David and Mathias. Image courtesy of VMan.

What could be more exciting than many of the world’s top male models posing for VMan? It just may be all of them getting together getting for tomorrow’s Male Model World Cup sponsored by the mag. Some top faces scheduled to kick off the event: Mathias Lauridsen, Simon Nessman, Danny Schwarz, Oraine Barrett and many more (see full list below). We chatted with VMan editor Jacob Brown and found out the inspiration.

“I came up with this idea actually at Mathias Lauridsen’s birthday dinner. He was telling me about the league soccer he plays, and how so many of the guys are also very serious soccer players—a lot of them are from Europe and have played all their lives. One of us made a joke like, “Oh wouldn’t it be funny if there was a big tournament where all the models competed.” And then I realized that it would actually be a perfect event for VMAN to host. So Mathias and I started putting it together. He’s sort of the chairman of the tournament and has helped get the players together with the agencies. And Hummel, which is an athletic gear company from his home country of Denmark, hooked us up with uniforms and everything. We are shooting the tournament tomorrow of course, and we will be running photos of the winning team in the next VMAN. Stephen Gan and I are really excited about this tournament and plan on making the Male Model World Cup a yearly event!

Gorgeous, athletic and sweaty men… Doesn’t get better than that.

VNY
Danny Schwarz
Ollie Edwards
Lenz von Johnston
Mike Boyd
Helge Gjerstad
Dan Duderstadt
Joost Van Der Hulst

Request Model Management
Arthur Kulkov
Claudio Monteiro
Douglas Folis
Markus Fent
Mikhael Ayoub

New York Models
Mathias Lauridsen
Nadav Heyman
Erik Sims
Brett Reeves
Mark Westinghouse

Major Models
Ben Pamies
Simon Nessman
Oraine Barrett
Giannis
George Paul
Lucho
Fred
Rory

FORD Models
Marcus Andersson
James Collins
Anderson Ribero
Daniel DiTomasso
Darrin Haala
Daniel Robert

DNA Models
Lucas Kalda
Issa Tomaleh
Matt Loewen
Robin Scott
Wes Phillips