World Cup Hairdo of the Day: Steve McManaman, ESPN

Holy shit stop the fight! How about our boy Mac just embarrassing every single player in this tournament with this ridiculous lettuce. Should we just stop doing this now? There's no chance we find a mane more majestic than this. Imagine if your Christiano Ronaldo running around with your $500 salon haircut with lightning bolts and spinning rims and all that shit, and you turn on the TV to catch the highlights and just get absolutely emasculated by Stevie over here. Just brutal.


PS: To be fair, he does sit next to Mike Tirico all day. That might tip the scales a bit in his favor...

World Cup Hairdo of the Day: Paul Pogba, France

Wow look at this guy. What an absolute train wreck on this dude's head. Don't even know where to start there's so much going on up there. Half a fauxhawk with a gold streak and lines shaved into the side of his head and the other half is a buzz cut. Just trying wayyyyy to hard here to keep up with some of the other big league hairdo's in this tournament. I guess that's to be expected from a bench player for France though right? I don't know. What I do know, is that he and his team are putting a beat down on Switzerland right now. No mercy. Literally made it 5-0 as I'm typing. 

PS: France could probably have taken a little off the collar on those shirts don't ya think? Cant tell if they're playing soccer, or eating a Maine lobster...

World Cup Hairdo of the Day: Arturo Vidal, Chile

Not a whole lot to say here. Pretty obvious why I went with our boy Vidal today. I was fortunate enough to catch a lot of the Spain v. Chile game today and this guy stole the show for sure. This is your typical soccer tough guy / gang member crop. Now apparently this dude is a pretty solid player so maybe that means he can rock it without taking a lot of shit from other players, but from the outside he just looks like an asshole. Not even gonna go into the pencil goatee and the eyebrow cuts. Just icing on the douche bag cake.


PS: Are all the American Spain bandwagonners the World Cup equivalent of Heat fans? I think so. Rough week for those people.

World Cup Hairdo of the Day: Gabriel Paletta, Italy

This is Italian defender Gabriel Paletta. Dude is only 28 years old but apparently no one told his hair. This is a bad look if you're 50+, but being just shy of 30 I gotta believe you cut your losses and shave your head. No one wants to be bald. Especially not at a young age. I get that. But at a certain point you just have to look in the mirror and realize that the the comb over just doesn't cut it anymore. Let it go, Gabriel. Either shave that abomination, or see if you can borrow a little from your boy Andrea Pirlo...

...cause this dude is drowning in it. Just throwing that insane flow right in Paletta's face for 90 minutes every match. Can't be easy for Gabe to hang around this dude and his ridiculous mane all the time while he walks around looking like someone who isn't allowed within 100 yards of a school. But I guess that's life.
Let's just hope this dude can find a decent barber in Rio cause that crop is hard to look at.

World Cup Hairdo of the Day: Samuel Eto'o, Cameroon

Let me start by saying that I had to Google this dude's life story to make sure that he didn't have like brain cancer or some weird deformity. Nope, that's his hair, not a lumpy skull. Our boy is cancer-free and that means he's fair game.

Not sure what Sammy was goin for here. Kinda looks like Will.I.Am from the cover of #willpower, right?

And we all know how well that do worked for him...

PS: There's a lot going on on those Cameroon jerseys... probably not gonna be seen by 90% of World Cup viewers, but you gotta respect the steez game. B+