Further proof that Italian footballers have a ‘type’
Although not quite at Iain Dowie’s level, AC Milan’s former centre-back Alessandro Costacurta is about as ‘homely’ as an Italian gentleman can get. Despite this aesthetic impediment, the 42-year-old (who only retired last year) has managed to land Martina Colombari as a wife. Like every other Italian WAG out there, she is a Miss Italy winner (1991) who is partial to removing her clothes in front of the lens…
This Italian model has no time for the beautiful game
In the WAG hierarchy, it doesn’t get much better than bagging a World Cup winner, and that’s exactly what Italian model/ TV presenter Marta Cecchetto has achieved - she met Bayern Munich striker Luca Toni nine years ago at a nightclub, when the striker was with lowly Lodigiani. Thirty-year-old Marta has been a model for sixteen years (she has represented countless high end brands and appeared on the cover of plenty of snooty fashion magzines) and she has since branched into television work.
A Hornets fan has discovered a perfect way to distract San Antonio Spurs point guard Tony Parker, by holding up a big ol’ cardboard cutout of his wife Eva Longoria. The beardy chap looks delighted with his idea, but unless that thing is double-sided, I’m betting the people in the rows behind him aren’t enjoying the game quite as much.
Premier League fans could learn from this crafty misdirection - next time you’re seated behind the goal, why not take a Danielle Lloyd cutout to distract Jermain Defoe, or maybe a gaggle* of cardboard prostitutes to take Ronaldo’s eye off the ball…
*Yes, I checked, and ‘gaggle’ is the correct collective term for cardboard prostitutes.
Due to a trend started by good ol’ George Best in the sixties, the most popular occupation of your typical WAG of the Day appears to be ‘beauty queen’: Miss Italy 2003 Francesca Chillemi joins Aída Yéspica, Vincenza Cacace, Elisabetta Gregoraci and Giorgia Palmas in the realm of competitive goodlookingness. Francesca’s efforts have been rewarded not only with a crown and scepter, but also the affections of Cagliari Calcio’s Vincenzo Marruocco and more recently Roma’s sass-mouthed midfielder Alberto Aquilani.
South American WAG’s beauty is scandalous in Italy
Somehow, The Spoiler’s WAG of the Day feature has managed to bypass Venezuelan beauty queen Aída Yéspica on 88 separate occasions, but today we’re finally making amends. The former Miss Amazonas moved to Italy in 2003, where her constant nude modelling shoots (do a Google image search of her name, I dare you) caught the attention of Milan’s Pippo Inzaghi. She then moved onto Roma’s Matteo Ferrari, but is best known in the boot shaped nation for causing a political scandal. Mischief-making ex Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi reportedly said ‘With you I’d go anywhere,’ to Aída, causing his wife to demand an apology in a letter to Italy’s largest newspaper La Repubblica.
Italy’s greatest export since pizza and corruption
It seems that absolutely nothing can stop an Italian sports star landing one of his nation’s infinite amount of gorgeous models as a WAG. Just ask former AC Milan and Fiorentina star Giuseppe Pancaro - his goatee-clad face, thinning hair and distinct lack of silverware has not stopped him shacking up with the very lovely Vincenza Cacace.
Chelsea’s head honcho now owns slightly more of London
Although his attendance at Chelsea games has been less than exemplary of late, any rumours that Roman Abramovich is bored with his West London plaything may be quashed by his latest property investment.
The Russian oligarch originally bought a flat for in the pricey SW1 Lowndes Square building for just over £1m in the late nineties. He and (ex-) wife Irina lived there for several years, but it seems model girlfriend Daria Zhukova requires a little more space for her expansive array of tiny bikinis. Hence, Rom has slowly bought up the rest of the building and can now realise his dream of turning the whole thing into a gigantic palatial residence…
