{"id":578558,"date":"2026-08-24T06:56:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T06:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/578558\/"},"modified":"2026-08-24T06:56:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T06:56:10","slug":"norways-star-striker-erling-haaland-gets-a-buzz-cut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/578558\/","title":{"rendered":"Norway’s star striker Erling Haaland gets a buzz cut"},"content":{"rendered":"

Manchester City striker Erling Haaland’s blonde locks turned heads in the world of football, and now they’re gone. <\/p>\n

Haaland, 26, announced on his social media he had decided to shed his hair, headlining his YouTube video, “New Season, New Hair”.<\/p>\n

He said in the video, “This beautiful blonde hair…time to let it go.”<\/p>\n

As his side begins the new Premier League season, Haaland joked to friend and former Swedish player Zlatan Ibrahimovic that he was hoping the buzz cut would make him faster.<\/p>\n

“I can’t wait for the fans to see,” he said. <\/p>\n

\"ERLING<\/p>\n

ERLING HAALAND GET A BUZZ CUT FOR THE UPCOMING PREMIER LEAGUE SEASON. (Source: Getty)<\/p>\n

He received mixed reactions from his friends, in video calls with team-mate Jack Grealish, Oasis’ Noel Gallagher and former manager Pep Guardiola. <\/p>\n

“You look about 10 years old,” said Grealish. <\/p>\n

“I can’t stop looking at the front of your hair. I love it.”<\/p>\n

Gallagher said he “loved” the cut and “change is good.”<\/p>\n

Before calling Ibrahimovic, Haaland said he had been told by the former Sweden player to never cut his long hair. <\/p>\n

Ibrahimovic was shocked when he saw the buzz cut. <\/p>\n

“What did you do? You lost a bet or what?” he said. <\/p>\n

However, Haaland admitted it felt weird to have his hair gone but he had, “No regrets, never.”<\/p>\n

City won their opening match of the new campaign with two late goals in a 2-1 win over Bournmouth, with Haaland’s new do unable to inspire him to find the back of the net. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Manchester City striker Erling Haaland’s blonde locks turned heads in the world of football, and now they’re gone.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":578559,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[2966,111,139,69,97379,213],"class_list":["post-578558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-fifa-world-cup","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-sport-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=578558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578558\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/578559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=578558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=578558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=578558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}