{"id":7225,"date":"2026-08-23T18:55:18","date_gmt":"2026-08-23T18:55:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/?p=7225"},"modified":"2026-08-23T18:55:18","modified_gmt":"2026-08-23T18:55:18","slug":"erling-haaland-opens-premier-league-season-with-new-buzz-cut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/?p=7225","title":{"rendered":"Erling Haaland Opens Premier League Season With New Buzz Cut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"subnav-title ff-ffc bold fs-23 lh-25 uc pd-b-10\">\n            BROWSE BY\n          <\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-0a453225>Erling Haaland&#8217;s famed flowing locks are no more.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-0a453225>The Manchester City superstar has a new hairstyle for the new Premier League season: A buzz cut that went viral on social media on Sunday ahead of the team&#8217;s opening match against Bournemouth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-0a453225>It didn&#8217;t help him. The Norway striker missed a couple of great chances in City&#8217;s 2-1 win at Etihad Stadium.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-0a453225>Haaland has become one of the most easily distinguishable sport stars in recent years because of his long hair.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-0a453225>In a video on Haaland&#8217;s YouTube channel, Zlatan Ibrahimovic asked if the City striker had &#8220;lost a bet&#8221; when he was shown the new hairstyle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-0a453225>&#8220;You gonna be faster now, or what?&#8221; Ibrahimovic said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-0a453225>Former City manager Pep Guardiola reacted to the haircut by saying: &#8220;You&#8217;re lucky to have hair. I would love to have it!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-0a453225>Haaland arrived at Etihad Stadium for the Bournemouth game wearing a cap, but that had been removed for the warmup \u2014 revealing the buzz cut.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-0a453225><i>Reporting by The Associated Press.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BROWSE BY Erling Haaland&#8217;s famed flowing locks are no more. The Manchester City superstar has a new hairstyle for the new Premier League season: A buzz cut that went viral on social media on Sunday ahead of the team&#8217;s opening match against Bournemouth. It didn&#8217;t help him. The Norway striker missed a couple of great [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":7224,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-soccer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7225\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}