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Three famous footballers' wives reveal what it's like to live alongside them

Three famous footballers' wives reveal what it's like to live alongside them
Abbreviation WAG, Wives and Girlfriendsdescribes the wives and partners of athletes (mainly football) and the accompanying news usually has something to do with… dramatic situations or major waste.

but now Amazonrealizing that sports documentaries sell like crazy, comes up with something different.

“Married To The Game”, the new production of the subscription platform, comes to reveal in all its dimensions the life of WAGS, and it is not just the luxurious and dreamy life that most people imagine. This is because there are many invisible aspects, full of difficulties, obstacles and challenges.









At least this is what three women who stand alongside famous football players claim and reveal: Taylor Ward (wife of Riyad Mahrez, who now plays for Al-Ahly club), Kat Harding (partner of Arsenal player Jorginho) and Sarah Gedogan (Mahrez’s wife). Barcelona footballer Ilkay Guidogan). Three women went through different situations during the years they spent next to their partners, and they were not chosen randomly. They all have experience. Premier League With Harding remaining in place, while Ward (Saudi Arabia) and Guidogan (Barcelona) moved on.

Ward: “We couldn't find a house because everything they showed us looked like…a mansion.”

Taylor Ward is the daughter of veteran English footballer Ashley Ward, who started out at United's academies, but moved on to 11 teams, including City.

Ward, who cost Blackburn 5 million euros in 1998, was involved from an early age with his wife Dawn in renovation work, and when he retired (in 2005) he participated in it and made a huge fortune… In 2018 he started going to City matches and there he met Taylor. Riyad Mahrez With whom she has been in a relationship since the beginning of 2020 (they got married a few months ago).

“I knew the life of a footballer involved risks of being somewhere else, but I thought if he left City we would go to London… yet he called me to tell me we were moving to Saudi Arabia.” This was all a shock. Riad is that man. Frank, raw and direct, but at the same time calm and supportive,” she explained about her husband’s move to Al-Ahly Club in Jeddah, where life is much better than he could have imagined.

“Well, you can't drink alcohol, I miss my friends but life in general is nice and quiet. The problem was that we couldn't find a house because all they showed us were like… mansions. They were all very big, two or three stories, “I didn't know what we were going to do.”

Finally, the family finds a ground floor villa, and Taylor receives her family within two hours as the family now lives permanently in Dubai (where they are also considering settling until Riad hangs up his boots).

Cat Harding: “I have no idea about football, I don't speak to Jorginho for 24 hours after a defeat”

Cat Harding has a daughter from her relationship with Jude Law, while Jorginho is the father of Zaks, as the Italian-Brazilian proposed to his lover a few weeks ago.

Harding, who rose to fame after participating in The Voice in the UK, had nothing to do with football.

“Your whole life is changing because everything revolves around your partner's schedule! Basically, you can't plan anything unless it happens in June!”

Many times we have arranged dinner with friends and canceled it because they missed the match. “When this happens, I can't talk to him for 24 hours… He's not in the mood to talk.”

And all this is said by a woman who not only has no idea what offside means, but recently learned that the team has eleven players!

But who considers the term WAG stupid and hopes that everyone will see that footballers' wives and partners are much more than luxury holidays and expensive gifts.

Sarah Guidogan: Despite its terrible food, I miss Manchester

In 7 years that Ilkay Guydogan Wearing a City shirt he conquered everything, but last summer he decided to move south to wear a Barcelona shirt.

In 2022, his wife Sarah caused a nervous panic among City fans when she wrote after her departure: “I can't find good Italian food, good sushi or even just fresh food…it's all frozen.” Restaurants are concentrated here [sic] In making money like nightclubs and not through good food. This may be the case in London, but never in Manchester. I'm sorry…”.







Sarah

However, a few months after her move to Barcelona, ​​the former model and presenter admitted: “I miss Manchester even if it doesn't have good food.” Italian-born Sarah, who also complained, said: “I always knew there was a risk of moving, but when When it happens, it's shocking.”

“People knew me before as a media star, but then I had to follow the rules of the sport. As footballers’ wives, they want us to be on the sidelines and present us in a certain way. So you lose a little bit of yourself, your spontaneity, and you have to find yourself again. But the thing is “The most important thing is that no matter how successful you were before, now you are the wife of a footballer or just a group of players. Everyone forgets what you have achieved up to that moment and you are forced to start from scratch.”

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