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ON SOCCER: Greed or glamor, Chelsea's Ashley Cole has image problem

Updated: September 15, 2006, 2:40 AM ET
Associated Press

LONDON -- With the glamorous lifestyle that comes with having a pop star wife, Ashley Cole seems to have everything going for him as a highly paid soccer player.

He recently picked up a 50 percent pay raise by joining two-time English champion Chelsea and now earns $170,000 a week. He's even being hailed as the world's best left-sided defender and his autobiography is being serialized in The Times of London.

Is this soccer's new superstar? Will Cole be alongside the likes of David ...

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