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Here are the hottest cheerleaders in the world, the girls of "Las Marineritas De Almirante Brown" from the 3rd Division (minor leagues) of the professional Argentine Football League.
This team was so bad that a few years ago they started using "Porritas" (cheerleaders) in their home matches. As all footballers know, American style cheerleaders don't belong in world football, but this club needed a little help in their attendance so they hired these local girls to help. That's right - local neighborhood girls, not models!
Their choreography may need some more work compare to their U.S. counter parts in the NFL, but no one cares about that during their half-time show. The fans are looking at other things....
Vlogger Deloestetv wrote ~ "Las Marineritas de Almirante Brown -Argentina- en el Programa Televisivo "La B Tv".
Here are the wives and girlfriends of seven of the top footballers in the world in a photo session for the Umbro World Champions Collection for the upcoming 19th FIFA World Cup, South Africa 2010. Each one of these seven girls and the jerseys they are wearing represents all the current and former World Cup champions in the history.
Football Shirt Culturewrote - "The wives and girlfriends of seven international football stars have been shot by legendary photographer Rankin for a stunning global advertising campaign to promote Umbros new World Champions Collection.
Abbey Clancy, the girlfriend of England striker Peter Crouch, has joined six other women who, like her, currently or previously have either dated or married an international footballer. And to make it even more relevant to this summers event, each girl represents one of the seven countries that have ever won the worlds biggest football tournament - Argentina, Brazil, England, France, Germany, Italy and Uruguay.
The striking image Rankin has produced is based on an iconic campaign run by Umbro in 1967, which famously featured girls cheekily wearing football shirts as dresses. For 2010, the campaign has been brought right up to date with the girls modelling the Umbro World Champions Collection. This truly inspired football range has been designed in collaboration with some of the hottest international artists, each hailing from the same country as each model. The twist in the brief to them was to base their design on the tailored silhouette of the Umbro England home shirt. I thought the idea of creating a modern interpretation of the Umbro advert from the sixties was an interesting concept. The girls in the campaign all look stunning and they were a pleasure to work with. Im extremely pleased with the results, says Rankin.
Rankin spent two days photographing these beautiful women. Argentina is represented by Luli Fernandez and has been designed in collaboration with Buenos Aires based record label, ZZK Records. Brazil is represented by the wife of Julio Cesar, Susana Werner, wearing a shirt designed by Fernando Chamarelli, an illustrator, visual artist and tattoo designer from Sao Paolo.
Model and TV presenter, Abbey Clancy, wears the England shirt. Abbey is striking in a shirt with a crest designed by Ben Eine, one of Englands most prominent street artists and graffiti pioneers. I loved the shoot with Rankin and the opportunity to be a part of recreating the famous Umbro advert from 67. The crest design is a really fun take on a traditional, regal crest, said Abbey.
Charlene Suric, girlfriend of France & Arsenal left back Gaël Clichy, is wearing the French shirt, designed in collaboration with Andre, the Paris based graffiti artist and international fashion authority.
Germany is represented by Julia Godicke. Julias shirt has been designed by Marok, Berlins legendary magazine mogul and cultural icon. Alice Bregoli is married to Alberto Gilardino, the Italian and Fiorentina player, and will be featured wearing a shirt designed in collaboration with Italian comics author, illustrator and artist, Tanino Liberatore.
Finally, Uruguays inaugural 1930 and legendary 1950 World Cup wins are represented by Zaira Nara, who dates Uruguay and Atletico Madrid striker, Diego Forlan. Zairas shirt crest was designed by Martin Albronoz, a mixed media artist from Montevideo.
Trevor Cairns, Chief Marketing Officer from Umbro explains why the brand took this direction. Looking back through our imagery archives, we discovered that Umbro used girls to promote their shirts in the World Cup year of 1966. We have used the wives and girlfriends of players who represent the Champion nations to model our new shirts. This is an irreverent, fun and Umbro way to showcase these great products, to celebrate global football culture in a World Cup year and to give a nod to our own history and heritage.
