Now that squads have been announced, we can look more closely into the hotness of the individual teams. I mean, that’s what we’re here for, right? For each team, I’ll talk a bit about the squad, then highlight ten hotties.
Today: SOUTH KOREA!
Traditionally one of the strongest Asian teams in the tournament, South Korea have had a rough World Cup this year. That doesn’t mean we can’t lift up their spirits by appreciating their hotness.
Team Nickname: Taegeuk Jeonsa Fan Chant: Dae-han-min-guk! (clap clap clap clap clap)
Goalkeepers:
Kim Seung-gyu, #1 (home club: Vissel Kobe)
Jo Hyeon-woo, #23 (home club: Daegu FC)
Kim Jin-hyeon, #21 (home club: Cerezo Osaka)
A classic man you can take home to mama.
Defenders:
Jung Seung-hyun, #3 (home club: Sagan Tosu)
Yun Yong-sun, #5 (home club: Seongnam FC)
Park Joo-ho, #6 (home club: Ulsan Hyundai)
Kim Min-woo, #12 (home club: Sangju Sangmu)
Hong Chul, #14 (home club: Sangju Sangmu)
Kim Young-gwon, #19 (home club: Guangzhou Evergrande)
Lee Yong, #2 (home club: Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors)
Mmm hmm.
Oh Ban-suk, #4 (home club: Jeju United)
Now I’m thirsty
Jang Hyun-soo, #20 (home club: FC Tokyo)
I wish his shirt was just a little shorter in that second pic.
Go Yo-han, #22 (home club: FC Seoul)
He looks good when he’s running, which is insane.
Midfielders:
Ju Se-jong, #8 (home club: Asan Mugunghwa FC)
Jung Woo-young, #15 (home club: Vissel Kobe)
Lee Jae-sung, #17 (home club: Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors)
Moon Seon-min, #18 (home club: Incheon United)
Lee Seung-woo, #10 (home club: Hellas Verona)
Barcelona trained fashionista.
Koo Ja-cheol, #13 (home club: FC Augsburg)
Looks good in the suit, looks good under it.
Ki Sung-yueng, #16 (home club: Swansea City)
He looks like he should be a member of a K-Pop band
Forwards:
Hwang Hee-chan, #11 (home club: FC Red Bull Salzburg)
Son Heung-min, #7 (home club: Tottenham Hotspur)
As we sing at Tottenham, Here comes the Son!
Kim Shin-wook, #9 (home club: Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors)
Who is the 🔥HOTTEST🔥 team in the World Cup? It’s your chance to decide. We’ll do it like the World Cup, with group stages and brackets.
Each team will get a point for each like, reblog, reply, and message. The top two teams from each group will move on to the Knock Out Stages. In the unlikely event of a tie, I will exercise the tiny privilege this blog gives me as tiebreaker. The Group Stages end July 4th–TOMORROW NIGHT!
Remeber! If you have already liked and reblogged, earn your team more points by dropping a message in their favor! Or, better yet, get your friends to like and reblog!
If you get 5 friends to like and reblog a post, that’s 10 votes! As you can see below, that could completely change the fate of many groups!
Here are the current standings as of the fifth and penultimate night of the group stages. I’m being a bit more detailed to encourage some last-minute frenzy!
Now that most of the teams have been “introduced,” it’s your time to decide: who is the 🔥HOTTEST🔥 team in the World Cup? We’ll do it like the World Cup, with group stages and brackets.
Each team will get a point for each like, reblog, reply, and message. The top two teams from each group will move on to the Knock Out Stages. In the unlikely event of a tie, I will exercise the tiny privilege this blog gives me as tiebreaker.
As the Final Team intros come out in the next two days, I’ll update the list below.
CELEBRATE FIREWORKS OF A DIFFERENT KIND BY CHOOSING YOUR FAVORITES BY JULY 4TH. KNOCKOUTS WILL CONTINUE ALONG WITH THE WORLD CUP UNTIL THE FINAL ON 7/15!
Who is the 🔥HOTTEST🔥 team in the World Cup? It’s your chance to decide. We’ll do it like the World Cup, with group stages and brackets.
Each team will get a point for each like, reblog, reply, and message. The top two teams from each group will move on to the Knock Out Stages. In the unlikely event of a tie, I will exercise the tiny privilege this blog gives me as tiebreaker. The Group Stages end July 4th.
Remeber! If you have already liked and reblogged, earn your team more points by dropping a message in their favor! Or, better yet, get your friends to like and reblog!
