Portugal is the only non-American team I’m somewhat familiar with because I’m up to speed on who Cristiano Ronaldo is. The rest of America likely is too: All his game-tying cross needed was real announcers like Gus Johnson or Marv Albert shouting "DAGGER!"
I know Ronaldo better as the bro in between SI swim smoke fav Irina Shayk and the cameras.
I’ll be documenting the trials and tribulations of world-class swim smokes for as long as I occupy this lonely post.
For those who don't subscribe to Sports Illustrated or read this here blog, they'll be introduced to Irina properly this summer in the second movie about Hercules to be released this year.
I'm none too pleased with the film's rollout thus far, since the trailer goes and spoils why the Rock is yelling in every scene.
Irina is not your average soccer WAG. She's dabbled in the international arena, pitching in to help #bringbackourgirls. Since the girls have been missing for going on two months now, maybe Boko Haram doesn't read Sports Illustrated either.
Irina and Ronaldo form one of the most formidable international power couples. She's a world-famous SI swim smoke; he's the most expensive soccer player in history, as Real Madrid paid $132 million to Manchester United for his rights in 2009. The new deal banked him €21 million per year (after taxes) and had a €1 billion buyout clause. That sounds a lot like Nick Saban's new deal at Alabama.
However, due to Spain’s high tax rates, Ronaldo may be just the second-highest paid in the world after taxes. Taxing the rich must have been a popular dinner conversation when Irina attended the White House Correspondent's Dinner this past spring.
Since we're talking about taxes and I'm taking this space to view the world in how soccer WAGs see it, let's see how Ronaldo's home country's been doing of late. Per the Wiki:
The Financial Crisis of 2008 continues to severely affect the Portuguese economy and it shrank for the third consecutive year in 2013.[23] The crisis has caused a wide range of domestic problems that are specifically related to the levels of public deficit, as well as the excessive debt levels, in the economy. Nonetheless, the government faces tough choices in regard to its attempts to stimulate the economy while it also seeks to maintain its public deficit around the EU average.
Woof.
At least Irina chips in $4 million to the power couple's fortune herself. C'est la vie of a soccer WAG.
