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WAGS!
WAGs or Wives & Girlfriends have dominated the tabloid headlines with almost as much regularity and fervour as their footballer Boyfriends and Husbands (BAH?). It would be amiss for us not to include this very important aspect of footballing culture. So here's our starting 11 of the WAGs line up. Our favourite WAGs. Tell us if you agree/ disagree!
The oldest of our WAGS, Louise nonetheless deserves a place in the WAGs hall of fame. Before Beckham & Posh, Louise and Jamie Redknapp were the leading celebrity couple featuring a handsome football and glamour model. Louise Nurding as she was born, had a singing career and a stint with the pop group Eternal, and later as a solo performer with a British #3 chart hit to her credit. She has also worked in Television and most notably as a lingerie model for Triumph, and for many other less revealing brands.
What can be said about her that isn't already public news! Her middle name is Caroline. Wikipedia describes her as a singer, dancer, fashion designer, author, businesswoman, actress and model. The name Posh was given to her during the early Spice Girls days. Probably one of the less remarkable Spice girls, everything else apart from her singing has been newsworthy. Popular and unpopular in equal measure, she has been the face of the size zero craze. She has pioneered a number of fashion trends, through her own turn out and also through her fashion label. She famously admitted to having never read a book despite having written one. But if there is an uber-WAG, it's her. From Manchester to Milan, via Los Angeles, the Beckhams have made news and survived the Rebecca Loos affair. Among the 60 richest women in Britan, mother of 3, and by all accounts a good mum, Posh Beckham has a life to be proud of.
Lampard and his Spanish fiancée, Elen Rives, live in Surrey with their two children, the latter born just hours after Chelsea won the 2007 FA Cup. Earlier married to Nael Asad, from Jordan, according to Daily Mail, she worked as a waitress and receptionist in Abu Dhabi. According to the report, at the time she converted to Islam to marry Nael. Of course once they moved to London and things changed - she moved out, and later, met Frank Lampard, her life took a very different trajectory.
She started life much like her boyfriend and now hubby - Wayne Rooney - on a council estate in Croxteth. A relationship that started at 16 has survived the brushes with fame and notoriety and a few other more serious transgressions of Wayne Rooney. She is the ugly duckly turned beautiful swan of the WAG brigade. Taking criticism and jealousy in her stride, she now has her own career, style and voice.
Being married to the heartbeat of Liverpool football club and arguably England's best footballer means that Alex is often referred to as an uber-wag. She writes her own columns and has launched her own fragrance - "Alex". She started 2009 much like Ronaldo, with a car crash - though her's was minor and the car was largely unhurt, unlike the unfortunate chap who got into a recent bar-brawl with hubby Steven Gerrard.
Cheryl Tweedy was already a musician with a career of her own with the biggest girl-band since the Spice Girls. Arguably one of the prettiest faces around, Cheryl Cole is one of the few people about whom it might be said that her relationship with Ashley Cole actually diminishes her stardom - thanks to Cole's general unpopularity. Worse, last year he was found to have had a sordid one-night drunken affair and public opinion has been firmly on her side. A judging spot on the talent show X Factor and an altercation with charges of racial assault and attackng an attendant in a night club bookend her life to date and is a good indication of her progress. Arsene Wenger once said of Ferguson "Everybody thinks they have the prettiest wife at home". Well Ashley Cole might just think that and he might be right.
Welsh born, but brought up in London, Carly was a fitness trainer and a fiancee of Joe Cole, the Chelsea and England winger. Zucker was in the 2008 reality show "I'm a celebrity, get me out of here", where amongst other things, she gained notoriety by flashing her bum on television. Her modelling career has been largely fitness oriented fashion magazines.
The bad girl among the WAGs, Abbey Clancy was sent back in the middle of the world cup, amidst allegations of cocaine use and cheating on her boyfriend - Peter Crouch. The drug allegations haven't gone away but Abbey clancy's lingerie modelling career has been quite steady and so far, her relationship with Crouch seems to be on an even keel as well.
She married Italian football star Francesco Totti on June 19, 2005; they have two children. Ranked high on most WAGS list, she's also married to one of the sexiest men in the world of football - Franceco Totti. She's been on screen since the age of 3 and has been the face of a number of leading shows in Italy (lucky buggers!).
Spotted as a modelling prospect at age 6, the early promise was clearly fulfilled as Noemie went on to become a well known model including lingerie for Victoria's Secret, and also for GAP, Next and currently, the face of M&S. Sh has also had a few film roles - including in Rush Hour 3 and the Asterix film "Mission Cleopatre". Married to Claud Makalele, and mother of one, she's lucky to be in France where personal lives are treated as personal and not meant for devouring by the public. But surely having a defensive midfielder par excellence around helps!
Christiano Ronaldo's current girlfriend, although plenty of rumours
about this already being consigned to the "Ex" Box. Based in Mallorca,
very little is known about her except that she is a model and a
student. And her last name is Alvarez. Apart from her obvious and often
photographed assets, and plenty of coverage across the internet, which
we urge you to enjoy before the relationship blows over.
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