What about football & fashion?

This post is about football players and fashion. But calm down: David Beckham is not playing anymore, so no, there will be neither he nor his collection of underwear and pajamas for H&M.

This post is about players and fashion, then. But it does so not exactly in a objective or peculiar way. He does it from a fact: the football players are becoming more and more characters of the pop culture, perhaps as never before. The reason is certainly to find in the development of social media, which allowed the boys always imagined in T-shirts and boots to show their daily lives. And their life is made up of fashion in their own way, of course.

Samir Nasri

Samir Nasri is monopolizing my Instagram time sessions. Immediately after meeting Diplo, he decided to oxygenate his hair, perhaps dazzled by the vision of Mr. Lean On. Nasri's style is what could be called up with the time. He often wears oversized, almost always in black, wearing backwards hats and Yeezy. A true fashion addicted that is not afraid to dare: leather pants, red suede boots and some weeks ago he seemed willing to adopt a koala. Another of his features is what is sporty magazines is called sobriety. In other words, an ostentation of wealth. Then space to: the nex, pools tub of the size of a city, but above all to his house that looks disturbingly like a glittering nightclub. 

Xabi Alonso

The red-hair midfielder of Bayern Monaco and Spain is at odds with Nasri. Xabi is the archetype of elegance: it has a perfectly ordered and cutted hairstyle, at breakfast he has benedict eggs and in almost all of his pictures he can be seen wearing a shirt. Xabi Alonso is the best way to cure the Beckham nostalgia and he's often chosen for advertising campaigns, such as Hugo Boss and Porsche. He loves to attend fashion shows and he seems to have been the only one to benefit from a special VIP pass for the national museum that had been given to the Spain football team after the World Cup victory. He never looks upset in his photos. If he does, he makes little smiles, and has meticulous care of his beard. Always perfect, old-fashioned, but addicted. Xabi Alonso is as close as there is elegance in football today.

Panagiotis Kone

Even Buzzfeed cares about Panagiotis Kone. It is strange for a man who spent a career in the Italian provinces and Greece. The peculiarity of Kone, however, seems to be his beauty. The top right, the right greek, Panagiotis has, according to Buzzfeed, the perfect look suitable for a bartender in Brooklyn. If you take it the right way, is a good thing. He has a lot of tattoos, including two swallows on his chest, a written "Libertad" just below, two wings on the abdominal side and a padlock that I'm not too sure I want to know where it ends. More than a Brooklyn bartender he seems to have the look of a biker. A cool one, kind of Jax Teller Sons of Anarchy. In fact, I think he has seen it, because Kone also brings a goatee like him, shorter hair, but pulled back the same way. In a photo he wears a leather jacket. If Xabi is elegant, Panagiotis is definitely cool.

Pabl Daniel Osvaldo 

I wonder if Pablo really believes it, to be a kind of a rock star I mean. He live as if he is, he dresses the same way. I saw his looks switch from cool to unpresentable more times than Fernando Torres changd haircut in his career. He loves strange glasses: from the John Lennon arrival at Juventus, the Tom Ford era with the tail and goatee. The latest idea seems to be the one à la Johnny Depp, with little short hair, unkempt, as they go now. T- shirt chapter: the t-shirts of Danistone25 (this is how he is called on Twitter) always portray Kurt Cobain or The Rolling Stones. When these two characters are missing, guitars come out. 

Ásgeir Börkur

Asgeir is one of those types of players become "famous" even before you knew their role on the field. To be honest, I can't tell you what his skills on the field are. It doesn't matter, anyway. Presumably, however, everyone has seen at least a photo of him: he's blond, Icelandic and has an incredible long beard  for a footballer. I think he's a nice guy, even though it is objectively difficult to say. His Instagram account is private, perhaps because of the reputation that the web has created around him suddenly, and the unique personal photos about him you can find are the ones on Twitter. He always wears a wool cap, often checkered shirts. He is, to make it short, one of those guys we'd like to call with that word beginning with h and ending in r. Once he wore a splendid double-breasted jacket. It was cool.