10 Famous footballers with even more famous partners

This footballer married the singer of a group that won X Factor UK
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Football has quite a lot of athletes who enjoy stardom, here are the wives and girlfriends of football players who are even more famous than their husbands!

Football is a sport that is enjoyed by a great majority across the world.

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A rich industry

The BBC reports that the European football market is worth £25.1 billion, with the English Premier League leading the market with a revenue of £4.8 billion. Rising through the ranks on the field can guarantee the kind of income that facilitates a luxurious lifestyle as well as extended attention from the public eye.

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Players like Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo have cemented themselves in the hearts of countless in the world as superstars, with the latter surpassing $1 billion in career earnings according to Forbes. That being said, sometimes the partners of football stars are more popular than the players themselves.

The better halves

According to Goal, wives and girlfriends of football players are referred to as WAGs, and usually, there is a negative connotation that's attached to it by tabloids that popularized the term in the first place. When the term is used, it often refers to women as 'spongers' who depend on spending their partners' money.

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The usage of the term is established to be sexist, and in many cases, the partners of the athletes are financially and publicly established to a degree where they outshine their husbands.

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