Soccer players have some of the highest profiles in professional sports. Not only are they worth millions of dollars, but they are also high earners that live the high life to go with their immense wealth. Still, no high life is complete without a good woman on your arm, so it’s no surprise that these athletes have such beautiful wives and girlfriends.

Today, we will dive into some of the most talked-about couples in the ever-exciting world of soccer. Get ready because you’re about to lay your eyes upon the most gorgeous wives and girlfriends (WAGs) to have snagged the finest players on this side of the field!

Gianluigi Buffon & Ilaria D’Amico

Gianluigi Buffon is not only considered one of the best goalkeepers to play the game. With his smoldering rugged looks, he is also considered one of the best-looking. His football exploits include winning several Italian championships and the 2006 Fifa World Cup.

His looks got him his current wife, Ilaria D’Amico. The couple met in 2014 after Buffon left his first wife, Alena Šeredová. D’Amico appears to suit Buffon’s taste since she is a sports TV presenter specializing in soccer punditry. Together, they have one child and have been engaged since 2017.

Wesley Sneijder & Yolanthe Cabau

In June 2010, Wesley Sneijder and his Dutch teammates lost to Spain in the World Cup final held in South Africa, yet he didn’t have time to be glum about it. Why? Because six days later, he was set to marry his then-girlfriend of one year, Yolanthe Cabau.

Cabau is a Spanish model, actress, and TV host who has had roles in Dutch films like Snowfever and Costa!. Dutch FHM also voted her the Sexiest Dutch Woman in 2006, 2007, and 2009. She and Wesley have a son named Miguel. Meanwhile, Sneijder has retired and currently works as a coach for FC Utrecht in the Netherlands.

Thomas Vermaelen & Polly Parsons

Belgian defender Thomas Vermaelen had his ups and downs in English football. He got named club captain at Arsenal but found it hard to cement a place in the team the same season he became captain. One major positive that came from his time in England, though, was meeting his girlfriend.

That woman is a glamour model and TV personality named Polly Parsons. She is best known for presenting the show Fun Song Factory and her roles in shows like Disastrous and Genie in the House. Vermaelen, who currently plays for Belgian team Vissel Kobe, has been dating Parsons since 2012.

Alberto Aquilani & Michela Quattrociocche

Alberto Aquilani was one of the rising stars of Italian football in the early 2010s. The player dubbed as Il Principino or The Little Prince was pivotal to Serie A club Roma. However, things went awry for Aquilani after a shortlived and injury-plagued spell at English club Liverpool.

While his career never reached its absolute potential heights, he still managed to play for Italian giants Juventus and Milan. During those moments, he married Italian actress Michela Quattrociocche, a former model who became famous for her role in the Italian film Scusa ma ti chiamo amore. They have two children together, but in May 2020, they announced their separation.

Alessandro Matri & Federica Nargi

Alessandro Matri has many things going for him, being a talented striker who has played for some of the biggest teams in Italy’s Serie A, including Juventus, Milan, and Fiorentina. He is also engaged to a stunning Italian lady named Federica Nargi, mother of his two children.

Nargi is a prolific model and former pageant queen that won the 1st prize for Miss Roma and the Miss Cotonella national title in 2007. She also went on to finish 11th in the Miss Italia pageant. Nargi then moved into modeling and makes television appearances as well. As for Matri, he announced his retirement from professional soccer in May 2020.

David De Gea & Edurne García Almagro

Despite David De Gea’s move to Manchester United in 2011, he and his wife Edurne García Almagro still maintained a healthy long-distance relationship. She opted to stay in Madrid instead of moving with him to England to build her career as a TV presenter.

On top of being a television presenter, Almagro is also a songstress and actress. She’s currently a judge on both Spain’s Got Talent and the recently started Spanish Idol Kids. She also participated in the 2015 Eurovision song contest, where she finished 22nd with the song titled Amanecer.

Peter Crouch & Abigail Clancy

Peter Crouch isn’t known for his looks, so he shocked the world by getting married to model and TV personality Abigail Clancy. Clancy was smitten, though, as she even says that as soon as she saw him, she knew he was the one for her.

Clancy was the runner-up in the second season of Britain’s Next Top Model, and that gave her the springboard to fame and fortune. She has also won the 2013 edition of Strictly Come Dancing with Aljaz Skorjanec as her dance partner. Clancy has presented Britain’s Next Top Model since 2015.

Javi García & Elena Gómez

While Javi García never made the impact he would have liked at Real Madrid, he still managed to carve himself a path through some great teams. Benfica and English Premier League club Manchester City are just two of them. In August 2020, he signed a contract to play for the Portuguese club Boavista.

