Di Stefano presents a book about his life in 2010. (Getty)

Real Madrid honorary president Alfredo Di Stefano, who turns 87 in July, is set to marry a 36-year-old woman who helped him prepare a book about his life that was released in 2010. Di Stefano, who has battled about as many health problems as you would expect of a man well into his 80s, says his "sense of humor" won her over.

From Reuters:

Considered one of the greatest players of all time, Argentina-born Di Stefano said he was getting married to the 36-year-old Gina Gonzalez in the next few weeks "because I want to and I have been a widower for eight years".

"Each madman to their own," he was quoted as saying in Saturday's edition of El Mundo newspaper.

"I am in love and I am marrying Gina," he added. "I am 86 but I have a young heart."

Di Stefano has been a widower for eight years. He says his children don't approve of impending nuptials, but he doesn't care. "I am interested in my life and nothing else. And not making a lot of trouble," he says. And at nearly 87 years old, he's earned the right to feel that way.

As a player, The Blond Arrow won five consecutive European Cups with Real Madrid between 1956 and 1960. As a manager, he led Boca Juniors and Valencia to domestic league titles. On top of all that, he apparently also has one wicked sense of humor.

Esiliiga side FC Puuma Tallinn have lost their last seven matches, and are on course for a drop down to the third tier of the Estonian league system.

Puuma's Russian striker Yaroslav Dmitriev did nothing to help the cause by earning a red card in their recent game with Rakvere Tarvas. When an opponent made some reasonably legitimate contact while challenging for the ball, Dmitriev took exception to the invasion of his personal space and swung a powerful kick into his stomach.

Perhaps the man in yellow had irritated him earlier in the match, or perhaps he had been waiting for an opportunity to show off a sweet move he learned from the Mortal Kombat movie, which probably just came out in Estonia a few weeks ago. Either way, just to make his violent intent crystal clear for the referee, Dmitriev then kicked the ball at the man he felled.

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Pep Guardiola being uncomfortable. (Ole)

Since watching his next club, Bayern Munich, win all the time gets boring after a while, Pep Guardiola is in Argentina giving a series of speeches. Over the corse of this chatter, Guardiola has declared that Lionel Messi is also the best at defending. And that prior to taking charge of Barcelona B in 2007, he had never seen the then 20-year-old reigning World Young Player of the Year play.

From Football Espana:

“Messi is the best defender out there. When trying to take the ball off you, he will. I’m sure if you put him at left-back he would be the same,” commented Guardiola this week.

“My influence? If he does what he does in the area, what do I have to do with that?

“When I first came across him, I had never seen him play, but Tito [Vilanova] had already told me wonders.”

So there you have it. Messi can do it all. And in addition to scoring and defending better than anyone else, he is also the best at sitting on the bench when he's hurt, the absolute greatest giggler and he recently

Amidst reports that Jose Mourinho has already agreed to return to Chelsea this summer, criticism of his time at Real Madrid has increased. His detractors say he hasn't accomplished enough in Madrid to label the last three years as successful as his previous stops and that has upset the almighty Special One.

Under Mourinho, Real Madrid won La Liga last season — setting a new points record (at an even 100) in the process — and the Copa del Rey in his first season. They've reached the Champions League semifinal in all three seasons and are once again in the Copa del Rey final this year. Former DT contributor Richard Whittall did an excellent job of explaining just how impressive all of that is on Counter Attack. But to really drive home just how great he is, Mourinho brought a Rafa Benitez-like cheat sheet to his Friday press conference to ensure he could do his best to illustrate how his predecessors at Real Madrid were inferior to him. He also started off with a massive humble brag.

From the Guardian:

"It is my fault: I have won so, so, so much that it is hard to live up to those expectations. But the points record in the league is mine and no one can take that away. Madrid had gone 20 years without a Copa del Rey success and we won that, so maybe it's not so easy. No one can take that away. We also reached three semi-finals. That does not satisfy me and I am not happy to 'nearly' do it, but it is not easy either," he added, unfolding a piece of paper and reading a list of former Madrid managers.

