History of dreadlocks in football - From Gullit to Camavinga, sometimes an haircut describe a personality

For a footballer, the pitch is a place like any other to show his personality. Perhaps it is no longer the most important, now replaced by social media, but it still remains the best option for circulating his image throughout the world without working very hard. This is the reason why, taking care of your look remains an integral part of preparing for a match: some footballers do not pay too much attention to appearances while there are some footballers who really care, with particular attention to their hair. In this sense, football is not exactly the sport with which we immediately associate the image of dreadlocks despite history has offered us several examples, and each one tells us a different story.

Ruud Gullit - The pioneer

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Let's go back to our starting point. The desire to feel cool, to go beyond football and express one's personality through the hairstyle. The face of this current is undoubtedly Rafael Leao and his fine dreadlocks that sway with him every time he sets off at full speed in the open. The Milan striker is not the only example.

Edoardo Camavinga perfectly matches his dreads to Real Madrid's iconic camiseta blanca, the same happens at Barcelona with Jules Koundé and at Manchester City with Nathan Aké. In Serie A there are Zambo Anguissa and Moise Kean. In Bundesliga there is Kevin Mbabu. All modern reinterpretations of one of the oldest hairstyles in human history that give us a moral: dreadlocks are once again a thing in football. Whether it's for fashion or a tribute to one's origins, it does not matter.