HERE ARE THE CURRENT STANDINGS AS OF THE FOURTH EVENING OF THE GROUP STAGES:
Mexico consolidates its lead in hotness again after its heartbreaking exit. Germany looks a likely second place at this point. Is there an upset in the cards?
Who is the 🔥HOTTEST🔥 team in the World Cup? It’s your chance to decide. We’ll do it like the World Cup, with group stages and brackets.
Each team will get a point for each like, reblog, reply, and message. The top two teams from each group will move on to the Knock Out Stages. In the unlikely event of a tie, I will exercise the tiny privilege this blog gives me as tiebreaker. The Group Stages end July 4th.
Remeber! If you have already liked and reblogged, earn your team more points by dropping a message in their favor! Or, better yet, get your friends to like and reblog!
HERE ARE THE CURRENT STANDINGS AS OF THE EVENING OF THE THIRD EVENING OF THE GROUP STAGES:
Everyone in this group is now out of the “real” World Cup, but this might have been the hottest group in the Cup. And Iran and Spain seem to be keeping hold.
A group of death continues! The heartbroken Danes should find comfort here, and meanwhile France has pulled level with Peru! What will happen in the last two days?
Mexico is still on tip by quite a bit, but everyone else is picking up the chase! Will an interesting game versus Switzerland tomorrow up the Swedish chances?
Goodness, but there’s been some turnaround here. England has taken quite the lead, with Belgium far behind in second. Tunisia has a chance to pip second place yet…
Now that squads have been announced, we can look more closely into the hotness of the individual teams. I mean, that’s what we’re here for, right? For each team, I’ll talk a bit about the squad, then highlight ten hotties (trying to be attentive to many types of hotness), doing my best to split them evenly amongst the field.
Today: RUSSIA!
Russia had a rough Euro 2016 campaign, and, as hosts, qualified automatically for the World Cup. Their records in friendlies have shown improvement. They’ve lost a few key players due to injury, but they have a robust midfield. If Fyodor Smolov and youngster Alexandr Golovin can connect on the field, Russia have a chance of getting to the Round of 16.
Nickname: Sbornaya (the National Team) Chant: Vperyoood, Ross-Iya!
SQUAD
Goalkeepers
Igor Akinfeev, #1 (home club: CSKA Moscow)
Akinfeev is likely to be the primary goalkeeper for the tournament. He’s got a kind of Varsity Captain charm and looks a little like James Van Der Beek?
Vladimir Gabulov, #20 (home club: Club Brugge)
Andrey Lunev, #12, (home club: Zenit St Petersburg)
Defenders
Fedor Kudryashov, #13 (home club: Rubin Kazan)
Ilya Kutepov, #3 (home club: Spartak Moscow)
Andrey Semenov, #5 (home club: Akhmat Grozny)
Sergei Ignashevich, #4 (home club: CSKA Moscow)
Mario Fernandes, #2 (home club: CSKA Moscow)
Vladimir Granat, #14 (home club: Rubin Kazan)
One of the veterans on the team, Granat serves some Hot Dad realness. That chiseled jaw and those deep-set eyes give a little gravitas.
Igor Smolnikov, #23 (home club: Zenit St Petersburg)
Ice blue eyes and blonde hair, Smolnikov looks more stereotypically Scandinavian than Russian. Baby-faced at rest, a sweet smile, but intense when the time comes.
Midfielders
Yuri Gazinskiy, #8 (home club: Krasnodar
Yuri Zhirkov, #18 (home club: Zenit St. Petersburg)
Daler Kuzyaev, #7 (home club: Zenit St Petersburg)
Alan Dzagoev, #9 (home club: CSKA Moscow)
Anton Miranchuk, #16 (home club: Lokomotiv Moscow)
Alexsandr Golovin, #17 (home club: CSKA Moscow)
A lot of hopes rest on young Golovin’s shoulders, but he’s got that cocksure swagger that says he’s not too worried about it.
Aleksandr Erokhin, #21 (home club: Zenit St. Petersburg)
Floppy mop of brown hair, gentle brown eyes, and a lanky frame. The classic hot hipster soccer player.
Roman Zobnin, #11 (home club: Spartak Moscow)
Young and cocky, and with the pouty lips and a strong jawline of a model…Zobnin is a pleasure to watch on the field.
The younger brother of a pair of brothers on the team, he’s still working on his facial hair…but there’s a boyish charm in the fact he still finds such glee in the sport.