The Umbro World Champions Collection of football shirts and T-shirts is available from leading independents. RRP £70 for the Limited Edition box (including poster of all the crests signed by the artists, the shirt, story booklet about the inspiration behind each design and a crest pin badge), £50 for shirt, £25 for T-shirt. nike football shirt culture adidas puma umbro"
In all the years I've played, coached, and watched competitive football; I've never seen a sculpture of a global sports athlete like this one in Catalonia, Spain. There have been bronze sculptures of football legends like Maradona, Pele, Bobby Moore, Di Stefano, and Batistuta over the decades but never one made of chocolate!
Brooks Peck wrote:
"In Catalonia, children are given a chocolate cake called a "Mona" as a gift at Easter. And whichever kid got this one better like diabetes because that's what you'll get if you eat a lifesize chocolate Lionel Messi complete with Ballon d'Or. Given how tiny the real Leo is, this sucker looks like it has to be bigger than him, though. It certainly weighs more. At 115 kilos (253 lbs.), it could probably crush the little Argentine with its head alone."
Here is the head close-up of the dead-eye stare.
I wonder if people are going to eat the "Chocolate Messi"?
2009 FIFA World Player of the Year Argentina'sLionel Andres Messi - Best Footballer On Planet Earth Today!
The World's top players of the current generation like Cristiano
Ronaldo, Kaka, Rooney, Iniesta, Xavi, Higuain, Aguero, & Samuel are
all world-class; but 22 year old LIONEL MESSI is from a different
planet! He is closer to Maradona, Pele, and Di Stefano. For a few
years now, we have seen the emergence and now the reality of the young
MESSI becoming one of the all-time greatest players!
Foto del diario Clarin en Argentina - Modelos en Londres, Inglaterra invitan a los clientes a entrar a la zona 'Para
adultos' de la Gruta de Santa en los Grandes almacenes Westfield de
Londres. (EFE)
Yesterday was the 2nd leg and final of the Santander Copa Libertadores de America (club championship of all the Americas) at the giant Mineirao in Belo Horizonte, Brasil between last years Brazilian champion Cruzeiro Esporte clube and and Argentine champion Estudiantes de La Plata.
Last week In the 1st leg at La Plata, Argentina; the score was: Cruzeiro 0, Estudiantes 0.
Estudiantes, led by 34 year old master & world class footballer Juan Sebastian Veron and a team of 20 and 21 year old players, met Cruzeiro deep in hostile and enemy territory in the Mineirao.
By the looks of the video below, Barcelona FC of Spain (current European Champions League winner) is going to have a tougher time with the Copa Liberadores winner than it had with Manchester United in their match in late May. Barcelona will face the Copa Libertadores champion in December, 2009 for the World Club Championship.
Look at the dramatic outcome from Torneos Y Competencia/Fox Sports in Argentina of this excellent match:
Picture of master footballer Juan Sebastian "La Brujita" Veron.
The tall and powerful Argentine midfielder has played at some of the world's biggest and best clubs in his long career like Estudiantes (Argentina), Boca Juniors (Argentina), Lazio (Italy), Inter (Italy), Parma (Italy), Manchester United (England), and Chelsea (England). He returned back to his home town of La Plata, Argentina to finish his stellar career, and do a final push to be included among Argentina's 23 selected player for next years FIFA World Cup in South Africa.
(According to the world's top betting houses, Argentina and Brazil are co-favorite to win South Africa 2010, again.)
Due to his spectacular playing form currently, Juan Veron is right up there with Leo Messi (Argentina), Christiano Ronaldo (Portugal), Kaka (Brazil), Torres (Spain), and Riquelme (Argentina) as the best footballer in the world today. He is in that elite group, he is that good!
Nico Di Mattia from Cordoba, Argentina South America is Back! The worlds best speed photoshop artist released his latest creation, a portrait of super hot Hollywood star Megan Fox!
Here it is in digital time lapse painting work and some photorealism in a couple layers in Photoshop CS.
The much anticipated "Transformers" co-starring 23 year old Megan Fox. Music soundtrack is from Transformers by Steve Jablonsky.
What a match it was last night in Rome, Italy - F.C. Barcelona vs Manchester United. Barca is now champion of all Europe and 21 year old Argentine Leo Messi is the best player in the world today.
But look at this.....
Just like his predecessor Argentina's Diego Maradona, the best player in world football history, Lionel Messi was born to play football. After viewing these incredible images from Barca TV, it is very clear that that Messi was a footballing child prodigy.
