As I said before in the first John Terry affair blog, it's impossible to quantify in the U.S. just how famous soccer players are overseas. In the U.S., we know some athletes' WAGs (wives and girlfriends) but we're not on a first name basis with all of them.
It's a complete different story in the UK, Europe and South America. With that said, anything related to the soccer players is gold (see BBC's Footballer Wives-a racy melodrama) and their significant others are a perfect example. Most soccer WAGs were nobodies before they started dating their footballers. Now modeling, singing and a whole bunch of other half-ass careers are open to these fine ladies.
Nothing makes a cold New England winter a little better than the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit issue. I received it today and was psyched to find out that they had a special section featuring Bodypainting: Soccer WAGs-Germany's Sarah Brandner (Bastian Schweinsteiger), England's Abbey Clancy (Peter Crouch), the U.S.'s Bethany Dempsey (Clint Dempsey) and Italy's Melissa Satta (Christian Vieri).
It's not breaking news to say that money makes any Lyle Lovett look like Brad Pitt but if you needed further proof, just look at Clancy and then take a gander at Crouch, who is a human Big Bird and one of the ugliest humans on the face of the earth.
So without further ado, here's four more reasons to tune into the 2010 World Cup.
