves from God, I Thank God.
hmmm i dont blame both mother and son God knows what he is doing…they will sure be one cos blood is ticker than water
The article and your comments left me nothing but tears. The Lord the heart of love of this woman for her son. LORD you who shows mercy and patched Joseph,his brothers and father together in the land of Egypt, visit Rose and
her family.
Though it sounds gracious that they are finally united with each other, I believe that woman is a wicked, shameless and stubborn opportunist. Who will take serious any woman who dumps her own blood gushed son to a forster home for so many years without even passing by to check him out, not even once, only to start playing all these dirty tricks to “reconcile” after someone else took care of him and he became rich. If this was a true case of remorse it should have started with some expression of credit and gratitude to the real parents who brought Bal up. Why wasn’t she around when as a baby, Baloteli needed her most? I agree with Balo that she is just after his money. Nobody can convince me that this woman would have chased up this way if Bal were poor.
@Notoro:
Wait till its ur turn….”etua wo y)nko a, etua dua…”!
you make no sense
Bal should let it go. Our mothers are always our mothers no matter what happened afterall she brought you to this world. May be she made a mistake by disowning you because she was financially crippled by then and that action turned up to be a blessing to you. So, Bal please just accept her. The last thing we should do is to let our mothers “sweat” if we can help.
This is the best article I have read on GSN this year, its emotional and gripping….
Let’s hope Enoch plays for Ghana.
It’s lesson to all of our Ghanaian s.Money is not everything,people put all their trust in paper money and turn their back on money,but what every step one take there is price to pay in future.
P.K.
It’s lesson to all of our Ghanian’s.Money is not everything,people put all their trust in paper money and turn their back on Love,but what ever step one take there is price to pay in future.
JESUS SAVES
Notoro don’t take one side of the story nd judge.. Get ya ass a damn fucking life.
She’s still a proud……………or super mario wanna b da nxt MJ………..he’s still blacq……
SO WAS MJ. BLACK IS BEAUTIFUL…BLACK IS ORIGINAL … BLACK IS THE REPOSITORY OF HUMANITY
…THE LAND OF THE LIVING!!!!
In Nigeria, if you stall as long as he has, all your uncles and aunties and cousins, [and most painful]all your kinsmen will all appeal to you till you are sooooo sufficiently embarrassed, and begin to wonder if you are so wicked that you cannot forgive the person who gave you life!?
someone who, if she had not adopted you out, you would have stayed with her, and most likely died of complications…
YOU WILL HAVE TO FORGIVE HER; THEN WHEN YOU RECONCILE, YOU CAN THEN QUIETLY ASK HER WHY SHE DID NOT VISIT…AND IF THE ANSWER SHE GIVES YOU IS FAILY REASONABLE, YOU BEGIN TO BUILD YOUR LIVES AS IF NOTHING HAPPENED!
THAT IS HOW WE DO IT IN NIGERIA [IGBO TRIBE]
WE HAVE A NATIVE PROVERB THAT YOU DO NOT THROW AWAY YOUR BIRTH MOTHER UNLESS YOU ARE A BEAST…AND WHATEVER SHE MAY HAVE DONE, IF SHE PERISHES, THE ONUS IS ON YOU TO BURY HER.
IF YOU DO NOT, THEN YOU ARE NOT A TRUE AFRICAN SON, AND THE DISGRACE WILL BE ON YOUR HEAD.
IN THE END I THINK THE MESSAGE, HARD AS IT MAY BE, IS TO FORGIVE AND REBUILD.
THAT’S WHAT MAKES US UNIUE…THAT IS WHAT MAKES US THE BEST.
THANK YOU TO THE ITALIAN FAMILY FOR ALL THEIR POSITIVE EFFORTS, AND WE FORGIVE THEM FOR ALL THEIR NEGATIVE ALLEGED EFFORTS.