Sex, Alcohol and Cumbia: Lionel Messi?

Sprinkle this liberally with a grain of salt, but there are some tabloids in Argentina that are linking Lionel Messi of all people with an influx of botineras or what we call Wags into his very exclusive luxury hotel room over-looking the Rio La Plata. The boy is wealthy, single and on vacation, so I make no value judgements over his choices, but you have to question this timing (if it's true I add) with the Copa America being held in Argentina next month.

That said, would you trade your day-job for nights of clubbing debauchery, and a parade of these hot, nubile babes as they are reporting? Amongst the conquests in the Pulga-partment apparently are Xoana González, a 23 year old former mechanic and contestant on Soñando por Bailar (Dreaming of Dancing), reality television and Playboy model Claudia Ciardone who traded up from Carlos Tevez it seems, underwear model Andrea Rincón, pseudo-Mexican footballer Nery Cardozo's ex-girlfriend Sabrina Ravelli and model/actress Luli Salazar who famously said she would go naked in the Obelisk of Buenos Aires alongside Diego Maradona, if Argentina won the 2010 FIFA World Cup. See below for more info.

It's a hilarious mix of bad television, greed and plastic surgery fueled by sex, alcohol and some mad cumbia beats. It seems highly unlikely considering both the source and the player who has constructed a media profile that accentuates his boyish almost nerdy charm, but before you dismiss this totally though, just remember that he did learn to have fun at the feet of famous party-animals Ronaldinho and Deco...

Sex, Alcohol and cumbia?
Xoana González Claudia Ciardone Andrea Rincón Sabrina Ravelli Luli Salazar

Wag of the Week: Sara Carbonero

I´m not going to get into the fact that she´s Iker´s plaything, partied with the Hollywood crowd, or that she just dissed Cristiano Ronaldo for being too ¨individualistic and egotistical¨ saying what every real madridista has been dying to say over the last three weeks. Ignore the fact that she´s Spain´s darling for kissing Saint Iker on national television after their improbable World Cup victory (yes, I said improbable, the favorite rarely wins these things I might add) or even the fact that girl is smoking hot in a pair of cut off jeans and a low-cut white blouse.

I know it´s hard. It´s  a difficult thing to wrap my head around. It´s not just that she´s an attractive sideline decoration.  My fascination comes from the fact that she is all that and a bag-o-chips. She knows her stuff. Football is her life and she is well-respected as a journo. She´s not just sideline eye-candy, although a particularly sultry brand of sideline eye candy. Are there any more out there like her? Doubtful. That´s why she´s the Forza Futbol Wag of the Week.