Kaka rules out a move to Madrid or the Premier League

Kaka reiterated his desire to stay with Milan when asked yet again about new rumours linking him with a move to either Real Madrid or Manchester United.The Brazilian superstar has had to state his intention to stay at the San Siro on several occasions since a move to Manchester City did not materialise in January.

The media have consistently claimed that Milan's willingness to speak to the Premier League club is a sign that they may consider another huge bid.

He is enjoying life at Milan and is not seeking a move away. Said Kaka:

“I have already said and already shown that I am committed to this club so there is nothing else to add,” Kaka told the Italian media.

“I truly enjoy myself at San Siro and I am happy with the support I receive here,” he concluded.

More Brazil Nuts: Guaratingueta president Carlos Arini confronts the ref

Earlier in the week, Brazil of Comercial coach Pedro Santilli assaulting both an opposition player and the referee. And now lightening has struck twice, with Guaratingueta president Carlos Arini going head to head with referee Wallace Nascimento Valente during last Thursday’s Copa do Brasil match with Atletico MG.

The controversy blew up just before the halftime break.

Trailing 1-nil to a second minute goal from Guaru, Atletico MG were awarded a penalty just before the break after ref Valente erred in deciding against Guaratingueta keeper Juninho after a coming together with opposition striker Diego Tadell.

Bearing down on goal, Tadell attempted to take the ball around the keeper, only for the number one to dive at the forward’s feet managing to get both hands onto the ball and avert the danger. But with Tadell tumbling to the floor the match officials made a poor call in blowing up for a penalty, showing the red card to Juninho, before the spot-kick was duly dispatched by the visitors’ number 9.

It was all too much for Guaratingueta’s president Carlos Arini, who proceeded to burst onto the pitch at the break charging straight for the match officials to vent his anger after seeing his side victimised. Enraged, Arini refused to be controlled as both his own Guaratingueta players and the fourth official tried desperately to calm down the owner. For their part, the officials gaggled together under the watchful protection of local armed police.

A stand-off ensued, Arini hurling a barrage of abuse at the referee including calling the man in black a “thief” and shouting that Valente had “no shame” for his poor decision, before eventually being man-handled off the pitch as order was slowly restored.

The match ended 2-all.

Source: 101 Great Goals

The most Bizarre and Unique Roofs

Tongkonan are the traditional Torajan ancestral houses. They stand high on wooden piles, topped with a layered split-bamboo roof shaped in a sweeping curved arc, and they are incised with red, black, and yellow detailed wood carvings on the exterior walls. The word "tongkonan" comes from the Torajan tongkon ("to sit"). Tongkonan are the center of Torajan social life.

Casa Batlló Gaudi in Barcelona, Spain

Roof of the Core at the Eden Project, in Cornwall.

Up sided roof, at Seixal, Madeira

La Pedrera's roof

Meet Gaudi’s Casa Mila, more affectionately known as la Pedrera in Barcelona. The roofs of most buildings are stale and industrial, flat and square, dotted with aluminium vents and plain brick chimneys. Gaudi turned his vents and chimneys into sentinels who, through the narrow slits in their helmets, would keep permanent watch over the building’s residents. The undulating roof is tiled and dotted not only by the helmeted warriors, but also by several bulbous sculptures covered in a mosaic of white tiles.

Rocky roof, at San Clemente Piers

This proposed village for Heden, a sleepy cityblock in Sweden’s Gothenburg, has more than a touch of Hobbiton about it.

From the top of the Florian tower in Dortmund, Germany.

California’s Academy of Sciences (SF) is covered in rolling hills - the perfect place for students to grab their lunch in the sun.

Roof of Water Reservoir, Mina

One of the earliest strange but beautiful objects to be seen in Google Earth is the roof of Water Reservoir at Mina near holy city of Makkah, Saudi Arabia. The water reservoir caters to about 2 millions pilgrims who gather every year at Mina, during Hajj and it is covered by this huge reinforced concrete shell roof which has a diameter of 365 metres. It is one the largest cable-stayed concrete shell roofs in the world.

Brazilian Leaf Roof

Outside of Rio de Janeiro, on a beautiful little beach with amazing blue water, sits a little house with a flowering roof that shades and protects like a big tropical banana leaf. Designed by Mareines + Patalano, the open air abode is meant to encourage interaction and connection between man and nature. With verandas and open spaces in between rooms and no corridors, the tropical beach house is an ideal place for social gatherings and parties. The open layout also takes advantage of trade winds that blow in from the sea, providing natural ventilation and passive cooling.

Brazil Nuts: Coach pushes over a player before punching the ref in the gob

The incident comes from Sunday’s Paulista A2 meeting between Comercial Ribeirao Preto and Gremio Catanduvens, where Comercial coach Pedro Santilli appeared to lose all sense of reason as the manager began throwing his weight around pitch-side, leading to two separate assaults.

For an unknown reason, most likely seeing his side trailing to his opponents, Pedro Santilli lost his head midway through the second half.

A second ball appeared on the pitch which allowed Santilli an opportunity to run onto the turf. Returning with the ball in his arms, the mature coach deliberately barged into a Catanduvens player, the player immediately hurling himself to the ground after being clattered into by the surprise attack.

Looking to defuse the situation, the referee, Flavio Rodrigues de Souza, called Santilli over for a quiet word with the coach. But rather than apologise for his unprovoked attack, the coach went even further by punching the match official in his mouth.

Brilliantly Santilli did not wait to be dismissed, heading off the pitch with the ball still under his arm.

Real Madrid reserve number 5 shirt for Kaka

While the British press are preoccupied with the Cristiano Ronaldo to Real Madrid transfer saga, our Spanish friends seem to believe Los Blancos have eyes for only one man: Kaka.

According to the front page of Marca, the Brazilian has already been promised the number five shirt by likely Madrid president Florentino Perez. The squad number should be available, as Fabio Cannavaro is likely to depart in the summer.

Before Cannavaro, Madrid’s number five was worn by Zinedine Zidane. Therefore, if Kaka arrives in the summer, he will be the third consecutive Ballon D’or and FIFA World Player of the Year winner to wear the number.

A housebreaker to gamer?!

A Brazilian was head over heels in debt and to pay them off he decided to make a break-in. He broke into a house of an old lady. It took the police ten hours to arrest the housebreaker. Why ten hours?

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Samba parade in Rio de Janeiro