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The naked jocks have arrived

By Raziel Reid • December 3, 2012 2:40 pm EDT

The annual Dieux du Stade (Gods of the Stadium) calendar has arrived in all its homoerotic jock glory. The calendar started in 2001, featuring photographs of French rugby team Stade Français. The calendar has since evolved to artistically showing off the assets of other rugby teams as well, and this year photographer François Rousseau is giving us delicious soccer players Gaël Clichy and Rio Mavuba.

The “making of” video is like a little gift just in time for the holidays:

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