Fabio Capello is wagging a finger at the glamorous wives and girlfriends of English soccer players.

Wary of the distractions accompanying soccer players' celebrity lifestyles, England's coach will allow the so-called WAGS to visit the squad only on the days after games at next year's World Cup.

Capello is set to take a tougher stance than his predecessors, seeking to avoid a repeat of what defender Rio Ferdinand called "a circus" during the 2006 tournament in Germany.

"I hope we will be there for a very long period but the players will have one day with their family, with the girls and with their friends," Capello said. "It will be one day a week, after each game, and that is enough. That's it. We are there to play football, not for a holiday."

While international squads usually prepare in isolation for tournaments, with only infrequent and short visits by families, then England coach Sven-Goran Eriksson let players frequently leave their hotel in woodsy Buehlertal to visit their partners in the nearby spa town of Baden-Baden.

Several of the players conceded that the presence of the likes of Beckham">Victoria Beckham and Aloud">Girls Aloud singer Cheryl Cole, who is married to defender Ashley Cole, and the subsequent media attention had distracted the players at the World Cup.

With many journalists staying in a hotel near the one where the WAGS stayed, British newspapers gloried in tales including a $100,000-plus shopping spree in local fashion and jewelry stores and the dancing on the table of a bar while singing loudly.

England lost to Portugal on penalty kicks in the quarterfinal, and Capello will not tolerate a repeat.

"Absolutely not," Capello said. "If they do not want to come for the day, then they should stay at home."

Source: AP