We’re in the Round of Sixteen. Here’s how this will go: I will be posting the FULL 23 MAN ROSTER for EACH TEAM and then YOU will 24 hours to reblog the post with your vote, or to send a message with your vote. The team with the most votes moves to the next round. To help neutrals choose, I’ll put number up against number - #1 against #1, #17 against #17…probably the most random/neutral way to compare our babes.
Even I’m getting involved in the voting this time – with my picks number by number (but don’t worry—my vote only counts as one): 3 points for the hotter guy, 1 point for tie. Without further ado:
Toughie. Both hot; so it’s a tie. URU 1 : 1 ESP
Another group of hotties, another tie. URU 2 : 2 ESP
As a football fan, and a defender, I love Godin. But Pique is way hotter. Advantage Spain. URU 2 : 5 ESP
Hmmm. Another tie. URU 3 : 6 ESP
Busquets is great, but I give an edge to Sanchez. URU 6 : 6 ESP
Ooh, the opposite of #2. Iniesta’s a legend, but Bentancur’s a hottie. URU 9 : 6 ESP
Something about Saul’s eyes gets me every time. URU 9 : 9 ESP
Ooh, Nandez is cute but Koke is FINE URU 9 : 12 ESP
I’ve got a big secret crush on Rodrigo. Suarez is fun. URU 9 : 15 ESP
Hmm…tie. URU 10 : 16 ESP
Lucas is cute on the field, but if you look close, his forehead is kinda funny? URU 13 : 16 ESP
Hair + face = Odriozola URU 13 : 19 ESP
No advantage either side here, two good guys. URU 14 : 20 ESP
Cesar is really cute. URU 14 : 23 ESP
Ramos and his stupid face. URU 14 : 26 ESP
Nacho is very handsome. URU 14 : 29 ESP
Even though I can’t with the hair, this one definitely goes to Laxalt. URU 17 : 29 ESP
Both cute! Tie! URU 18 : 30 ESP
Hmm, they both have their own special thing going in their own way. Tie. URU 19 : 31 ESP
Gotta give it to Asensio here. URU 19 : 34 ESP
Silva’s great but CAVANI URU 22 : 34 ESP
OOf, what a fight. Kiss and call it a tie? URU 23 : 35 ESP
Both handsome keepers. Tie. URU 24 : 36 ESP
Welp, while Uruguay has some intense standouts, on the whole I gotta give it to Spain. That’s where my vote goes. Where does yours go?
The official rosters were announced today…that means hotness research can begin in earnest! But hotness in footballers isn’t new. It’s been around a long time. To celebrate this slower news day, I’m going to take you on a journey through the World Cup of Hotness Hall of Fame. These hotties are classics, doing their best work before 1990.
Note: WCOH Hall of Famers must have played in World Cups. There’s lots of hotness to go around, and I have to narrow it down somehow.
Didi
Waldyr Pereria was better known as “Didi,” and played for Brazil in the 1954, 1958, and 1962 World Cups (Brazil won the last two). He was named the best player of the tournament in 1958. He played professionally from 1946-1966, for prestigious teams like Botafogo, Real Madrid, and Sao Paulo. Following his time as a player, he had a prestigious coaching career.
That smile, those cheekbones, that intense gaze…he’s like a fairy tale prince who also happens to be good at free kicks.
Jairzinho
Jair Ventura Filha was a member of the 1970 World-Cup winning Brazil team, and he also played on the 1966 and 1974 teams. A right-winger by trade, he could slot in to many attacking positions. He spent most of his professional career at the Brazilian team Botafogo.
Cheekbones for days, full lips, that bod. A bold sense of style. Are you kidding me?
Mario Kempes
Kempes was a member of the 1974, 1978, and 1982 Argentina squads. He’s best known as the leading the Cup-winning 78 squad from the front: he won the Golden Boot (scored the most goals in the tournament) and scored twice in the final. He played for many teams but is most closely associated with Rosario Central in Argentina and Valencia in Spain.
Long and lanky with similarly long and lanky hair, I feel like Kempes could be the hot frontman of that cool band you like right now and no one could tell the difference
Sándor Kocsis
The top goalscorer in the 1954 World Cup, this Hungarian played for the Budapest team Honvéd FC for seven years and for Barcelona for seven years. He is one of only two players in FIFA records with an average of more than one goal per game playing for his national team.
