Nadia Bilchik Talking about Diverse Hairstyles of World Cup Players
PAUL: So, team USA as you know, is facing one of its toughest matches yet, Portugal tonight. And if they can bring home a win it's almost guaranteed they are going to get a spot in the quarterfinals.</s>BLACKWELL: However, you know, some of the most memorable World Cup moments are not those of the players' moves. I mean, because some of the points are amazing.</s>PAUL: Sure.</s>BLACKWELL: But rather, these hair and style choices of the players.</s>PAUL: CNN editorial producer Nadia Bilchik is here with some of the best World Cup styles, do we say the best? Do we say --</s>NADIA BILCHIK, CNN EDITORIAL PRODUCER: We can say the most interesting.</s>BLACKWELL: Yes.</s>BILCHIK: Most riveting - let's start with Ermin Bicakcic, and, of course, he sports a hair to called the pompadour. Pompadour. You might have seen David Beckham sporting the same hair style. So, of course, it's higher on top, short on sides. And then we move on to Raul Meireles from Portugal. So, we might see Meireles this afternoon playing. And he has the mohawk.</s>BLACKWELL: That's a commitments.</s>BILCHIK: We spoke about that, if you can't get a mohawk you might want to try a fohawk.</s>BLACKWELL: Yeah, try that.</s>BILCHIK: And then we have Bacary Sagna, and he's from France. And he has the very famous blond braids. Now, of course, the braids blondes are artificial so they must be quite heavy. Also you have to burn the end of the braid to fuse it with the other hair so that's quite a process too. And then we have Marouane Fellaini, and he had that big bold beautiful hair. He does say he keeps it trimmed.</s>PAUL: Really?</s>BILCHIK: He also says the reason he does that is that if it's wet he can't see the ball. He's tried being bald, he's tried so bad, and then we have Kyle Beckham and dread locks inspired by the one and only Bob Marley.</s>PAUL: Yeah.</s>BILCHIK: And you know that having dreads like that takes maintenance.</s>BLACKWELL: Yes. It's a statement. It's a cultural statement.</s>BILCHIK: That's right. As you say it's more than a hairstyle. It's a lifestyle, and Cristiano Ronaldi, think about Monday morning if he plays tonight, there will be lots of little boys asking for a Cristiano hair style, please. If they are not already.</s>BLACKWELL: I think I could rock that. What do you think?</s>PAUL: You could.</s>BLACKWELL: Just on the side.</s>PAUL: Yeah, because I mean, you are not a bald man.</s>BLACKWELL: No, I'm getting there, I'm getting close, though.</s>BILCHIK: You are watching the World Cup going, the bodies have got better, right? It's just that the shirts have got tighter.</s>PAUL: Is that what it is.</s>BILCHIK: Hugo says, the tighter the shirt, the more it looks like a leotard. They even say it has health benefits. In fact, it boosts energy to the muscle is a puma claim with the very, very tight shirt.</s>PAUL: Really?</s>BILCHIK: So we'll see what team USA wears this afternoon.</s>PAUL: Yes, lots of people will be watching it. We do not know exactly what everybody's motive is.</s>BILCHIK: Uniform that got dry fit technology. Which they need in the humidity.</s>BLACKWELL: Yes.</s>BILCHIK: Humidity and the hot.</s>PAUL: Thank you, Nadia. How much we appreciate it. Already, we've got to turn to some serious stuff here because this morning ISIS militants, we've learned are four towns now closer to Baghdad. As the most prominent