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Stripping off...members of Germany's women's football team have posed for Playboy. Source: Roff Vennerbend / AFP
Five members of the German women's soccer team have posed for Playboy to show they are just "normal" girls and that soccer is not a 'butch' sport.
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The cover of the July issue of the magazine's German edition shows the players posing in a very risque version of the national team's black and white soccer uniform, including very low cut tops and bikini bottoms.
The five players said they agreed to participate in the erotic photo shoot to help throw off the perception that they were all tomboys.
"With these photos, we want to disprove the cliche that all female footballers are butch," Germany midfielder Kristina Gessat told the magazine.
"The message is: look, we are very normal and lovely girls!"
Midfielder Julia Simic said, "More and more sweet, pretty girls are playing football who also go shopping and place value on their appearance."
Germany has dominated women's soccer for years and is preparing to host the World Cup, which begins June 26.
Australia will send our youngest Matilda's team ever to the tournament. The average age of the playing group is 22 and includes Twenty20 world champion and glamour girl, Ellyse Perry.
Read more: http://www.thelocal.de/sport/20110610-35593.html
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