Here are the images of him at a child's league match in Rosario, Argentina in 1993 when is was only 5 years!
Look at him, the cute little boy running the other kids crazy. The ball is bigger than him - Incredible!
What skill...What speed...What body & mental knowledge of field space and timing - the kid looks for the open space!!
"Que Picardia"!!!
Football Art - Leo Messi
A portrait of the world's best in 2008: Xavi & Torres of Spain, Cristiano Ronaldo of Portugal, Messi of Argentina, and Kaka of Brazil. Obviously Messi is the shortest and smallest of this elite group, but he is hands down a GIANT over each one of them on the pitch.
Here is a super sexy pictures of the various Miss Reef competition in South America over the last two years. Images were taken at the beaches of Peru, Chile, Argentina, and Brazil. With a few exceptions, all of the Miss Reef contestants were wearing their national colors - Peru (white & red strip tops), Chile (red tops), Argentina (white & sky blue strip tops), and Brazil (green & yellow tangas/thongs).
The Verano 2009 Reef International Surfing championship will start shortly in South America.
Miss Reef Peru 2005 winner
Miss Reef Peru 2006 contestants
Miss Reef Argentina 2007 contestants
Miss Reef Argentina 2008 contestant
Miss Reef Chile 2008 contestant
According to Google, the most popular and famous Miss Reef champion of them all is the 24 year old professional bikini and lingerie model Tilsa from Lima, Peru. This fun loving and very cheerful Peruvian beauty is the 2005 & 2008 Miss Peru Playboy TV, 2007 Miss Reef Peru, and 2008 Miss Reef International champion.
The girl has "attributes" and a SPECTACULAR BODY that has no rival - she wins practically every bikini contest she enters in all of Latin America, from Mexico down to Chile.
A few recent pictures of La Peruana Tilsa:
Miss Reef International Verano 2008 champion in Nov '07 - Peruvian bikini model Tilsa (middle).
Que Buen Lomo - What a good Lomo! It show beats a regular and plain "Plato de Carne Asado" that is served in most Latin/Mexican restaurants in the U.S. (Hey, I love Plato de Carne Asado but it pales in comparison to the delicious Lomo Saltado Peruano).
Here is the famous Peruvian dish "Lomo Saltado"being prepared at the Peruvian restaurant "El Rincon de Chabuca" in Miami Beach Florida. Peruvian Salsa music in the background.
"Preparacion de un Lomo Saltado en el restaurante El Rincon de Chabuca en Miami Beach, Florida."
Lomo is very easy to prepare, with the correct Peruvian ingredients & the right type of kitchen (you can't cook it correctly with American style residential kitchens). It is 100% Peruvian cuisine! In Argentina, the beef capital of the world, the locals will kill you to get a plate of Peruvian Lomo Saltado to eat!
Something about the style - Peruvian Lomo Saltado! "Algo Por El Estilo - Lomo Saltado Peruano. Una comida muy facil de hacer, 100 % peruana, pero que mata a los argentinos."
Peruvian Cuisine is currently the rage in the land of beautiful football, steak & beef, tango, and hot guachas - Argentina.
Picture of the Peruvian Lomo Saltado.
The Peruvian Lomo Saltado is a dish that is part stir-fry (originally inspired by Criollos, Peruvians of Spanish heritage and later by the Chinese); as there are 1,000s of Chinese restaurants called "chifas" in Peru thanks to a large population of Asian immigrants. It is not Andean cuisine, but Limeno Criollo from the capital Lima, Peru.
At its most basic, Lomo Saltado is cuts of beef stir-fried with vegetables like onions, peppers, and tomatoes, served with rice and french fries and intended to all be mixed together. In the hands of Peruvian Celebrity TV chef Gaston, it is a revelation. The beef is perfectly textured, the vegetables still firm but well roasted, the rice (mixed with huge kernels of corn) needs no accompaniment (although it mixed great with the sauce from the meat), and the "fries" made from native yellow potatoes taste as though butter had been pressure-injected into the soft flesh beneath the paper-thin skin crisp from frying. There is huge difference in taste and texture from eating Lomo Saltado in Peru vs eating it outside of Peru. Lomo Saltado is very deliciouss to eat at some of the fine Peruvian restaurants in the U.S., but in Peru - Lomo Saltado is unbelievable!