"John Toshack, Di Stéfano, Antic, Beenhakker, Floro, Arsenio, Capello, Heynckes, Hiddink, Del Bosque, Queiroz, Camacho, García Remón, López Caro, Vanderlei Luxemburgo, Capello again, Ramos, Schuster, Pellegrini ..." he read. "Eighteen coaches in 21 years, five semi-finals. Meanwhile, that rubbish Mourinho [got to] three in three years. Three in three after five in 21 years? That shows that it is not easy. I repeat: I don't want to 'nearly' get there, nearly is nothing to me. But that league record is mine."

Mourinho went on to say, "I am proud to have been the coach that broke Barcelona's hegemony," who he described as "probably the best team in the world in the last 20-30 years." He then offered his paper to the congregated journalists, as if touching it would make them turn to dust.

If only he knew the danger... (Getty)

Football may be the world's favorite sport — and something that people will use their spare time to learn more about on superbly written Yahoo! blogs — but that doesn't mean the professional players who entertain us actually have to have any interest in what they're doing.

As a Premier League footballer for the past seven seasons, many would say Tottenham defender Benoît Assou-Ekotto has one of the best jobs in the world, but the Cameroon international is happy to admit that he doesn't actually like the game. When he turns up at White Hart Lane on a Saturday, he often doesn't know anything about the opposition, nor the league standing of his club. In a Guardian interview in 2010, he even went as far as saying he only "plays for the money," not the enjoyment of the game.

In a new Guardian interview published on Friday, Assou-Ekotto reiterates his lack on interest in the beautiful game and even admits an astonishing lack of knowledge concerning one of the biggest recent incidents in

Fenerbahce's Gokhan Gonul suffered a scary injury in the second leg of his side's Europa League semifinal against Benfica. With the aggregate score at 2-2 and Fenerbahce leading on their away goal in the 57th minute, Benfica's Nicolas Gaitan tried to reign in a high cross, but ended up kicking Gonul in the face instead.

Gonul was unconscious and bleeding from the mouth, but Gaitan wasn't booked for the high boot. Gonul was taken to the hospital and, according to the Daily Mail, he needed stitches on his lip and "lost some teeth."

Benfica went on to score a winner in the 65th minute, sending them to the Europa League final, where they will play Chelsea. Lucky for Fernando Torres, he already wears a face mask.

Though it proved unnecessary as Chelsea beat Basel 3-1 in the second leg of their Europa League semifinal to advance with a 5-2 aggregate score, David Luiz scored yet another brilliant goal with enviable ease. In the 59th minute at Stamford Bridge, Frank Lampard laid the ball off for Luiz well outside the box and the Brazilian curled a shot that dipped down from the top corner in a way that probably made David Beckham jealous.

All three of Chelsea's goals came within nine minutes of each other after Basel took a 1-0 lead in the first half. Fernando Torres scored Chelsea's first goal in the 50th minute, giving him five in eight Europa League appearances this season (compared to seven goals in 32 Premier League appearances, including none in his last nine).

Chelsea will now play Benfica in the final and until then, the masked man who has replaced Torres has flown off to his native planet...

(Real Madrid)

During Real Madrid's first training session since coming up a goal short against Borussia Dortmund and hearing Jose Mourinho's strongest hint yet that he'll be leaving the club at the end of the season, Sergio Ramos gave his manager a hug. Perhaps this is just Mourinho's way of lifting morale, but the embrace has drawn attention as it brings back memories of Mourinho's tearful hug with Marco Materazzi just before he left Inter for Madrid in 2010. So let's see just how much unfounded information we can project onto this image.

-They were saying goodbye. Even though they have six more matches together this season and immediately walked down the tunnel next to each other while maintaining an awkward silence.
-Realizing that they don't have much more time together, they reconciled their differences and decided that all was forgiven. Except for their argument about whether Mourinho actually created the universe in six days.
-Sergio Ramos was trying to distract and hold Mourinho so Iker