Former Inter Milan striker Samuel Eto'o says Mario Balotelli could've been a worldbeater.

Eto'o was still with Inter as Balotelli, now with Brescia, was breaking through as a teenager.

He told Gazzetta dello Sport: "Mario loves me like a little brother, but he never showed even 10% of his qualities.

"The Mario I saw in training when he wanted to, I never saw the same in a game.

"Too bad, in some moments he knew how to mark the hearts of those who watched him, but he could have marked them every day for twenty years..."