This summer, young Matías Soulé, a Juventus player, thought it was a good idea to let himself be carried away by a player’s attack and he had a platinum blonde hairstyle that he was quick to upload to Instagram to happily observe the reactions of his fans. One of his fans is Ángel di María, his former teammate and Benfica player, who didn’t have the body to applaud: “What a joke. Your dad Allegri is not going to like it, hahahaha.” A few days later, Soulé uploaded a photo in training in which there was no longer a trace of his glamorous hairstyle and a laconic response to Di María: “You were right, brother.”
Allegri’s relationship with his players’ hair is explosive: many people’s hair distracts them, it reduces their game, they are more concerned about putting on their bangs than the ball, they care more about doing well in celebrating the goal than about executing it. , I do not know. Allegri is an apprentice of Pasarella, who led his obsession to ban anyone with long hair from the Argentine team. In that struggle between principles and professional career or glory, the traditional battle between what matters little (“Cutting my hair? It doesn’t seem right to me, but okay”) and what matters a lot (“Cutting my hair, I don’t care if I do it”). I decide”), won Fernando Carlos Redondo, who preferred to lose a World Cup rather than have someone successfully interfere with something as personal as his style.
Juve’s new star is 18 years old and his name is Kenan Yildiz. He is a Turkish boy born the same year as Real Madrid player Arda Güler, and Turkey builds the expectations of his national team in the future on the two. Kenan, who arrived unusually free from Bayern to Turin, is a handsome and talented boy who has amazed everyone since his debut last summer. He also Allegri, who however found a defect that could get worse in Kenan. “During the game he touched his hair about a hundred times. Tomorrow it will have to be cut: let’s do things the way they should be done.” Kenan got it cut the next day and posted the image on Instagram posing with his hairdresser. He is still 20 years old. He will be older, and will have more power than Allegri, and will be able to choose more freely.
Kenan now has more serious problems to dwell on, for example that his explosion as an elite player does not consume himself, as it so often happens at 18 years old. This management of success in just a teenager has already had its first convulsions. The forward is German by birth, his mother is from Bavaria, and his father is Turkish. What happened is that Germany delayed or hesitated in calling him up and Kenan, at Turkey’s call, went to select him. The decision is not easy: it is about knowing which country you are going to work for, which countries you are going to beat in the qualifying rounds, including the one you were born in. Kenan did not have the same doubts as Germany. “My mother is German and my father is Turkish. I have played for Turkey since the Under-17s and I am very proud of it. Germany never contacted me. So the option has not existed, the question has not been raised and I am very happy to play for Turkey,” he told Bild.
It is very likely that more thought has been given to his time at the hairdresser than to the national team for which he will play for the next twenty years. And it is logical that it is so.
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2023-11-20 04:15:00
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