DBasia.news – FFootball fans will be spoiled with the Qatar 2022 World Cup. Not only does it provide performances from the best footballers, but the World Cup is also often filled with interesting things off the field. One of them is the matter of hairstyles.
The World Cup is the most prestigious and exclusive international football tournament. The World Cup is held only once in four years.
Not surprisingly, a number of players want his performance to be remembered. Various ways are done, including with unique and eccentric hairstyles.
So, which players have the iconic hairstyles at the World Cup? Here are five of them:
Roberto Baggio
Roberto Baggio was part of the Italy squad at the 1994 World Cup. His appearance was striking with his iconic ponytail.
The number 10 player deliberately grew out his hair. Then, Baggio put it up as a ponytail. That was the reason Baggio had the nickname The Divine Ponytail.
Unfortunately, that unique hair didn’t bring Baggio any luck. He actually became responsible for Italy’s failure in the top match against Brazil after the execution of his penalty did not become a goal.
Romania National Team
The Romanian national team had a unique way of stealing attention at the 1998 World Cup. At that time, the team nicknamed the Tricolorii cut and dyed their hair blonde.
The action was a celebration of Romania’s victories against Colombia and England. Initially, the players challenged to the coach, Anghel Lordanescu.
Taribo West
Taribo West is known as a player who has a unique hairstyle. He did not want to miss participating in celebrating the 1998 World Cup and 2002 World Cup with his unique hair.
Taribo West put his hair up in a ponytail up front. In addition, he also dyed his hair according to the characteristic color of Nigeria, which is green.
Apparently, the experiment worked and West became one of the players with the most unique hairstyles at the World Cup.
Carlos Valderrama
The next iconic hair belongs to Colombian national team player, Carlos Valderrama. He appeared with frizzy blonde hair at the 1994 World Cup.
When some players choose to tie their hair when it gets long, it wasn’t the case for Valderrama. He purposely did not straighten his hair to make it look frizzy.
A few years later, a hairstyle similar to Carlos Valderrama’s came back. Two players who featured it were Marouane Fellaini and David Luiz.
Ronaldo Nazario
Ronaldo Nazario has the most unique and memorable hairstyle in World Cup history. The Brazilian national team striker cut his hair in a style leaving a little in the front. At that time, Ronaldo’s hairstyle was called a bun.
In fact, Ronaldo didn’t like such hairstyle. However, he deliberately did so to distract the public from the injuries that hit before the 2002 World Cup.
Fortunately, Ronaldo’s strategy worked. In addition to the injury factor that no longer became the center of the conversation, curly hair also brought in good luck. Ronaldo brought Brazil to be the winner.
Ronaldo was inspired by the character of the Brazilian cartoon series, Turma da Monica, named Cascao. The hairstyle was also imitated by a number of Brazilian players, such as Neymar and Roberto Firmino.