Football players or models?

Vanity Fair magazine is releasing 2010 World Cup issue featuring 11 footballers, giving the cover to Cristiano Ronaldo (Real Madrid and Portugal) and Didier Drogba (Chelsea and Ivory Coast). Annie Leibovitz traveled to Milan, Madrid, London and Brooklyn for the photo shoots.

From Vanity Fair’s Blog:

For the June issue of Vanity Fair, Annie Leibovitz set out to capture some of the sport’s biggest stars, including Portugal’s Cristiano Ronaldo, Ivory Coast’s Didier Drogba, Cameroon’s Samuel Eto’o, Ghana’s Sulley Muntari, the U.S.A.’s Landon Donovan, Brazil’s Kaká and Pato, Italy’s Gianluigi Buffon, Serbia’s Dejan Stankovic, England’s Carlton Cole, and Germany’s Michael Ballack. Leibovitz’s portraits are, well, revealing. And underwear has never looked so patriotic.

Photograph by Annie Lebovitz - image from vanityfair.com