Mario Balotelli signed with Sion, a club with which he will be contractually linked until 2024
SWITZERLAND — The Sion announced this Wednesday the signing of the Italian international striker Mario Balotelliwho has signed a contract with the Swiss club until 2024 and has become the most outstanding addition to Swiss football in the season that begins.
The signing was confirmed following the 32-year-old player completed a medical examination.
The Sion It finished the 2021-22 academic year in seventh position and currently ranks sixth.
“Balotelli It will be a great offensive contribution, since he has just finished a great season and arrives with great confidence. He is the kind of attacker we needed, with great determination,” the club’s sporting director, Barthélémy Constantin, commented upon confirmation of the acquisition.
The veteran battering ram, until now in the Adana Demirspor Turkish, had expressed at the end of last year his intention to change scenery, but his arrival in Swiss football, which had been speculated on since the end of last season, has cost months of negotiations.
The striker’s award-winning record includes a hat-trick with Inter Milan in 2010 when he was proclaimed champion of the Italian league, the Italian Cup and the Champions League under Portuguese coach José Mourinho, while on his tour of England he won a league title and a Cup with Manchester City.