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Date with Del Piero... Beckham for dessert.
Byline: Dhiman Chattopadhyay
Cricket is played round-the-year and Grand Slam tennis, every two months. Yet what is it about World Cup Football that drives even women - from offices and kitchens - to cheer their favourite hunks for 90 minutes?
And why do they find footballers sexy. Here's why soccer's pin-up boys never fail to score:
It doesn't drag on for the better part of the day (or night). It doesn't even bore you with 3 hours of non-stop slamming balls from one side of the court to another.
Its passionate, its colourful, it lasts long enough to excite even the uninitiated and yet is over in time to ensure other dates with destiny are kept. 22 good looking men flexing muscles, crying, laughing, hugging. Ummmm muscles and men. No wonder women love football and footballers.
For a sporting event that comes only once in four years, the World Cup sure has more than its fair share of pin up boys.
Cricket is a religion in India and even Tennis stars like Agassi, Sampras, Hewitt, Kournikova are heartthrobs. No doubts there. Yet even as ESPN and Star Sports remain off the air in Kolkata for over a week, blanking out Wimbledon and India-England one day cricket matches - do we hear roars in anger?
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