Mario Balotelli was a strange signing and I am not sure he ever fulfilled his potential (at least the potential seen in him by the Manchester City scouts). But he had a certain way about him. He met a young supporter out side the Manchester City training ground in 2011 and wanted to know why the lad wasn't at school. The boy replied that he was being bullied at school, so immediately Mario went to the school with the boy and his mother, demanding to see the headmaster and to sort out the issue!
Sheffield United's Keith Gillespie was sent off for elbowing Stephen Hunt, just 12 seconds after Gillespie had come onto the pitch as a substitute. In fact the ball hadn't actually come back onto the pitch having gone out of play in the game against Reading in January 2007. This means that Gillespie was sent off after 0 seconds!
Argentine player, Adrian Bastis, received a strange red card, when he tackled a pitch invader in a game between Asterad Tripolis and Panathinaikos in 2008. The referee saw the other side of this and gave Adrian a red card for violent conduct.
In 2010, Brazilian Police stormed onto the pitch where Genus and Moto Cube were playing when a red carded player refused to leave the pitch. The riot squad fully kitted out, sprayed the gulity party and several other players around him, before they could get the pitch cleared and the game restarted with no more protestors!
Do you remember Alfredo di Stefano, a Real Madrid star who was also a Colombian, Argentinan and Spanish international? When Real visited Venezuela on tour, he was kidnapped and eventually let go without any ransom being paid.....he played the next day!
Di Stefano played for River Plate from 1945 (66 apps/49 goals), then Huracan-Arg (25 apps/10goals), Millonarios-Colom (101 apps/90 goals), before signing for Real Madrid-Spain (282 apps/216 goals). I remember seeing him playing in the European Cup Final (on tv) when Real Madrid beat Eintracht Frankfurt 7-3 at Hampden Park. He finished with Espanyol-Spain in 1966 (47 apps/11 goals). TOTAL=521 apps/376 goals.
SEE STORY BELOW -Saeta Rubela-the Blond Arrow..the one on the left.. Di Stéfano married Sara Freites in 1950; they had six children: Alfredo, Ignacio, Sofia, Silvana, Helena, and Nanette. Sara died in 2005.
In 2013, an 86-year-old Di Stéfano was in a relationship with his 36-year-old personal secretary, Gina González (see above with the Blond Arrow). He announced his plans to marry her in the same year, but died from a heart attack in July 2014 before this happened.
He played for Argentina 6 times with 6 goals.... and then Colombia 4 times, because he could!! (he never had a Colombian passport) and then he was nationalised in Spain from 1957-62 with 31 apps/23 goals. Many described him as the title reveals. He is rated in the top 100 players in history by FIFA.
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