SAMANTHA ENSLIN-PAYNE: There's more than one way to score in soccer
Neymar can't be the only player to have a hairdresser on hand
If you are at the top of your game, soccer may just be the industry to break into - and I don't mean as a football player. Among the many things I have wondered about recently, while watching World Cup match after World Cup match, are the haircuts sported by top-class soccer players. Especially my son's beloved Neymar. Does he have his own stylist who travels with him? Who was responsible for the much-maligned spaghetti locks, as they have been called, and later trimmed them? Esquire.com named Neymar's noodle look "the most offensive haircut of the World Cup". But regardless of what the critics say, for those who tend to the hair of iconic soccer players there is big money to be made. In 2015, Neymar spent at least ?2000 a month on his hair. That was according to his hairdresser Wagner Tenorio, as reported by SportsJOE. Since Neymar's eye-wateringly expensive move to Paris Saint-Germain, the cost of his haircuts is likely to have spiked. And it turns out that, yes, Neymar does have ...
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