Mario Balotelli has named his football idol and opted not to choose Cristiano Ronaldo or Lionel Messi for his selection. Balotelli is well known to Premier League football fans thanks to his time at Manchester City and also Liverpool.

The two great figures of modern soccer, Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo, have dominated all aspects of the sport since their debut and continue to make history where they still

A world-class player himself, the Liverpool-born midfielder was also always full of praise for his peers and once claimed an England star was as good as Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo – he tipped the forward to be the Three Lions’ main man ahead of the 2010 World Cup and ‘shoot England to glory’.