Another contract he signed was to marry the Spanish showstopper named Elena Gómez. She was widely regarded as one of Spain’s best gymnasts but got forced to retire after a pile-up of injuries prevented her from reaching optimal performance levels. She met García in 2009, and the couple eventually tied the knot in 2015.

Tom Cleverley & Georgina Dorsett

Tom Cleverley had made a stellar start to his top-flight career at Manchester United. He made two pivotal substitute appearances during the 2011/2012 pre-season tour, helping United beat both Barcelona and Manchester City. But just a few games into that season, he suffered an injury that curtailed his promising career.

Luckily it was also in the period that he started dating the TV personality Georgina Dorsett. Dorsett gained fame by starring in the reality show The Only Way Is Essex. They eventually got married in a rather extravagant ceremony in 2015 at a five-star London hotel called Claridge’s. Cleverley currently plays for Watford FC.

Chris Smalling & Sam Cooke

Chris Smalling’s career is a real rags to riches story. In two years, the center back went from Maidstone United in the non-league conference in 2008 to the heady heights of one of the world’s biggest clubs, Manchester United, in 2010.

While winning the Premier League and FA Cup among a host of trophies, Smalling also dated the former Page 3 model Sam Cooke. Cooke has also been featured in magazines such as FHM, Maxim, Loaded, and Nuts. She is a vegan and influenced her husband, who she married in 2017, towards the lifestyle. Today, Smalling is part of AS Roma in Serie A.

Edin Džeko & Amra Silajdžic

Edin Džeko will go down in Manchester City history as the player who got their equalizer in a title-deciding match against Queens Park Rangers. He is also famous for scoring four goals for Manchester City in one game against Tottenham Hotspurs in that same season.

Ensuring all good things come in threes, Džeko also started dating Bosnian model and actress Amra Silajdžic that season. Silajdžic gained fame at the age of 16 when she won the Metropolitan Top Model competition in France, which got her a contract with the modeling agency Elite Model. She has starred in music videos for Enrique Iglesias, Taio Cruz, and Blake Shelton.

Sergio Ramos & Pilar Rubio

Becoming a Real Madrid legend is no mean feat considering the things the club has achieved in history. Nonetheless, Sergio Ramos can actually be considered a Real Madrid legend. As captain of the club, he oversaw them winning three consecutive Champions League trophies, becoming the first captain to accomplish such an achievement.

Pilar Rubio, Ramos’s spouse, must be one proud wife! However, she is also well known and revered in her own field as a reporter and presenter. She has hosted several popular Spanish shows and is also the star of the series Piratas. Rubio and Ramos got married in 2019.

Steven Gerrard & Alexandra Curran

Steven Gerrard is widely regarded as one of the best players that have never won an English Premier League title. But the Liverpool legend was still pivotal in the club’s other successes, including a UEFA Champions League win and an FA Cup Final win.
Gerrard and his wife Alexandra Curran got married in 2007 and have four children together. Curran is a former model and a fashionista who writes a fashion column for the Daily Mirror newspaper. The Times dubbed her as an ‘uber WAG,’ and she used this profile to release her top-seller fragrance she, Alex.

Kevin-Prince Boateng & Melissa Satta

Kevin-Prince Boateng is best known for his spells at Portsmouth in the English Premier League and AC Milan, where he won the Italian Championship and the Italian Cup. It was also while he was in Milan that he met his now-wife Italian model Melissa Satta.

Satta is an Italian TV presenter who worked as a showgirl on an Italian satire called Striscia la Notizia. She has also been featured in the Sports Illustrated Swimwear Edition, wearing a body painting of the Italian soccer jersey. Boateng and Satta started dating in 2011 and got married in 2017. Boateng is currently playing for Serie B team A.C. Monza.

Christian Wilhelmsson & Oksana Andersson

Christian Wilhelmsson’s football career took him to 13 clubs in countries such as England, Belgium, Italy, France, Saudi Arabia, and America. Despite playing in all of those countries, the woman he married doesn’t come from any of them.

Instead, he married a Russian born Swedish model, which technically means she is from a country he’s played in since he started his career in Sweden. The model in question is Oksana Andersson, who is most known for being in the Swedish version of Paradise Hotel. The couple tied the knot in a quick wedding in Las Vegas and currently has two children.

Bastian Schweinsteiger & Ana Ivanovic

Bastian Schweinsteiger is a German legend and was a vital member of the national team that won the World Cup in 2014. He is also a Champions League winner and Bundesliga dominator with German Club Bayern Munich. Besides all these, he won the English FA Cup with Manchester United as well.

