Are Argentina’s Gay Soap Opera Footballers Based On Real Life Players?

Botineras is an Argentinian soap opera featuring footballers Manuel (Cristiano Sancho) and Lalo (Ezequiel Castaño) getting naked and getting it on. In these clips the Matt Dillonesque bearded guy falls for the curly-headed brunette. The the bearded guy shows his butt, lays around in grey undies, and gets a beej—awesome! After watching the clip, we’re pretty sure the guy with the facial hair is the top. But that’s only half the story.
The other half is that the steamy television romance has viewers wondering if the storyline is based on soccer legend and Argentina World Cup coach Diego Maradona who occasionally kisses men on camera. Rumor Rat has more:

“Maradona even went on the defensive after rumors that his PDAs with team-members amounted to more than just a physical expression of encouragement and congratulations.

“No I have not gone limp-wristed,” Maradona homophobically told the press after one of his team’s World Cup wins. “But I like to acknowledge and congratulate my players when they play as well as they did today. That was a pleasing result and display. It was a job well done.”

That doesn’t mean that the storyline isn’t based on actual soccer players, just perhaps not on Maradona. But maybe some other hot footballer couple will come out and make all our TV cream-dreams cum true. Until then, get a boner to the clips above.