Top 100 Footballers’ Wives And Girlfriends
70. Dani Behr
Significant Other: Assorted
She may look like your typical WAG, but Dani Behr also has a brain. She graduated from the Sylvia Young Theatre School in London, and embarked on a doomed musical career. During such time, she also enjoyed the companionship of Welshman Ryan Giggs and alleged Blue Peter garden vandal Les Ferdinand. Dissed by the music industry, Dani instead has made a career out of being a presenter. In 2002, she was named Maxim’s female presenter of the year. To Americans she’s best known for her work on Extra, although she did narrate a show about the Vivid Girls (who also put out the Kim Kardashian sext tape) called Porno Valley. Dani has also done some acting, including a role in The Vagina Monologues for New York and London. I sense a theme here between Porno Valley and The Vagina Monologues.
69. Valentina Zambrotta
Significant Other: married to Gianluca Zambrotta (AC Milan)
I’m not familiar with professional downhill rollerblading, but apparently Valentia is one of some amount of them. There may be ten, there may be ten thousand. I have no idea. Although, her more than ample chest probably doesn’t help her wind resistance in such a sport. Such a genetic disadvantage. When not seen rollerblading, she’s often seen at the beach, often with Milan and Azzurri defender Gianluca Zambrotta. The Italians do have a difficult life.
68. Pamela Camassa
Significant Other: dated Alberto Aquilani (A.S. Roma)
A Miss Italy finalist, Pamela was chosen to represent her country in the 2002 Miss World Pageant held in Nigeria. Except she boycotted the event for human rights reasons (she was protesting societies who still carry out stoning executions). She also stepped out with manwhore Alberto Aquilani in his pre-Quattrociocche days. Chillemi won Miss Italy, where as Camassa was merely a finalist. You can see the need for an upgrade. Like many WAGs, she’s also made an appearance on the local Dancing with Stars show, in this case Italy’s Ballando con le Stele.
67. Joanna Taylor
Significant Other: married to Danny Murphy (Fulham)
Hollyoaks is a British soap centered aroundthe fictional Hollyoaks Community College and its late teens or early twenties characters. It’s also a breeding ground for future WAGs. Enter Joanna Taylor, who won the role of Geri Hudson on the show in 1999. She’s continued acting on and off, plus goes a little more sophisticated by contributing a weekly column to The Times newspaper about her life as wife of vagabond footballer Danny Murphy.
66. Kristina Liliana
Significant Other: married to Lothar Matthäus (retired)
When you have three failed marriages and are still short of fifty, it’s not a good sign. Undettered, ex-German star Lothar Matthäus has moved on from wife number three to Ukranian model Kristina Liliana. It’s an odd and disturbing pairing of a late 40s man and a young 20s model. What’s weirder is that Liliana was living with her mother when she met Matthäus. Although I shouldn’t feel too sorry for Kristina, she looks like she can hold her own from the photo above and I kind of dig that.
65. Nives Celzijus
Significant Other: married to Dino Drpić (Karlsruher SC on a loan from Dinamo Zagreb)
The definition of a classy WAG, she has admitted to having sex with her hubby right on the midfield pitch of Maksimir Stadium. Oddly, her husband was loaned to another team shortly afterwards. The Croatian singer/model/socialite/writer/some other tacked on title recently wrote an autobiography, Gola Istina (translated to the Naked Truth), where she describes her life before her marriage to the Croatian footballer. I suspect it’s pretty much the same as it is now, you know, R-Rated but sans Drpić. You can check out one of her music videos over here.
64. Magdalena Graaf
Significant Other: ex-wife of Magnus Hedman (retired)
Hedman’s been kicked aside by a few soccer clubs, and apparently he’s been kicked aside by his wife too. Or maybe it was the other way around? For Hedman’s sake I hope it was her that did the dumping, otherwise I’d question his decision making. Graaf is a Swedish model, singer, and author who became popular with her sister Hannah in the aptly named group, The Graaf Sisters. Their hit song “You Got What I Want Baby” gave them a brief modicum of fame like other Euro one-hit wonders like Aqua. In addition to her vocal skills, Graaf released a biography, Det ska bli ett sant nöje att döda de (or in English, It’s Going to be a Pleasure to Kill You). Supposedly the title is not in reference to Magnus, but upon further review maybe he was smart to get out of the relationship.
63. Letizia Filippi
Significant Other: dated Cristiano Ronaldo
Cristiano reportedly met Letizia while being on a holiday with then girlfriend Nereida Gallardo (more on her later). One Italian newspaper claimed Letizia stole his attention with, “a gaze that melted him like an icicle in the sun.” Not the visual I was going for. Filippi came in third in the 1994 Miss Italy competition, and rose to fame on the show Buona Domenica (“The Good Sunday”). In addition to Ronaldo, Filippi is a Winter Olympics WAG, having dated Italian playboy/skiing champion Alberto Tomba for two years.
62. Manuela Arcuri
Significant Other: Assorted
Owing to her relationships with countless high profile celebrities, Arcuri simply can’t keep out of the tabloids in her native Italy. Think of her as an Italian Danielle Lloyd. With more talent. And less evil. She apparently used to date Francesco Totti, as well as retired Italian and possible gay player Francesco Coco. Like the vast majority of the Italian soccer WAGs, Arcuri’s background of showgirl and model has prepared her perfectly for the life of a WAG. At least after she decided that her degree in sociology wasn’t worth pursuing.
61. Anara Atanes
Significant Other: Assorted
She’s managed to date both Fredrik Ljungberg and Kieran Richardson, the latter after the Sutherland bad boy stole her away from the sweet Swede. You can check out her finest broken English and some more photos over at her blog.
