The unfamiliar combination of jock couture, lifelong cigarette consumption, gimlet-eyed egomania and crazy foreign haircuts — international soccer coaches tend to look like they should be ensconced in heavily fortified island compounds, preparing to unleash photoplasmic death rays if their demands are not met.
Here are five soccer coaches whose extravagantly evil looks are worthy of an assignment for 007.
Just imagine each of these men saying: “You will now meet your fate, Mr. Bond ”
1. Pim Verbeek (Australia)
Not only does he lead Australia’s heavy-booted Socceroos — while they may not beat you, but they’re going to beat you, if you catch our drift — but he has the world-weary mug of a hardened professional who only inflicts pain for business reasons. Plus, there is something very unsettling about the name Pim. 
2. Diego Maradona (Argentina)
Maradona is not only one of the greatest players of all time, he is also the only one of our choices who lives like a Bond villain in real life.
Does he hang out with Fidel Castro? Sure. Flatten reporters with his Mini Cooper? Done. An extreme, operatic personality, Maradona (below) will either guide a talent-laden Argentina to soccer immortality, or stage one of the most flamboyant flame-outs in World Cup history. Either way, mullets and wolf beards are a go!
3. Dunga (Brazil)
Like Pele, Ronaldo and other beloved legends of Brazil’s patented form of high-art soccer, Dunga (pointing like a madman) uses just one name. And there the resemblance ends.
Known as a tough guy during his playing career, this flat-topped tyrant has stirred controversy by remodeling Brazil’s iconic squad in his own image. In other words, he plans to run his team like it’s in that Rio gun flick “City of God.” (which by the way is a great movie, a must watch)
4. Matjaz Kek (Slovenia)
Besides the fact that “Matjaz Kek” may be the most Bond-villain-y name ever, the dumpling-shaped Slovene capo looks like he should be the figurehead of an extreme and eccentric post-Yugoslavian political movement.
5. Bob Bradley (U.S.)
Stop looking at us! Stop looking at us! We may not have the most glorious soccer pedigree in this country, but we can take pride in producing the most skeletal and unnerving coach in the 2010 World Cup.
Bradley’s shorn head, bony countenance and icy, impenetrable concentration-camp-guard stare may serve as one of Team USA’s few built-in competitive advantages, as he will literally freeze the souls of our opponents.
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