Another game lost, another girlfriend blamed

JOHANNESBERG - Behind every great athlete stands a woman - being blamed for everything he does wrong.

For the second time during this World Cup, a fetching young woman is being called out after her boyfriend loused things up on the field.

Spain is smarting badly after losing its first game to Switzerland 1-0 on Wednesday. Though they pressed for the whole match, Switzerland snuck in a goal during a slapstick goalmouth scrum involving ‘keeper Iker Casillas.

Now the Spanish media is piling on Sara Carbonero, Casillas’ TV announcer girlfriend.

Cameras caught Carbonero filming a segment behind the Spanish goal while Casillas warmed up in the pre-game. Though he presumably knows her well enough that he can manage to drive home without wrapping his car around a tree while she sits in the passenger seat, some Spanish fans are convinced that this fleeting glimpse of Carbonero put Casillas off his game.

After the match, Carbonero was asked by her own TV station whether she felt she was to blame.

“Can I destabilize the team?” she wondered. “I think it’s nonsense.”

Guelph’s Elizabeth Minett, the former girlfriend of English goalkeeper Robert Green, will share that sentiment. The British tabs have speculated that Green’s infamous bobble against the USA was the result of heartbreak after being recently dumped by Minett.

After the match, Carbonero proved her professionalism.

Her first question to her boyfriend? “We’ve never lost to Switzerland. What do you think they did well today?”

Comments

[Ernie]

Nothing but a bunch of whining soccer palyers! Blame your girlfriend, you losers! Do you Blame your girlfriends and wives if you win, too? Typical Europeans.... If you touch me I'll fall down and hold my leg, all the time pretending to winch in pain. Just like the European hockey players. They must take theatrics in school! You screwed up....... admit it!

[Joe]

An Article On the World Cup - should not be paired to a notorious video circulating the web. The idea That this would appear in my web Browser titled "Two guys, one Cup" is disappointing. In a world wear ALL popular media outlets are failing me and news coverage has turned into opinion shaping and profit. I hope you strive to do better.

[JR Jake]

If a man loses his 'focus' because of a girl in the stands, regardless whether it is his wife or girlfriend; you would expect to see that from an amatuer with little experience. When a man loses 1-0 instead of 5-0 it is because his team scored few goals and the other team either got lucky or did well.

To blame it on the girlfriend is foolhardy, unless she kept him up late the night before. Giving up one goal versus a few does not denote that. If a man is off his game because of a girl, he makes many mistakes not just one. If you want to ban girlfriends and wives, than you might as well ban their children, parents and the rest of the family. Please, Spain lost because it was the day for the Swiss team.

[Marilou Hall]

This obviously has so much more to do with goats than girls. Someone, and we won't know who until the winner holds the cup, clearly has been practicing 'staring at goats' and has now mastered the millisecond brain freeze needed at the crucial moment. I think that that vuvuzelas are part of the whole process, that mesmerizing din which opens pathways into the right brain, not unlike a ''trojan horse virus', ready to be activated at the will of a person or persons of interest. And who might that be? Kim Jong Il? The Russian Mob, the women of Buenos Aires who wish to see their beloved coach Maradona streak to city hall at noon? Who knows. Or maybe it's a sinister coalition of all girlfriends of all soccer stars, headed by the ex-Spice Girl herself.