Inside Thomas and Rose Barwuah’s third-floor council flat above a row of shops in Bagnolo Mella, on the outskirts of Brescia in northern Italy, photographs of their family adorn the walls.

His mother and father, Thomas and Rose Barwuah, worked around the clock to care for their child, even baptising him early in case he died from complications.

Balotelli, 21, was one of four children born to Christian parents Thomas and Rose Barwuah, immigrants from Ghana. He suffered with life-threatening health issues, ...

He first came to Brescia with his biological parents, Thomas and Rose Barwuah, who moved to the Lombardy region after first settling in Palermo following their arrival from their native Ghana in ...

Her attempt seems to be working, as £120,000-a-week Balotelli has been seen vising the estate in his white Bentley GT, and taking his natural mother to the local shops or out for a drink in the ...

And while the ­Manchester City and Italy star drives to work in his £120,000 Bentley Continental GT, skint Rose ­Barwuah’s more modest mode of transport is the Number 11 bus.

The Manchester City striker picked up Rose Barwuah in his camouflage Bentley ­wearing an army-style outfit. He drove her from her rented £67,000 house to his £3million mansion in Alderley Edge ...

His birth mother (the former Inter Milan man was adopted by Italian couple Francesco and Silvia Balotelli), Rose Barwuah, earns, by comparison, a staggeringly miserly £6 per hour for cleaning ...

A 24-year-old drives into a council estate in south Manchester and picks up his mother to take her out for lunch. It’s a rather unremarkable event in normal circumstances, except the car is a ...

While Super Mario is rumoured have looked at properties worth £4.75m while house hunting for his next North West abode, Rose lives in a humble terraced house and gets by on minimum wage, working ...

Rose Barwuah is scraping a living doing evening shifts at the offices of a car lease company for close to the 6 pound-an-hour minimum wage. While the Man City star drives to work in his 120,000-pound ...

So settled is Rose that when her superstar son moved from Manchester City to AC Milan in January 2013, she didn’t follow him. Rose remained in her humble house, with Balotelli’s sister Angel, 15.