While Sven Goran Eriksson's team are psyching themselves up in the Algarve heat for their World Cup showdown, their other halves are happier cooling off in the sea.
Showing off their tanned and toned bodies, stunning duo Charlotte Mears and Sabrina Keogh frolicked in the surf, soaking up some sun as well as some of the attention before their Spurs boyfriends take centre stage in Germany next month.
The England team are in Portugal for four days of light exercise and relaxation with their families before the intensive training begins for the soccer championship, which is just three weeks away. While Sabrina and Charlotte enjoyed a dip in the sea in itsy bitsy bikinis and oversized shades, new arrival 17-year-old Melanie Slade was making the most of the glamorous scene as girlfriend of footballing's latest wunderkind, Theo Walcott.
Blonde Melanie, dressed in denim shorts and white vest top, mixed happily on the beach with her more well-known counterparts, including Michael Owen's wife Louise, while also snatching time with her handsome boyfriend during a stroll in the sand.
One soon-to-be footballer's "wife" who couldn't make the trip was Toni Poole, 23. The fiancée of Chelsea star John Terry was giving birth to twins in London's exclusive Portland hospital as her partner dashed from the Vale de Lobo training camp to be by her side. The proud dad, who got there an hour after his little boy and girl were born, told reporters: "The babies are well, Toni is doing well and we are both absolutely delighted."
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