Kevin Keegan's dodgy leather jacket, David Beckham's tight pants and Kaka's bum: Sports stars turned models
Published 12:48 04/11/08 By By Chris Wilson
Sunderland's Premier League stars swapped their silky shorts for bowler hats, dickie bows and three-piece suits last night as they took to the catwalk to raise money for the club's charity SAFC Foundation.
While Djibril Cisse looked more comfortable on the catwalk than he does on the pitch, he's not the first sports star to smile for the cameras. Here are some other sportsmen who've strutted their stuff.
Kevin Keegan was snapped doing a spot of modelling in aid of Newcastle keeper Shay Given's cancer charity earlier this year.
West Ham winger Freddie Ljungberg wasn't shot-shy during his time at Arsenal, getting his kit off to model Calvin Klein undies. Check out some stills from his CK shoots HERE , or watch Fred juggling a ball wearing only his pants below.
French heartthrob David Ginola , meanwhile, will always be remembered as much for his cheesy adverts for L'Oreal as he will for his stints at Newcastle and Spurs. The smooth Anglophile waved his hair in front of the cameras and uttered the immortal phrase 'because I'm worth it' back in the 1990s, but sadly all video evidence has been erased.
Spanish tennis star Rafael Nadal 's L'Oreal ads, however, haven't. Check out his manly commercial below. Even the Spanish voiceover sounds macho.
A piece about catwalking footballers wouldn't be complete without a nod to footballing clothes rail David Beckham . Pants are Dave's thing at the moment (maybe he's jealous of the attention Freddie Ljungberg was getting), so watch him here jiggling his bits for Emporio Armani.
Other footballers to dabble in modelling in recent years include Cristiano Ronaldo who hawks Pepe Jeans, Kaká whose face (and arse) is all over Armani Jeans' adverts, and amazingly given his goofy looks, Rio Ferdinand who takes cash off Ben Sherman to model their shirts.
Finally, and somewhat bizarrely given the commercial partnerships cricket usually attracts, the English & Wales Cricket Board signed a deal with Hugo Boss last year to become the England cricket team's official grooming partner. Check out the terrible publicity shot starring Freddie Flintoff, Michael Vaughan, Matthew Hoggard, Andrew Strauss and Kevin Pietersen
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