Super suave Jogi Löw, nine times winner of German Housewives’ Heartthrob Magazine’s ‘Heartthrob of the Year’ award, is causing quite a stir among the football fashionistas at this year’s World Cup.
The dashing Herr Löw makes even Jose Mourinho look slovenly. The 50-year-old German coach is the Bryan Ferry of the technical area. He puts the ‘Mod’ in ‘Modfather.’ Paul Weller: eat your heart out.
If Daniel Craig ever feels like calling it a day and hanging up his tux, I’d back Jogi to be the next James Bond.
Check out his preference for a trendy retro silk scarf to a simple tie. And forget the quilted sports coat favoured by 99% of football managerial fashion catastrophes; dapper dandy Jogi opts for a John Smedley-style knitted polo top, with a bespoke suit jacket to complete that 1960s Italian film icon look.
One Aussie newspaper has even branded Löw, amusingly, Eric Zoolander, after Ben Stiller’s hilarious male-model character in the 2001 comedy Zoolander.
Instead of debating the score of Sunday’s Group D match The Australian newspaper was speculating whether Joachim would don his trademark ‘black skivvy’ if the winter temperatures plummet in Durban. A ‘skivvy’ is apparently Oz slang for a black turtle neck. Jogi is so damn suave he probably delivers boxes of Black Magic chocolates to exotic European heiresses in Swiss ski resorts in such attire.
In stark sartorial contrast Socceroos coach Pim Verbeek’s unruly swept-over barnet has attracted ridicule from some quarters, including Kevin McCarra in The Guardian, who says: “Verbeek could be one of those mid-life crisis backpackers hanging around Thailand. His refusal to take out the hair clippers is becoming a national joke.” Indeed, old Pim looks like the co-founder of The Beach after a long night puffing Thai sticks and swimming with bioluminescent plankton.
But forget that ageing Dutch hippy look: it’s all for the love of Löw. I can just picture Joachim, like Eric Zoolander, unveiling his ultimate look, staring wildly at the world’s television cameras, shaking that jet-black Beatles moptop and sucking in his cheeks, as the winning goal hits the back of the net for Germany in the World Cup final. The look? It’s called ‘Der Jogi’…
