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Ghana midfielder Sulley Muntari is among several top players who have gone almost naked to promote their countries for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa.
On Tuesday, Vanity Fair magazine published photos of some of the biggest football stars in the world stripped down to their underpants.
In an homage to the upcoming World Cup, stars such as Cristiano Ronaldo, Michael Ballack and Didier Drogba posed in briefs in their national colours for the photo project.
Muntari looked embarrassed when he was stading alonside his firend and team-mate Samuel Eto'o when they stripped for the celebrity photographer Annie Leibowitz.
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The magazine placed semi-nude Ronaldo and Drogba on its front cover, while on the inside pages fans could ogle the scantily clad figures of Cameroon's Samuel Eto'o, Ghana's Sulley Muntari, US player Landon Donovan, Brazil's Kaka and Pato, Italy's Gianluigi Buffon, Serbia's Dejan Stankovic and England's Carlton Cole.
Football has long been called "the beautiful game", and now even people who don't follow the world's favourite sport might agree.
Some people are looking beyond the pants of the players to measure other things associated with the male top footballers!
The Sun newspaper in the UK said: "TWO fearsome strikers square up on a magazine cover - with only one emerging victorious in the tackle.
"DIDIER DROGBA proves no match for old Premier League foe CRISTIANO RONALDO as the pair pose in pants for Vanity Fair's new issue.
"In fact the Ivory Coast goal machine, 32, looks distinctly DIDDIER.
"Maybe that explains why grinning ex-Manchester United hero Ronaldo, 25 - now appearing up front for Real Madrid - appears to be on the verge of one of his famous winks."
Surely Muntari will also be no match for Ronaldo!
Featuring 32 nations, the World Cup starts in June in South Africa.
