{"id":371642,"date":"2026-07-13T21:29:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T21:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/371642\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T21:29:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T21:29:09","slug":"dallas-barber-cuts-hair-for-spain-france-players-ahead-of-semifinal-showdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/371642\/","title":{"rendered":"Dallas barber cuts hair for Spain, France players ahead of semifinal showdown"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">DALLAS &#8211; A Dallas barber has been making sure Spain&#8217;s national team&#8217;s hair looks good during their current World Cup run, and his talents have been noticed by France&#8217;s team as well.<\/p>\n<p>   Dallas barber cuts Spain players&#8217; hair <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KDFW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What they&#8217;re saying:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">&#8220;You miss 100% of the opportunities you don&#8217;t take.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Dallas-based barber Bryan Guardado has been cutting the hair of Spain players throughout their World Cup run.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">22-year-old Guardado says he made the connection when Spanish superstar Lamine Yamal was in North Texas for a match with Barcelona, his professional club.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The barber says he messaged several players on Barcelona, offering up his services. Yamal, then 15, was the only one who responded.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">&#8220;He was the one to reply.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Flash forward to 2026, and Yamal remembered Guardado&#8217;s talents. He asked for Guardado to cut Spain&#8217;s hair throughout the tournament, including when La Roja played a knockout stage match at Dallas Stadium last Monday.<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/dallasbarberspain.jpg\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"auto\" width=\"932\" height=\"524\" data-v-2fe2fe3e=\"\"\/>  <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">&#8220;Ever since they arrived for the World Cup, he was the one to reach out to me, if I was to follow him throughout the World Cup,&#8221; Guardado tells FOX 4&#8217;s Steven Dial.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Guardado cut Spain&#8217;s hair today ahead of their match with France in a World Cup semifinal match at Dallas Stadium on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">France will also have their hair cut by Guardado before the match; Lucas Digne from Les Bleus reached out to him after seeing social media clips of his haircuts for Spain, and asked him to do the same for France.<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/s-steven-spain-france-local-barber-4p_00.00.47.24.jpg\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"auto\" width=\"932\" height=\"524\" data-v-2fe2fe3e=\"\"\/>  <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">He says his father inspired his love of soccer. Even though he&#8217;s a Real Madrid fan, Yamal and Barcelona&#8217;s biggest rivals, he relishes his own part in Spain&#8217;s World Cup story.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">&#8220;If I would have never done that back then, I would&#8217;ve never had this opportunity now,&#8221; Guardado continued. &#8220;That&#8217;s why I tell people to just shoot your shot, man.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KDFW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What&#8217;s next:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Spain and France will clash at Dallas Stadium tomorrow, July 14, at 2 p.m. CT for a spot in the World Cup final this coming Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Information in this story comes from an interview with Bryan Guardado and the FIFA World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/world-cup\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FIFA World Cup<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DALLAS &#8211; A Dallas barber has been making sure Spain&#8217;s national team&#8217;s hair looks good during their current&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":371643,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,104,103,223,3692],"class_list":["post-371642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-news","tag-world-cup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=371642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371642\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/371643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}