Here we were assuming that Lionel Messi was just following the rest of the crowd dyeing his hair blonde but apparently the Barcelona superstar had an actual reason and it was linked to his international retirement.
This summer Aaron Ramsey kicked off a trend amongst footballers by taking peroxide to his hair and coloring it bleach blonde. One by one Samir Nasri, Phil Jones and Neymar all followed the Welshman, you know all the big names. And then came Messi, the last person we expected to be a sheep!
However the Argentinian, back in his home country after reversing his international retirement, was being interview by tv personality Mingo, revealed, via Sport, the reason for his change in hair colour:
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"I made a change to start from zero. A lot had gone on, things had happened, and I said to myself: "I have to break this and start again."
Despite winning the Ballon d'Or and La Liga it's been quite a tough 2016 for Messi with the Barcelona forward facing trial for tax fraud in July and then Argentina losing the Copa America final to Chile on penalties for the second year in a row so Messi clearly decided it was time to change something.
Mingo, whose hat you just have to admire, also asked the player about his short lived international retirement with the 29 year old saying, "It was how I felt in that moment. Everything came crashing down. I felt like that [final] was the one, given how the team was and how we'd played in the competition. It was a huge disappointment."
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He finished the interview by saying "new hair, don't care!" (That's obviously not true but you can watch the whole interview below, just hope your Spanish is good)
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