Blamed for... Braziliansoccer starsucking at World Cup 2006
When the mighty Brazil was knocked out of the 2006 World Cup by France in the quarterfinals of the competition, Brazilians were rather upset by their team's generally poor showing on soccer's biggest stage. In fact, some of them were so outraged, they vented their anger by burning down a seven-foot fiberglass-and-resin statue of one of the team's underperforming players, Ronaldinho.
To make matters worse - and further fanning the impassioned flames of nationalistic rage - Ronaldinho's French girlfriend at the time, nubile model Alexandra Paressant, claimed that the soccer player's disposition for a spot of post-coital PlayStation action may have been the reason for his dip in on-the-field form.
Above: Is Ronaldinho's in-game counterpart siphoning off his energies?
"He likes to relax afterwards by playing his games. He was playing the FIFA 2006 football game during the World Cup," Paressant said.However, Paressant, who proffered her World Cup revelations through tabloid The Sun, also revealed that during the tournament Ronaldinho would sneak into her hotel room and the couple would "make love all night."
Verdict: Videogames - guilty or not guilty?
Not guilty. We refute the claim thatplaying FIFA on PS2 will have a greater detrimental impact on a professional soccer player's match day ability than prolonged sessions of hide-the-one-eyed-samba-sausage with a horny French model. And while we can't prove this beyond doubt because a) we're too lazy to be professionalsoccer playersand b) we've never had sex in real-time (or any time) with a foxy, paid-for-being-beautiful mademoiselle, we're pretty sure we're right. We normally are.
