Sex Scandal Costs British Soccer Star His Captaincy

John Terry had affair with teammate's galpal, then covered it up

By Will McCahill, Newser Staff

Posted Feb 5, 2010 7:59 PM CST

Copied

Sex Scandal Costs British Soccer Star His Captaincy — Model Vanessa Peroncel was reportedly offered $700,000 dollars to keep mum about her affair with England soccer captain John Terry. (AP Photo)

Just months before the World Cup, the captain of England’s national soccer team was stripped of the role over a seamy sex scandal. John Terry, 29 and married, had an affair with a teammate’s girlfriend—even paying for an abortion—and then tried through lawyers and, reportedly, hush money to keep things quiet. “The situation was becoming worse by the day,” a source tells the Daily Mail. “(Coach) Fabio (Capello) needed to protect the team.”

“I fully respect Fabio Capello’s decision,” Terry said in a statement to the Sun. “I will continue to give everything for England.” Meanwhile, Vanessa Perroncel, the 28-year-old French lingerie model on the other end of the relationship, denied she’d been paid off, and said she wouldn’t take tabloids’ money to talk.
(More 2010 World Cup stories.)

Report an error