Costa Rica defender Dennis Marshall dead in car crash

Costa Rican soccer player Dennis Marshall has died in a car crash on Thursday night ( June 23, 2011) after a collision with a truck in Eastern San Jose. Defender Marshall had scored his first ever national goal just five days ago in the Gold Cup quarterfinal against Honduras, a match Costa Rica lost on penalties.

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Germany women’s football team Playboy Shoot- Pictures 2011

The message is, look, we are normal – and lovely – girls

Message by five German women footballers in Playboy’s June edition.

The German women’s football team are the defending champions at the 2011 World Cup that begins later this month in Berlin. Some members of the German national team took part in a raunchy shoot for Playboy Germany. However none of these women- Annika Doppler, 19, Ivana Rudelic, 19, and Julia Simic, 22 of FC Bayern Munich, Kristina Gessat of Gütersloh and Selina Wagner of Wolfsburg are part of the German team at the World Cup, so you can assume that the DFB will not be as outraged as it would probably be if first team players were involved.

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