ML Batman-Beauty Soccer Star ‘Couple’

Another ‘sports couple of the century ’ is born.

Handsome star of major league, Noma Garciapara (29. Boston Red socks. Left photo) and U.S football beautiful star, Mia Ham (30. Washington Freedom. Right photo) announced engagement on 8th.

Garciapara who defeated batting king in American league two times successively is a superstar and has been selected as three big batsmen in major league with Alex Rodriguez (Texas Rangers) and Derrick Ziter (New York Yankees). Ham is the best woman goal getter who led her team to victory in women’s world cup, 1999. She was much talked about as she took off her shirt for celebrating goal.

Garciapara stated in an interview with Boston Herald, “We got engaged on last thanksgiving day. We were supposed to marry within two years.” Two met each other at volunteer bazaar 1998 and when Ham divorced her helicopter pilot husband after six years of marital life, Garciapara proposed her.

Other representative sports couple besides them is Andre Aggasi (32)-Steffi Graf (33) in Tennis and Team Mongomeri (27)-Marian Jones (27) in athletics. Aggasi and Graf are superstar couple that ranks world top one. Jones who is called as an empress in women sprinting divorced C.J. Hunter, who was suspected of taking drugs and a shot-putter, and is having an affair with Mongomeri (9.78 second) who has world new record in 100m.

In domestic, Ahn Jae-hyung (37)-Jaozmin (38) couple in table tennis is representative. There are couples such as Gang Sung-woo (33) who is a baseball catcher in SK and Lee Kang-hee (33) who is national basketball player, Kim Se-jin (28. volleyball)-Gu Na-yeon (26. Rhythm exercise), Park Sung-woo (32. Badminton)-Im Oh-gyeong (32. Handball), Hyun Jeong-hwa (33. Equestrian)-Kim Suk-man (33. table tennis).

There is an unusual homosexual couple, like Camilla Andersen (29. Denmark)-Mia Huntbin (26. Norway), who is women handball stars. They even plan to have a baby by artificial insemination.

Hwan-Soo Zang zangpabo@donga.com