Soccer stars Cristiano Ronaldo (Real Madrid/Portugal) and Didier Drogba (Chelsea/Ivory Coast) strip down to their underwear for the June 2010 cover of Vanity Fair. (They’re wearing the colors of their country flag. Underwear has never looked so patriotic!)

These are the shirtles$ guys who will be taking the field in this summer’s World Cup tournament and featured in the mag’s cover spread: Sulley Muntari (Inter Milan/Ghana), Landon Donavan (L.A Galaxy/USA), Kaká (Real Madrid/Brazil) and Samuel Eto’o (Inter Milan/Cameroon), Pato (A.C Milan/Brazil), Gianluigi Buffon (Juventus [Turin]/Italy), Dejan Stankovic (Inter Milan/Serbia), Carlton Cole (West Ham United/England), and Michael Ballack (Chelsea/Germany).