The Serbian professional tennis player Ana Ivanovic is Schweinsteiger’s wife. When they started seeing each other, Ivanovic had already won her first and only tennis major, the French Open. She is still consistent on the court, while Schweinsteiger announced his retirement from professional football in 2019. The announcement came after finishing his career with the Chicago Fire in America.

Giuliano Giannichedda & Federica Ridolfi

Giuliano Giannichedda is an Italian soccer manager currently managing within Serie C in the Italian football tiers. He was known for his aggressive style of play at clubs like Udinese and Lazio but wasn’t renowned for scoring. Although he did score big off the field…

Giannichedda is married to Italian TV Host and dancer Federica Ridolfi, daughter of Italian actor Gianni Ridolfi. She is best known for co-hosting the show Quelli che… il Calcio, a live TV show that mixes music with comedy while announcing goals scored in Serie A during the broadcast. They are currently engaged, but no wedding plans are in sight yet.

Sebastian Boenisch & Tatjana Batinić

Sebastian Boenisch and his wife Tatjana Batinić go way back to when he was having a career upturn at German club Werder Bremen. They met in 2009 and began dating almost immediately, with Polish international Boenisch making a great impression at Bremen as a left-back.

Batinić is a former Miss Austria pageant winner who seems to have a thing for soccer players, previously dating Croatia national team’s Ivan Rakitić. It seems she’s finally found her match, though, since she and Boenisch got married in 2013. They currently have one child together, and Sebastian is presently playing for Austrian club Wiener Neustadt.

Júlio César & Susana Werner 

Júlio César was the goalkeeper for the dominant Inter Milan side that won several consecutive Italian championships and the 2009/2010 UEFA Champions League. He was also the keeper that conceded seven goals in a World Cup match in 2014.

At least he got to go home to the comfort of his gorgeous wife, Susana Werner, a model and actress. Werner has a history of dating footballers since she dated the legendary Brazilian striker Ronaldo between 1997 and 1999. She and César got married in 2002 and have two children together.

Sergio Sánchez Ortega & Elisabeth Reyes 

Sergio Sánchez Ortega is a versatile player who played 166 games in the Spanish La Liga for various clubs, including Espanyol, Racing de Santander, Málaga, and Sevilla, with whom he won a Copa Del Rey. But while he has played for many clubs, he has been a one-woman man.

Ortega married Miss Spain 2006, Elisabeth Reyes, in 2014 and hasn’t been able to tear himself away from his lady love since. Reyes is no stranger to soccer players though and has dated Real Madrid’s Sergio Ramos and Alexis Delgado. Since they’ve been together, Ortega has been at four clubs. He was recently released by his latest one, Cádiz.

Graziano Pelle & Viktoria Varga

Graziano Pelle is best known for his two seasons in the English Premier League for Southampton, where he scored a total of 30 goals in 68 appearances before moving to Chinese club Shandong Luneng. He also had a notable spell at Dutch club Feyenoord.

While he has become a prolific scorer on the field, he has done the same off it by marrying Hungarian model Viktoria Varga. She followed him to China, and while he has been banging in the goals, she has been landing numerous modeling gigs for magazines and building her following on Instagram, which now has around 489,000 followers.

Iker Casillas & Sara Carbonero Arévalo

When Iker Casillas started his professional career, he was still riding a bicycle to training. But in that same season, he also became a European champion. Today, he is a Spain and Real Madrid legend, winning three UEFA Champions League titles, five La Liga titles, a European Championship, and a World Cup.

He also won off the field, with beautiful Spanish sports journalist Sara Carbonero Arévalo. The couple started dating in 2009 and tied the knot in March 2016. Casillas, meanwhile, announced his intention to run for the presidency of the Spanish Football Federation.

Riyad Mahrez & Rita Johal

Riyad Mahrez shot to fame during the unprecedented Premier League title-winning season for the unfancied club Leicester City. Since then, he has made a big-money move to Manchester City, where he won another English title. It was during his successful period at Leicester that he married Rita Johal.

Johal has been making a name for herself as a model, and Instagram influencer with about 524,000 followers on the platform. The couple has a daughter together, but it has since been confirmed that they have split, and Mahrez is currently dating fashion model Taylor Ward. In September 2020, Mahrez tested positive for COVID-19.

Mikel Arteta & Lorena Bernal

Mikel Arteta has successfully transitioned from being a player to a coach. After all, he has played under and worked with coaches that include David Moyes, Arsene Wenger, and Pep Guardiola. He has since been applying what he learned from them at the English Premier League team Arsenal.