Get you a man who can serve both Andrew Garfield twink cuteness and be a hot dad at the same time and have the highest international goal per game ratio of all time. You deserve it.
Raymond Kopa
Kopa was a French striker who played professionally for Reims and Real Madrid. He was a member of the 1954 and third-place winning 1958 French squads. He won the 1958 Ballon d’Or (Footballer of the Year Award) and was the first football player to be awarded the France Légion d'honneur.
Look at this cutie! He’s so very French. And was apparently quite congenial. I found a bunch of pictures of him hanging with the rest of the guys on this list. Best wingman ever.
Pelé
Pelé’s full name is Edson Arantes do Nascimento, but he only needs Pelé. He is quite possibly the single greatest football player of all time, and was even considered Athlete of the Century (in
any
sport) by the International Olympic Committee. He was a member of four Brazil World Cup squads…and won three times–in 1958, 1962, and 1970. (They shockingly did not make it out of the group stages in 1966). He played over 1100 matches for Santos FC, and helped launch the first professional soccer league in the US when he played for the New York Cosmos.
Hotness is not particularly the thing Pelé is known for, but his smile makes me melt into an absolute puddle. I think he’s as beautiful a man as he is a footballer. And that’s saying something.
Luis Suárez Miramontes
An attacking midfielder, Luis Suárez has represented his home country Spain in three World Cups: 1962, 1966, and
1990
? Yes, after his professional career, which included long stints at both Barcelona and Inter Milan, Suárez began a successful coaching career. So, after a 24 year absence, he returned to the World Cup team as a coach for the 1990 Spain squad.
Who does this kid think he is, and how is he a 1950s soccer player and not the current star of Riverdale? Football is truly the gift that keeps on giving.
Lev Yashin You want swagger? How about the being the only goalkeeper ever to win the Ball d’Or? He was the goalkeeper for the USSR for four World Cups: 1958, 1962, 1966, and 1970. He’s considering one of the fathers of modern goalkeeping–being a leader by organizing the defense on the field, and rushing defenders rather than waiting between the sticks. He’s kept of 270 clean sheets and saved over 150 penalties in his career
Yashin might not be to all ya’ll’s tastes, but I can’t help but find him attractive. Sweaty and covered in mud, this face swaggers over after just having saved his zillionth penalty. Swoon.
We’re in the Round of Sixteen. Here’s how this will go: I will be posting the FULL 23 MAN ROSTER for EACH TEAM
Vote by sending me a message or reblogging/replying to the Round of Sixteen post with your choice!
This round, to mix things up, I’m getting involved. My vote only counts for 1, and for the ~content~ I’ll go man by man, scoring 1 point for the hotter guy, 0 points for tie. Without further ado the REAL World Cup final matchup in the Round of Sixteen here:
Livakovis is cute, but Lloris is BAE CRO 0:1 FRA
I like Pavard’s locks, but I think Vrsaljko takes it. CRO 1:1 FRA
Damn, too tough for me–two different, delicious tastes! CRO 1:1 FRA
Varane takes it for me. CRO 1:2 FRA
Oof. No wonder these teams are in the final. But slight edge to Corluka for me, despite Umtiti’s great grin. CRO 2:2 FRA
ARGH THESE ARE HARD. Tie. CRO 2:2 FRA
Hmm, Rakitic looks good here, but I think Griezmann takes it. CRO 2:3 FRA
I can’t choose. CRO 2:3 FRA
Damn, this is cruel. Kramaric is a cutie but Giroud. CRO 2:4 FRA
Two fine players, but I’d rather smooch Mbappe. CRO 2:5 FRA
Hmm, Brozovic takes this one. CRO 3:5 FRA
Jedvaj’s not really my type, but I think he’s a little cuter than the midfield maestro. CRO 4:5 FRA
Hmm…Matuidi! CRO 4:6 FRA
Damn, tie. CRO 4:6 FRA
Mandanda’s a legend, but I’d rather date Kalinic. CRO 5:6 FRA
Hmm…Rami for Memi. CRO 5:7 FRA
I think this one’s for Rebic. CRO 6:7 FRA
ARGH. Sidibe? CRO 6:8 FRA
Well these kids could be twins or something. Tie. CRO 6:8 FRA
Sorry Vida, I can’t with your hair. Plus, Lucas is way hot. CRO 6:9 FRA
Ooh, a toughie Two cuties. Tie. CRO 6:9 FRA
Two PSG keeps, but one of ‘em in the hottest in the biz. Vive le France CRO 6:10 FRA
