International breaks aren’t just boring for the fans, they’re boring for the players too. So while they were stuck in a South African hotel, members of the Brazil squad put together their own FIFA 14 tournament and learned an important fact: That while Hulk is quite good at real football, he’s terrible at the Playstation 4 version.

Hulk was apparently so bad that David Luiz, posted the following video to Instagram along with the caption: "And the worst at the game is ....HULK,HULK,HULK,HULKKKKKKKK! Hahahahah @hulkparaiba"

As you can see, they were very, very bored.

So who won the tournament? Well, according to Neymar’s league table, which was handwritten on Hyatt Regency stationary paper, Neymar beat Oscar in one semifinal and Fred beat Jo in the other.http://blogya.de/Gilllie/ Neymar then beat Fred 1-0 in the final to become the champion of the Johannesburg Hyatt Regency room number whatever room they’re in.

Clearly he is now ready for the World Cup...video game that EA Sports will release in April.

Popular athletic apparel, footwear, and accessories manufacturer Under Armour (NYSE: UA ) has done well over the years to attract both male and female athletes to its brand. Take one look inside your local gym and it’s obvious that the company has already conquered the space for the most part.

However, in order to ensure that the Under Armour brand remains strong for years and decades to come, company management has started to aggressively target America’s youth. In much the same way that Nike became a household name by ingraining its brand in the minds of generations of consumers, Under Armour is looking to solidify its position among today’s youth and tomorrow’s consumers.

Superhero-sized attempt
It is no secret that young boys and girls have a fascination with superheroes. If you need proof, just look at the massive success that Walt Disney (NYSE: DIS ) has had with its Marvel Entertainment property in recent years.

Marvel’s The Avengers broke all kinds of movie-premiere records and grossed a staggering $1.5 billion in 2012. A year later, Iron Man 3 proved the success was not a fluke, as the more narrowly focused movie still managed to generate more than $1.2 billion. The upcoming sequel to The Avengers called Age of Ultron is due in 2015 and follows the same release schedule as its predecessor. It will most likely be an even bigger commercial success given that Disney continues to build up the plot and character arcs.

So, where does Under Armour come in? It’s simple: The retailer is capitalizing on the country’s fixation with superheroes by offering apparel that features some of the more notable characters. In anticipation of Marvel’s upcoming Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Under Armour has designed fully functional workout gear with Captain America’s signature logo as part of its ongoing Alter Ego collection.

The company’s website cleverly explains, "Alter Ego. Transform yourself. It doesn’t just help you work, it lets you feel like you can do anything -- like a super hero -- every time you train."

The company’s website also shows shirts modeled after Iron Man’s battle suit, Hulk,’s transformed body, and Thor’s hammer drop. The strategy is not limited to Disney’s Marvel characters either. Under Armour’s Alter Ego line has gear that prominently features Batman and Superman logos as well.

In addition to offering products with traditional superhero designs, Under Armour’s signature workout apparel is featured prominently in many popular movies nowadays. For instance, the company’s Vent http://www.tshirtinuk.com/ football shirts and Speedform Apollo sneaker both make appearances in Captain America: The Winter Soldier.

Although Under Armour is offering the Alter Ego line to consumers of all ages, the line makes the most sense for kids and young adults. As they grow up watching and wanting to emulate the big screen’s latest incarnation of superheroes, America’s youth will want to wear the same gear worn by their heroes.

You might have heard that Chelsea need a new striker and will go all-out to get one in the summer. Wayne Rooney is out of the question now – he’s off limits after being rewarded for his unstinting loyalty and world-class performances at Manchester United. Radamel Falcao, has jiggered his knee. Diego Costa could be the one, but you wouldn’t necessarily want to cross Atlético Madrid capo Diego Simeone, who looks like he should be in Scarface instead of prowling the touchline at the Vicente Calderón, ready to torch anyone who looks at him funny.

So news that Hulk has been photographed in London is an intriguing development, news that surely means that the Zenit St Petersburg forward is on his way to Chelsea, who happen to play in London. Hulk in London. Chelsea in London. There is some fine detective work going on this morning and no mistake, all the pieces of the puzzle are coming together, and not one of them has Romelu Lukaku’s face on it.

Elsewhere! Everton would like to give Jack Rodwell a home, which is generous of them. Manuel Pellegrini has forgotten about Rodwell’s existence at Manchester City and he hasn’t been fed for days. His former club are quite concerned. Edin Dzeko is also on his way out of City. He’s a target for Internazionale, although they’re playing dumb. Nothing to see here! We’ll see.

Liverpool were blind for a good eight years but now they see. For a while, they refused to acknowledge that Pepe Reina is not one of the greatest goalkeepers who ever lived but an accident waiting to happen, albeit an accident waiting to happen with brilliant PR, but there was no fooling Brendan Rodgers – that’s Kolo Touré’s job. As such, Reina was allowed to join Napoli on loan last summer and will now be let go for the princely sum of £4m this summer.