He has been with Argentine model Lorena Bernal since his playing days both for Everton and Arsenal, and together they have three children. Bernal famously won the Miss Spain pageant at 17 but couldn’t go on to the Miss World pageant because of her age. She moved into acting and has had roles in American shows like Chuck and CSI Miami.

Tammy Abraham & Leah Monroe

Tammy Abraham is a young and energetic player already showing the potential he was touted as having since breaking into the Chelsea lineup. The high profile athlete with a notable endorsement with Nike has even initiated a one-year contract extension with Chelsea in 2020.

While he is still unmarried, he does have a glamorous girlfriend to go with his glamorous soccer lifestyle in Leah Monroe. He has been dating the lifestyle vlogger Leah Monroe for just over four years now. Monroe is a social media influencer and model best known for sharing her beauty tips via her YouTube channel.

Granit Xhaka & Leonita Lekaj

Granit Xhaka, one of the world’s most formidable players, is the Swiss national team captain. He is also a pivotal player for Arsenal in the English Premier League. He most recently won the FA Cup with the team, who he captained at one point, but has since relinquished that position.

While his on-field exploits are apparent for all to see, his off-field life remains pretty private. Also, very little is known about his wife, Leonita Lekaj. They started dating in 2015 when Xhaka stilled played in Germany for Borussia Mönchengladbach. They got married two years later and had one child, a daughter born in 2019.

Mesut Özil & Amine Gülşe

Mesut Özil has been having a rough time lately, as he’s been frozen out of the Arsenal squad by manager Mikel Arteta. But there’s no denying his pedigree as a soccer player who burst onto the scene at the 2010 World Cup, winning it with his country in 2014.

While things haven’t been looking great for him on the playing front, he does have Turkish and Swedish actress and model Amine Gülşe keeping him happy at home. The former Miss Turkey pageant winner and the soccer player started dating in 2017 and got married two years later. Their first child was born in March 2020.

Mohamed Salah & Magi Salah

Liverpool’s prolific forward, Mohamed Salah, needs no introduction. This is in no small part thanks to his exploits on the pitch with his club, where he was a crucial part of the team that won the UEFA Champions League and the Premier League in consecutive seasons in recent years.

Not much is known about his wife Magi Salah, but it’s reported that they’ve known each other since their youth, having attended the same elementary school. She also has a twin sister, and together they earned a bachelor’s degree from Alexandria’s Faculty of Commerce. The couple got married in 2013 and has two children, the second one born in 2020.

Neymar & Natalia Barulich

Regarded as one of the world’s best players, Neymar has also had his fair share of relationships to go with his high profile. The most notable of his lovers is Brazilian actress Bruna Marquezine, best known for her role in Brazilian telenovela Women In Love.

However, that relationship was marred by breakups, and Neymar has already moved on with model Natalia Barulich. Although this relationship has been kept under wraps, it appears official since Barulich shared a post on Instagram, praising him for his good heart. Oh, and she also called him babe in the post!

Paulo Dybala & Oriana Sabatini

Considered one of the most talented forwards globally, Paulo Dybala has been a critical cog in the Juventus team that has dominated Italian football over the past few years. Even with the mighty Cristiano Ronaldo signing for the club, he has still retained his importance.

This is why it was shocking when Dybala became one of the first players to be diagnosed with COVID-19. His girlfriend, Oriana Sabatini, also tested positive. The lovers who met in 2017 are quarantining together and are now both returning to full health. Sabatini is a model, singer, and actress famous for her roles in the Cris Morena series, playing the character of Azul Medina.

Raheem Sterling & Paige Milian

Raheem Sterling has had a tumultuous career, to say the least. Touted as one of England’s brightest soccer talents, he has also had his run-ins with the law and controversies with fans. But he is still a winner who has help Manchester City to two Premier League titles and The FA Cup.

Sterling is engaged to Paige Milian, a girl he met working in a sports store while he was a young player at Queens Park Rangers. They split when he moved to Liverpool but got back together when he signed for Manchester City. They have one child together while Sterling has another from a different relationship.

Mamadou Sakho and Majda Sakho

Mamadou Sakho is one of the most reliable defenders in the Premier League, having played for both Liverpool and Crystal Palace while also playing for Paris Saint-Germain in France and winning over 25 caps for the French National Team. One other thing he is noted for is his marriage to social media personality Majda.

The Instagram influencer has around 147,000 followers on the platform she gained by sharing fashion shots and family shots of her, Mamadou, and their three children. Sakho is a practicing Muslim, and during his time at Liverpool, he did community service by teaching French to youth in the city.

