{"id":344849,"date":"2014-06-13T17:59:35","date_gmt":"2014-06-13T09:59:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mariefranceasia.com\/uncategorized-hk\/world-cup-hotties-344849.html"},"modified":"2019-05-04T09:35:52","modified_gmt":"2019-05-04T01:35:52","slug":"world-cup-hotties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mariefranceasia.com\/hk\/culture-hk\/entertainment-hk\/world-cup-hotties-344849.html","title":{"rendered":"World Cup Hotties: 20 Football players to watch in 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"

There\u2019s no denying that the world cup is an exciting and exhilarating time for everyone, and whether or not we\u2019re ardent fans of the sport the rest of the year, we all seem to jump onto the football-fever bandwagon once World Cup<\/a> season rolls around.<\/p>

For us women, especially, those who don\u2019t particularly find ourselves at sports bars rooting for our favourite FCs on a weekly basis, the world cup\u00a0-\u00a0along with the excitable fever it creates amongst people - is a time where we can enjoy some real eye candy! Considering in Asia <\/a>we\u00a0don\u2019t exactly have the most convenient of time slots to watch the matches \u2013 usually the big games happen in the wee hours \u2013 one of the biggest incentives to stay up and watch devotedly are the drool-worthy players. This was a tough call to make but we picked fifteen of the cr\u00e8me-de la-cr\u00e8me of this FIFA World Cup 2014\u2019s<\/strong> hubba-hubba<\/em> inducing men<\/a>.<\/p>

Enjoy...<\/p>

Diya-Maya T Bhalla<\/em><\/p> ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We pick the hotties who will be keeping us glued to the screen during the FIFA World Cup 2014.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":174,"featured_media":27203,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_yoast_wpseo_metadesc":"From Christiano Ronaldo, Jack Wilshere, Gerard Pique, Nicolas Lodeiro and more - here are our top 15 sexy football hotties from the Fifa World Cup 2014!","_is_translated":false,"_source_post_url":"","is_displayed_in_hp":false,"displayed_in_hp_after_update":false,"is_thumb_featured":false,"template_without_diapo":"","enable_bloc_resume":false,"bloc_resume_post":[],"ctc_post":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16396,9791,16864],"tags":[3353,3063,3067,2822,2819,3066,3065,3473,3190,137,2970,2304,3075,3078],"class_list":["post-344849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment-hk","category-galerie","category-galerie-hk","tag-autumn-2014","tag-brasil","tag-dreamy","tag-fifa","tag-football","tag-football-playes","tag-footballers","tag-grand-palais","tag-makeup-product","tag-men","tag-seduce","tag-tired-looking-skin","tag-wheelchair","tag-wheelchair-clothing"],"yoast_head":"\nFifa World Cup 2014: 20 hottest football players - 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