You know, it’s been a long little while since we’ve jump-started the week with some old-fashioned hotness and frankly, I’m not okay with that.
In a way, you have a gas station attendant in Ensenada to thank for what we are about to receive.
Yesterday, the fella and I decided to take a daytrip south of the little port city to avail ourselves of the fresh mountain air, see La Bufadora (purportedly the second biggest blowhole in North America), check out a potential relocation spot for Villa Plumcake and –fingers crossed– watch some jerkface surfers get eaten by sharks.
Disappointingly, the local great whites must’ve given up jerkface for Lent, and having grown up inside the Washington D.C. Beltway I can attest that not only is La Bufadora NOT the second biggest blowhole in North America, it wasn’t even the second biggest blowhole on my street. Still, the air was great, the mountains resplendent and the ocean view was well worth (okay, almost well worth) the disappointment of not seeing any great white gore fests.
Of course neither of us could focus on the air, mountain, blowhole or lack of shark-related brutality because we were too busy trying to remember the name of Barcelona’s dishy (okay, only I called him dishy) goalkeeper after seeing his doppeltwinsy pumping gas at a roadside fuel-and-taco emporium. This went on for three hours.
The keeper in question was, of course, young miss Victor Valdes.
I’ve got to be honest here, he’s never really steamed my tamale. Sure, he’s a good-looking fella, but his smolder is so self-satisfied that it leapfrogs straight over Sexy and lands in Unintentionally Hilarious Homoerotic Meathead.
e.g.:
P.S. I really hope the stylist put those back in Depeche Mode’s “Personal Jesus”video before Dave Gahan slaps someone silly.
Then I started thinking, in the way I so often do, about my favorite goal keepers. As it turns out Valdes, despite being considered one of the world’s best boys in the box (shut your mouth!) was only #3 behind Pepe Reina and Saint Iker for Ethpana’s 2010 World Cup national team.
Oh Pepe.
As any Liverpool fan will say, or more appropriately sing (to the tune of Guantanamera) “One Pepe Reina. There’s only one Pepe Reina.”
but wouldn’t it be nice if there were several?
If Victor Valdes is the guy at the bachelorette party you make your friends SWEAR never to mention again, second-generation goalkeeping legend Pepe Reina is the guy you marry and have a half-dozen athletically gifted children with, all while praying they get your hairline.
A lovable goofball, Reina was described as both the best dancer in the Liverpool Football Club and, much more interestingly, “the longest in the shower” on more than one occasion.
Of course we couldn’t mention the prince and the queen (Reina means Queen in Spanish) without taking a moment for Sara “If This Boob Job Doesn’t Convince You I’m a Serious Journalist I Don’t Know What Will” Carbonero’s infinitely better half, Real Madrid keeper and captain of the World Cup-winning Spanish National Team, Iker Casillas.
We’ve featured Saint Iker on The Monday Hotness before, but just as a little refresher, here’s a teensy taste of why it’s a bad idea to throw something at a person who catches flying objects for a living.
I’ve said it before: Competence is so sexy.
With all due respect, Miss Plum, how can you mention hot goalkeepers and not mention my beloved Gigi Buffon?
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_hE0TRpE-p8U/SNKogB6hTmI/AAAAAAAALEA/ZPlqAiX_aTk/s400/Gianluigi+Buffon+4.jpg
Comment by klee — March 5, 2012 @ 5:52 pm
(I was trying to paste a pic there, sorry)
Comment by klee — March 5, 2012 @ 5:53 pm
Victor Valdes strikes me as the kind of guy who would tell you 8,000 lies, get the bartender to give you a drink of tinted water and then steal your wallet. I’m sure he’s a lovely guy, but…
Comment by Marsha — March 5, 2012 @ 11:40 pm
Of course, you do know that the Spanish side only take Pepe Reina along with them to matches because of the Pepe Reina Show:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mY8gKelsYDY&feature=related
Comment by aa — March 6, 2012 @ 11:25 am