Daley Blind & Candy Rae Fleur

As unassuming as Daley Blind is, he is a widely successful player. Renowned for his intelligence and ball distribution, Blind has been part of the successful Ajax team that won four Eredivisie titles in a row, and a Manchester United team that won the FA Cup, League Cup, and UEFA Europa League.

But just as unassuming as he is, so is his relationship with his wife, Candy Rae Fleur. He proposed to her in South of France while still a Manchester United player, and he and the dancer got married in June 2019. They have one child together and announced in October 2020 that they are expecting another baby.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic & Helena Seger

Zlatan Ibrahimovic may be all tough guy “I’m a lion” to his football fans, but at home, he is a loving partner and father to his long-time girlfriend, Helena Seger, and their two sons, Maximilian and Vincent. She is a Swedish businesswoman who has a qualification in economics, pattern design, and fabric embroidery.

Ibrahimovic continues to prove he can run at the very top of the game even at 39 years old. Meanwhile, Helena holds down the fort on their joint real estate business dealings. Ibrahimovic recently returned to one of his early clubs, AC Milan, and is banging in the goals in Serie A.

Cristiano Ronaldo & Georgina Rodriguez

Here is a player that needs no introduction: Cristiano Ronaldo, widely regarded as one of the greatest players in soccer history. His trophy haul, both personally and collectively, tells the story of a player who has been a dominant force in the field.

His personal life’s success is about as notable as his professional success, with stunning model Georgina Rodriguez on his arm. The couple met when they were at the same Dolce & Gabbana launch and started dating in 2016. She got pregnant with his fourth child and is his only publicly known baby mama, with the other children’s mothers unknown.

Roberto Firmino & Larissa Pereira

The man with the brightest smile in football, Roberto Firmino, has been a key to the current Liverpool team’s success. He has made a telling contribution to the club, winning the UEFA Champions League and English Premier League.

But before he was even at Liverpool, Firmino met his stunning wife Larissa Pereira at a nightclub in 2013. He and the model started dating a year after that meeting and tied the knot in a massive ceremony in Brazil in 2017. Firmino’s best men were Brazilian teammates Lucas Leiva, Philippe Coutinho, Albert Moreno, and Alan Souza. He and Pereira have two children together.

Lionel Messi & Antonella Roccuzzo

Like he has remained with the same club for his entire career, Lionel Messi has also been a one-woman man. He’s been in a relationship with his wife Antonella Roccuzzo since 2008. However, his infatuation with Antonella goes way beyond his time with Barcelona.

They first met when Messi was just five years old as she was his best friend’s cousin. They dated for nearly a decade before getting married in 2017. However, they’ve already built a family before marriage, with their two kids. Messi and Roccuzzo have since added a third child to the family in 2018.

David Beckham & Victoria Beckham

Collectively known as Posh and Becks by the British media, David Beckham and his wife Victoria are arguably the lovebirds that started the WAGS trend. They gained fame as a power couple with David becoming a style icon in soccer and Victoria playing the stylish member of the British pop group Spice Girls.

As a member of one of the best-selling female music groups in history, Victoria was known as Posh Spice. She also had a short solo career, with the song Out Of Your Mind reaching Top 10 in the UK charts. Victoria is also a fashion designer and TV personality currently worth $450 million.

Mario Götze & Ann-Kathrin Brömmel

Until Germany wins in another World Cup, Mario Götze will go down as the man who won the country its last World Cup trophy with his goal in the finals against Argentina. He was also a crucial part of the Borussia Dortmund team that won two Bundesliga titles and a German Cup. Götze also played for a Bayern Munich team that won three Bundesliga titles in a row.

Götze has been dating Ann-Kathrin Brömmel, a lingerie model, since July 2012. They eventually got married in May 2019 and had their first child in 2020. The 28-year-old athlete is currently playing for the Dutch Eredivisie side PSV Eindhoven.

Gerard Piqué & Shakira

Gerard Piqué and Shakira have a lot in common. Pique has won the Uefa Champions League for two different clubs. Shakira has dominated the music charts in two different languages (English and Spanish). The couple with two kids also shares the same birth date.

Both made waves at the 2010 soccer world cup: Shakira with the theme song Waka Waka (This Time for Africa), and Piqué by winning the whole tournament with Spain. But despite being together since 2010, they’ve never been married. Shakira kept busy in 2020, performing at the Superbowl half time show with Jennifer Lopez and featuring in the Black Eyed Peas song Girl Like Me.