• Are you ready for this? The folks at Marca amusingly invented an ‘award’ for Kaka so that he’d come to their editorial offices and give em a scoop! You know they’d been waiting AGES for this day to arrive. “I will try to score as many goals as I can against Milan. But I will not celebrate them,” he said. “It’s the first time I will play against a former team. For me it is a historic match, but I really want to score, because I am a professional. I want to win because we need this victory also.” Scoring and not celebrating? That will be hard! Meanwhile, the Duckling can’t wait to play against Madrid because it’s a ‘dream come true’.
• Pirates of the Caribbean star, Veron (ok, we couldn’t resist) has declared that he is behind The Dona one hundred percent. Oh tio, stop sucking up! You’ve already qualified. “Maradona has to follow in office until the World Cup. He has qualified and it is not good to (quit),” he told Chilean newspapers.
• Oh nooo! Your favorite Portuglish speaking coach Joel Santana has stepped down from his post as South Africa’s coach after a run of bad results. They have lost eight of their last nine matches under Santana. We were looking forward to all the epic post-match interviews. Damn…someone else must hire him now!
• There are no Italian players in this year’s Ballon d’Or… but we see Yoann! They need to come up with a proper shortlist. This looks like names for a yearbook photo.

• Look what we have here. It’s Dani Alves the Goalkeeper! The Barca defender had a fairly easy training session yesterday with the rest of the squad, in preparation to face Rubin Kazan tonight. Meanwhile, Ibracadabra is doubtful for the clash but don’t throw him nasty looks. He did not go clubbing!

Photos via Marca, Getty