World Cup followers gutted as ‘prettiest WAG ever’ knocked out of competitors
World Cup fans have been left gutted after the ‘prettiest WAG ever’ was forced to head home after her Premier League star lover’s nation flopped in North America.
Germany became the first major footballing power to crash out of the World Cup after Julian Nagelsmann’s side lost a penalty shootout for the first time in tournament history when Paraguay stunned the fallen giants, who are a shadow of the mighty Die Mannschaft sides of the past.
The four-time champions fell behind on the stroke of half-time before Arsenal forward Kai Havertz headed them level in the second-half; however, Germany were unable to find a winning goal and will be heading home after suffering heartbreak from 12 yards – including the ex-Chelsea man missing his penalty.
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Havertz’s tournament has been ended earlier than the Arsenal striker’s performance arguably merited after scoring three goals in four games. But the 27-year-old will soon be heading back to north London with his stunning wife Sophia hoping to help pick him back up.
Sophia was snapped cheering Germany on in the stands, with fans on social media dubbing her the ‘prettiest WAG ever’ and lamenting that she will no longer be gracing stadiums with her beauty.
The 26-year-old is a fashion model and social media influencer who started dating the versatile forward in 2018 during his breakthrough years at Bayer Leverkusen after they grew up in the same neighbourhood.
The two then wed in July 2024 and welcomed a baby boy in March the following year.
Sophia has 516,000 followers on Instagram where she posts fashion campaigns, travel content and glimpses into her personal and family life.
However, her presence in North America hasn’t pleased everyone after Germany legend Lothar Matthaus slammed WAGs hanging around Die Mannschaft for distracting players away from the task at hand.
Matthaus has claimed that Germany’s players were distracted by their WAGs and families at the World Cup, pinning the blame on them for their early exit at the hands of Paraguay.
The ex-national team skipper drew parallels with the 1994 tournament, when they were knocked out in the quarter-finals by Bulgaria as the defending champions. Matthaus, 65, led Germany in both of those tournaments, which were two of the five World Cups he participated in.
He stated: “While there’s a lot that needs to be processed about what happened on the pitch, what happened off the pitch also needs to be a topic of discussion.”
“There were documentaries [made] about this topic in ’94 [and] I don’t think it was that different this time round.”
Matthaus alleges family was “more important for many of [the players] than what took place on the football pitch”.
He said: “I really don’t know why they should be there. They [the players] hadn’t even been in America for two weeks, and already their entire families were with them. They could have been flown in for the quarter-finals when the team had actually accomplished something.”
He also alleges “there was a lot of unrest” over varying travel arrangements. Matthaus stated: “I know that it was a topic of discussion and that one player was cross with another because he was allowed to bring his mum with him.
“Another was allowed to bring his wife, then the kids were allowed to fly too.”
Inconsistencies are said to have emerged with some travelling on the team plane, while “others had had to take a commercial flight”.
He concluded: “The focus was simply not on the World Cup but on this free day to spend with the family and that free day with the family”.
