世界杯球员发型大盘点

The shaggy manes and bushy moustaches of soccer days past have been replaced by bleached¹ beards, "city boy" crops and headbands at the World Cup in South Africa.

在本届南非世界杯的赛场上，你再也看不见球员们蓬乱的头发和浓密的胡须，取而代之的是白胡子、“潮男”短发和束发带。

 Players’ hairdos（发型） are a perennial²（常年的，反复的） talking point at soccer's biggest spectacle（景象，奇观） and players face razor-sharp scrutiny³（监视） -- right down to their shaving routines.

Brazil's Robinho has been sporting a new-look beard at the tournament and bloggers back home have launched an online campaign urging the baby-faced forward to visit the barber's.

"Ugly face, beautiful game -- God willing," Robinho, 26, told reporters last week, laughing off suggestions he grew the beard in a bid to frighten opponents（对手） . "I just forgot to shave," he said.

Meanwhile, at the camp of South American rivals Argentina, the new greying beard worn by Diego Maradona is being seen as a symbol of a more serene⁴（平静，晴朗） , mature air in the squad⁵（班，小队） that seems to be bearing fruit on the pitch.

Maradona, nicknamed El Pelusa (Fuzzy) for the voluminous（大量的，多卷的） hairdo of his 1980s playing heyday⁶, grew the beard because he could not shave after his pet dog bit him in the face, but it looks like becoming a permanent fixture⁷.

As far as footballers' haircuts go, award-winning British hairdresser Mark Woolley said they have got more conservative and sophisticated of late.

The famously clean-cut Cristiano Ronaldo has become one of the sport's leading style icons⁸ and Spain's Fernando Torres recently chopped off his highlighted locks, opting⁹ for a discreet¹⁰（谨慎的，小心的） crop.

But not all the game's protagonists¹¹（主角，主演） seem ready to look like office workers.

France's tattooed¹² marksman（神射手） Djibril Cisse raised eyebrows¹³ in South Africa with his trademark¹⁴ bleached beard, a trend also embraced by veteran Cameroon defender¹⁵ Rigobert Song, who teamed it with lionesque（如狮的） dreadlocks.

Aesthetics¹⁶ aside, footballers' hair is sometimes motivated more by superstition¹⁷（迷信） than fashion.

The entire Romanian squad dyed their hair blond as a lucky charm at the 1998 World Cup and Spanish media have speculated that goalkeeper Iker Casillas shaved off his beard after the team's opening loss against Switzerland in a bid to reverse their fortunes.

So far it seems to be working. Spain won their two subsequent games to finish top of their group.