FC Breakfast: France's in-house barber, Brazil–Netherlands thriller
The home barber of Les Bleus ✂️
It’s one of the juiciest behind-the-scenes stories of this World Cup. Coco Fernandez, a barber in Boston used to cutting the hair of NBA stars, suddenly found himself becoming Les Bleus’ barber after receiving a mysterious WhatsApp message from an unknown number: “Can you cut KM’s hair tonight at 9:30 p.m.?”
After realizing that “KM” meant Kylian Mbappé, Fernandez headed to the France team hotel, where he found the tricolor captain alongside Ousmane Dembélé and Marcus Thuram for a fresh trim.
They hit it off immediately. So much so that Mbappé recommended his new barber to his friend Achraf Hakimi. Since then, Coco Fernandez has also been taking care of the Moroccan national team players, doing fades for both squads. Don’t ask him for his prediction for tonight’s quarter-final!
The group is in great spirits 🇫🇷
A wonderful summer-camp atmosphere continues to reign within the France squad. Even Michael Olise is cracking a few smiles… That says it all!
The quarter-finalists’ World Cup history 📊
Since the Knysna fiasco in 2010, the France team has now reached a fourth straight World Cup quarter-final. Brazil, knocked out by Norway in the round of 16, sees an incredible run of eight consecutive quarter-finals come to an end, a streak dating back to the 1994 World Cup. Finally, Morocco has become the first African nation in history to reach the quarter-finals of two consecutive World Cups.
The fabulous flashback ⏳
While waiting for the World Cup quarter-finals to kick off, let’s dive back into one of the greatest matches in history at this stage of the competition: Brazil–Netherlands in 1994!
TV schedule 📺
10:00 p.m.: France – Morocco (beIN SPORTS 1/M6)
This article was translated into English by Artificial Intelligence. You can read the original version in 🇫🇷 here.
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