A stunning Mexican model turned sports journalist has admitted she booted a randy footballer in the balls when he tried to kiss her during an interview
A Mexican model and sports journalist has sparked a guessing game after revealing she gave a randy Brazilian footballer a karate kick in the balls during an interview in his hotel suite.
Ines Sainz Gallo said she lashed out after the football star got too close and tried to kiss her after his agent had ushered her camerawoman out of the room.
The married 47-year-old mum-of-four, who has interviewed the likes of Cristiano Ronaldo and Roberto Carlos during her glittering career, refused to name the star she had left with a painful memory of their meeting.
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But the stunning blonde gave away several telltale clues about his identity when she appeared on a podcast with Mexican TV and radio host Jorge Van Rankin – including his nationality and the fact he had recently signed for AC Milan.
Ines, who moved from modelling to sports reporting and turned down an offer to pose nude in Playboy in 2010, said of the incident: “AC Milan had just signed a top Brazilian player.
“I agreed an interview with him through the club and at the time he was staying at a hotel across from the Milan Central Station while they were house-hunting for him and he says, ‘I can give you the interview at the hotel.’
“That’s common. So I go with my camerawoman, we enter, and they told us the interview would be in the small living room of his suite.”
Saying the situation suddenly changed when the footballer’s agent got her colleague out of the room on a pretext and the door was closed behind them, Ines added: “That’s when I decided this was a trap.
“At first I played dumb to see if that worked and that’s when he started getting closer and closer and closer and wanted to hug me and kiss me.
“It was a terrible moment. I practice taekwondo, so I unleashed everything I had and kicked him with all my might in the balls. Then I started banging on the door to get out, my camerawoman opened it and we left.”
Giving away more clues about the player’s identity when she was asked by her interviewer if the footballer was handsome, Ines responded: “No, he’s a horrible thing”.
She went on to say to Jorge Van Rankin: “I’ll tell you off camera afterwards who it was but obviously it wasn’t Kaka who’s an absolute gentleman.”