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Strip When You're Winning
Though the rite's origin is shrouded in mystery, soccer players often celebrate after scoring a goal by pulling their jerseys over their heads and darting about the pitch like two-year-olds on sugar jags. Some remove their tops entirely, as Brandi Chastain did following her game-winner for the U.S. at the 1999 Women's World Cup. The striptease stakes have been raised: Polish national team members Radoslaw Kaluzny, Tomasz Waldoch, Marcin and Michal Zewlakow, Bartek Karwan and Tomasz Hajto went Full Monty for the Polish edition of Cosmopolitan magazine. Under the headline "The Naked Truth about Polish Soccer," this month's issue carries an eight-page spread of the buff players, with towels and footballs standing in for fig leaves. The women's magazine urges readers to "become a football fan . . . in order to feast your eyes on superb, athletic, virile bodies." Should players start dropping their shorts after every goal, we fear attendance will, in fact, ultimately suffer. |