Lukas Podolski is a thoroughly pointless player in the grand scheme of things but he could make himself useful by acting as a makeweight in a deal for Schalke’s Julian Draxler. But he says he doesn’t want to, even though he could make himself an Arsenal http://www.arsenal.com legend if he behaves himself. Meanwhile Arsène Wenger doesn’t want to bring back Robin van Persie, because he’s got Ryo Miyai … oh.

Neil Taylor would quite like to leave Swansea City, who are being linked with the Feyernoord coach Ronald Koeman. Apparently his agent has been in touch with Swansea to ask whether Koeman is a "suitable candidate" for a job which isn’t currently vacant.

And there we have it. It is a slow news day in the world of the rumour and, if the Mill is being totally honest with you, the loyal and valued reader, our heart isn’t really in it this morning. If no one else can be bothered to make up some hot transfer chat, why should we? The Mill’s not a miracle worker.

Getting Brazilian striker Hulk into a Chelsea football t-shirt http://www.tshirtinuk.com/Chelsea-Shirt.html has proved mission impossible for the Blues over the years, but with talk that the 27-year-old is unhappy with life at Zenit Saint Petersburg emerging, now may be their best chance to wrestle him into one.

Hulk, a transfer target for Chelsea since Andre Villas-Boas’ reign, signed for Zenit in 2012 for a reported €60 million and has scored 16 goals in 33 league appearances for the Russian club. Despite that impressive return, Hulk’s agent Shandor Varga told the Izvestia newspaper that his player is ready to move on and that England will be his likely destination, as per the Metro:

Despite the huge transfer fee required to sign Hulk, don’t rule out that he will move to one of the top clubs in Europe this summer. English clubs still have the highest chance of signing him.

With Samuel Eto’o, Demba Ba and Fernando Torres just not quite cutting the mustard at Chelsea, it’s no secret that manager Jose Mourinho will be after a world-class striker in the summer to add the remaining pieces of his talented puzzle at Stamford Bridge. And in Hulk, Mourinho may well have found his man.

A £40 million price tag doesn’t attach itself to a player without just cause, and Hulk justifies it with his lightning pace, expert finishing ability and the kind of strength that his incredible namesake would be proud of. During his four-year spell with Porto, he netted 54 league goals to warrant his big-money move to Zenit, where his goalscoring figures have once again shown Chelsea what they’re missing out on.

Looking at Torres, Eto’o and Ba this season, the trio has scored just 14 league goals between them, with only Eto’o eclipsing the five-goal mark. Meanwhile, Hulk has nine league goals in just 15 appearances.

I know that the Russian Premier League doesn’t offer the same standard of football as the Premier League, but with service coming from the likes of Eden Hazard, Oscar and Willian, what’s the excuse for the Chelsea front men?

Take Bayern Munich’s Mario Mandzukic, for example, he’s talented, but his goals tend to come from another player’s brilliance rather than his own. With the "three amigos" in the Chelsea midfield, the chance is there for a striker to earn the "prolific" tag.

While Juan Mata didn’t fit into the Mourinho system, Hulk wouldn’t have the same problem in blue.

Chelsea are very much an "on the floor" team that dissects defences rather than forcing their way through them with target men, and with the skill that Hulk has at his feet, he’d be perfect for the forward role. Elegant as he is on the ball, he still has strength and know-how to bulldoze his way through a back line when he needs to.

At 27 years of age, Hulk is still young and enjoying the prime of his career. With Mourinho looking to cement Chelsea’s place amongst Europe’s elite, landing a player like Hulk to lead the line would be a step in the right direction. There’s just the small matter of coughing up £40 million to deal with.

With Bayern sweeping all before them in the Bundesliga this season, the Gunners aren’t fancied to upset the odds.

But it seems Mesut Ozil is unfazed by the prospect of taking on the defending European champions!

The German midfield anchor who went dressed as Superman to the club’s Christmas party, took to Facebook in a bid to show that Arsenal’s ’superheroes’ aren’t afraid.

The unity in the Brazil camp has been highlighted by Hulk, when answering questions for the Gillette Brasil Global Tour after he was asked questions about his teammate- and rival for a starting berth at this summer’s World Cup- Willian. Hulk’s positivity about the Chelsea man displayed a real family spirit within the squad.

"Willian is a great player. I’ve always followed his career since he left Brazil early- I watched him in the Champions League for Shakhtar and have played against him too. He’s got incredible quality and is deservedly playing for Brazil as he is a very good player."

"He’s playing well for Chelsea and deserves the best because as well as being a good player, he’s a great guy off the pitch too, so i wish him the best of luck."

The pair are vying for a place in Brazil’s starting XI alongside Oscar and Neymar, with Hulk the apparent frontrunner as it stands.

There are several versions of how Givanildo Vieira de Souza came to be known as Hulk and some of them prompt amusing images. It has been suggested that Chelsea’s prospective signing owes it all to his likeness to Lou Ferrigno, the bodybuilder/actor who played the Incredible Hulk in the American TV series. Or that the nickname was linked to his time in Japan, when his rippling physique carried the green shirt of Tokyo Verdy.

