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19th February 2017
12:08pm GMT

It turns out Ronaldo had a perfectly valid reason for the strange do. As he explained to ESPN Brazil, distraction was his main goal.
He was harbouring a knock heading into the competition and to draw the focus away from the worrying injury, he got out his razor.
“My groin was hurting. I was only at 60%. So I shaved my head." “Everybody was only talking about my injury. When I arrived in training with this haircut everybody stopped talking about the injury.”Can't argue with that logic and his performances did not suffer because of it. Ronaldo fired home an impressive eight goals in the 2002 World Cup and what's more impressive is, he managed to be one of only two players to score on the great Oliver Kahn. The other being, Robbie Keane, of course.
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