The ayes have it: survey reveals the best and worst in football

Jul 8, 2010 17:31 GMT  ·  By
Wayne Rooney is voted ugliest football player on the face of the planet in recent poll
   Wayne Rooney is voted ugliest football player on the face of the planet in recent poll

It’s been said before and we’ll say it again without running the risk of redundancy: people love charts and lists. Ever since one can remember, there have always been lists with the best-looking in a particular field, or the worst-dressed at a particular party or the hottest man/woman of the year. The World Cup is no exception, with over 200,000 people voting Wayne Rooney of the England team voted the least attractive player.

BeautifulPeople.com, a dating website where registration and admission are dependent almost entirely on one’s good looks, organized a survey on which are the hottest and the least attractive football players we’ve seen this year, at the World Cup. While it came as little surprise that David Villa or Fernando Torres made the cut in the most attractive players list, it was quite a shock to learn that England ranked second as the least attractive team, The Telegraph says.

“The least attractive teams were deemed to be England, Switzerland, Australia, Serbia, North Korea and Algeria. The most beautiful teams were Spain, Italy, Brazil, France, Denmark and the USA. Each player was assessed using a rating system by members of the dating site Beautifulpeople.com. According to the survey, in which 200,000 people cast their vote, Fabio Cannavaro, from the Italian team, is the most beautiful player in the World Cup. He is followed by Fernando Torres and David Villa, both from Spain,” the British publication says.

According to Greg Hodge, managing director of the website running the poll, the England team confirms that the WAGs (wife and girlfriends) are not looking only for good looks in a man. It’s a known fact that the British media tends to make of any woman dating or marrying a more prominent football player a bona fide celebrity (a phenomenon known as “WAG culture”) but, as Hodge puts it, these women are not necessarily looking for handsome men on whose arm to dangle. What they have in their bank accounts may weigh more heavily in the balance.

“Collectively, the worst looking team is Algeria. The term ‘trophy head’ could have been coined for most of their team. England follows close behind, with the most unattractive player on the planet, Wayne Rooney. The England team do have very beautiful wives and girlfriends, but this is surely due to their bank accounts which certainly makes them a lot more attractive,” Hodge says. Goalkeeper David James is the only one who was considered attractive enough to be let in the beautiful players list, albeit only at number 11.

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