The reality is a little disappointing. The 25-year-old’s father, Djovan, was simply a massive fan of the Ferrigno series and he affectionately bestowed the moniker on his son. And it has stuck.

It is pure gold, of course, for the headline writers. When the Porto forward became embroiled in a tunnel brawl against Benfica in December 2009 and was banned for four months by the Portuguese Primeira Liga, he became the "Ineligible Hulk". The phrase "Don’t make him angry" was virtually demanded in copy.

Yet behind the muscles and the superhero schtick is a quiet and humble professional, who has put in the hard yards and the air-miles to stand on the brink of his dream move to Chelsea. The basic fee of £38m has been agreed and his personal terms will not represent an obstacle. Why should they when his relatively modest Porto wage is set to rocket to £110,000 a week? The final stages of a transfer can be the most excruciating. Hulk just wants to hold the Chelsea shirt and smile for the cameras.

His journey from Campina Grande in Brazil has taken in rejection by the biggest clubs in his country, a move to Europe at a youthful age, the machinations of agents who have controlled his economic rights and a trawl around unheralded Japanese clubs. But his career found its touchstone when Porto took him from Tokyo Verdy in 2008 – they paid €5.5m to his third-party owners for 50% of his rights – and he has become arguably the most loved player at the Estádio do Dragão since Jardel, another Brazilian who knew his way to goal.

In his four seasons at the club, he has won three league titles and three Portuguese Cups, together with the Europa League in 2011, which represented the final leg of the treble under André Villas-Boas. The goals have poured in. Over the past two seasons, he scored 57 in 91 appearances. But he has also won hearts with the strength of his personality.

After the Europa League triumph, when Villas-Boas was lured away by Chelsea and Atlético Madrid paid €40m to sign the striker Radamel Falcao, the team threatened to break up. But Hulk, the captain, kept his head down and he helped to keep things together. Porto finished as the champions. His captaincy is not of the tub-thumping, grand oration variety. He leads by example.

Hulk had offers to leave last summer but he felt a debt to the Porto president Pinto da Costa, who had dealt sensitively with the great personal tragedy to affect the player. Hulk was shattered when his little niece was left unattended for a fatal moment at a family get-together in August 2010 at the house that he had bought for them in Campina Grande. She fell into the swimming pool and drowned. Hulk was not there but Da Costa told him to return home and take all the time that he needed. Hulk has subsequently celebrated goals with a look up at the heavens.

He is all about family, and is extremely close to his sister and brother, the latter of whom could be expected to accompany him to London. Life was tough for Hulk as he grew up and he recalls how his father, who sold meat at the local market, would wake him in the small hours to take him along, even when he was a mere toddler. Upon their return, Hulk would play futsal for the rest of the day.

Hulk was spotted by an agent playing for a team in Campina Grande and he was taken for a trial at Corinthians only to be passed over. The agent had a connection at Vilanovense in Portugal and he took Hulk there to begin his youth apprenticeship. At the age of 16, Hulk visited the Estádio do Dragão and he declared that, one day, he would play for Porto. Everybody laughed.

Vilanovense could not afford to buy out his rights and, back in Brazil, São Paulo refused to pay a sum that amounted to €18,000 for his signature. He was taken to Vitoria, where he made his debut before, after one further appearance, he was whisked to Japan in 2005. He played for Kawasaki Frontale, Consadole Sapporo and Tokyo Verdy, which had to go down as an unusual grounding for a career at the top level in Europe.

Hulk took the No12 shirt at Porto, in honour of the fans, the team’s 12th man, and H12 has become a brand name, a little like Cristiano Ronaldo’s CR7. Hulk has a football school in Campina Grande that he called H12 while he has dressed up his sports car with H12 logos.

It would be a mistake, though, to construe him as flash or egotistical and he would also be largely exonerated by the Portuguese Football Federation for his red mist in the tunnel against Benfica, when CCTV footage showed him rucking with stewards. They effectively overruled the League’s verdict when they said he had been provoked and should only have been suspended for four matches. The trouble was that when they reached the decision, he had already sat out three months of domestic football.

Hulk felt persecuted after the incident and he has had his problems with referees, feeling that they do not offer him protection. Manchester City fans, though, took a dim view of what they saw as play acting from him during the Europa League meeting in February. "You’re not incredible," they sang to him.

Hulk trades on his explosiveness when cutting in from the right, his power and his ability to make the difference in one-on-ones. His arrival at Chelsea would make a difference to Porto’s accounts and it would provide yet another link between the clubs.

Chelsea have taken Ricardo Carvalho, Paulo Ferreira and José Bosingwa from Porto for a combined £49.25m, and they paid a total of £18m to secure the release of the managers José Mourinho and Villas-Boas. Of the current squad, Raul Meireles and Henrique Hilário are also ex-Porto.

Porto paid a further €13.5m last summer to buy another chunk of Hulk’s economic rights – they now own 85% – and the remaining 15% will need to be squared before the Premier League signs off the transfer. Porto will simply purchase it and then sell. For Hulk, the excitement is tangible.