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Match officials insisted on altering his hair style on religious grounds ...before he could get on the pitch
This is the moment a footballer in Saudi Arabia was ordered to have a haircut moments before kick off - as part of the kingdom's crackdown on players with 'anti-Islamic' hairstyles.
Waleed Abdullah, a goalkeeper for Al Shabab and Saudi Arabia's national team, was just about to join his team mates when match officials intervened.
The impromptu haircut was part of the kingdom's crackdown on players
with 'anti-Islamic' hairstyles It comes as Saudi sports authorities
stepped up their action against footballer hairstyles deemed to be
un-Islamic in the ultra-conservative kingdomIt comes as Saudi sports
authorities stepped up their action against footballer hairstyles deemed
to be un-Islamic in the ultra-conservative kingdom, local media
reported.Video posted online showed Abdullah player being given a
last-minute haircut before a fixture to comply with Saudi Football
Federation guidelines.The head of the kingdom's youth organisation had
earlier asked its sport federations and Olympic committee to 'ban the
qazaa phenomenon', using an Arabic name for eccentric styles often
sported by footballers, the website Arriyadiyah reported.
Footage shows players and club officials reacting with disbelief as the player's small mohawk was removed with scissors
Footage shows players and club officials reacting with disbelief as the player's small mohawk was removed with scissors
Footage shows players and club officials reacting with disbelief as the player's small mohawk was removed with scissors
Such haircuts are against Islam and Saudi traditions, one commentator wrote in the newspaper Al-Jazirah on Friday.
The article urged the football federation to 'impose sanctions' on offending players whose 'bizarre haircuts are imitated by their fans in schools'.
Saudi Arabia, where many foreign professional footballers play for local teams, applies a rigorous doctrine of Islam known as Wahhabism.
The article urged the football federation to 'impose sanctions' on offending players whose 'bizarre haircuts are imitated by their fans in schools'.
Saudi Arabia, where many foreign professional footballers play for local teams, applies a rigorous doctrine of Islam known as Wahhabism.
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