Balotelli: Drug claims are incredible lies

Italy coach Cesare Prandelli and Damiano Tommasi, president of the national footballers' union (AIC), also came out in support of the forward.

Mafia informant Armando De Rosa told judicial investigators that Balotelli three years ago dealt illegal substances in Scampia, a notorious open-air drugs market on the northern edge of Naples.

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