REMALONE @ipasa.bsky.social · 11h I have to admit that I didn’t know, and I even thought the Spanish player Cucurella’s look was quite original, when it comes to his hair, but I was unaware of this: If he let his hair grow , it’s so that his autistic son can easily recognize him when he watches him on TV. Truly, this Spanish team ❤️
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How friggin amazing is that??!!!!👍👍❤️😲
My hair looked just like his 50+ years ago on field hockey field! Go bro!
Idk anything about soccer ⚽️ but this man is beautiful 😍 🙌
I liked him from his BHA days. I was sad to see him go to Chelsea. Keep these "feel good" stories coming. It's nice to know there are good people out there.
I wish I had hair like that!
That’s beautiful!
So cool.
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Not only a great Soccer player but an outstanding Dad!
Love these guys! 🇪🇸🇪🇸
When I let my hair grow: GIRL! FAG!
This brought tears to read this. What a cool dad!!
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Love that for him! Beautiful!
Wonderful
Yeah people contain multitudes , dirty whiny , divey defenders can also be kind sweet loving fathers.
Talk about amazing Dad Love! Beautiful ♥️
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Seen here with the coveted, and well earned "Best Dad in the Tournament" trophy. 👏👏♥️
Aww, that’s lovely.
Now I feel like a total heel for dissing him. Thanks knowledge is power 🤗
Shitty player don't care about the hair.
That's a GOOD DAD. a GOOD MAN
That's nice, but I think it's something more. It's a father's undying love for his child who will do anything for that child. What an awesome Dad!
Hero 🦸
As a mother to autistic children, this made me cry. I love this. ❤️❤️
I'm not surprised. Spain has struck me as one of the more empathetic and compassionate countries in the EU.
Look at him, trying to eat the chocolate before removing the foil wrapping. 🤣
THAT is a MAN.
Plus Spain has the best jazz education school in the world.
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Sheesh, it takes an honorable ‘excusable’ reason to get some people to finally back off ragging on someone’s beautiful, curly, natural hair.
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Now, that is priceless.❤️❤️
He looks like Bruno from Encanto and I love it 🥰
I already liked him. How completely lovely.
Makes me love him even more now. He's a very thoughtful and creative, and talented dad.
Weird Al won the World Cup.
🥹 I'm not crying, you're . . . OK, I'm crying.
I love this! He is a snack too. He should be in a #hair conditioner commercial with his son too.
This is indeed wholesome!
That statue looks like a gold foiled wrapped chocolate Easter egg.....
Truly a beautiful story. ✨
Aw, that's nice. Now I feel bad about the Roseanne Rosannadana jokes
I didn't know this about him. What a lovely idea.
I have rooted for him (when he played for Brighton and against him (when he played for Chelsea) … this I did not know.
I too, am autistic and recognize people by hair first!
Wasn't aware of that, but it is fantastic. I sort of grew to admire his skills, as well. This from a guy who fell in love with the game after watching the 1966 England victory.
Awwwwwww 💕
What a GOOD Daddy💕!
The way he kisses that ovary makes me uncomfortable.
So sweet
Eeeew! He's kissing the thing after Thump touched it....
How things have changed. For the better!!! When my oldest brother was born with autism in 1950 no one even knew the term in the US (medicine is shockingly slow to embrace new stuff). Experts recommended my parents put him in an institution, forget about him, move on with their lives.
Sorry, but the trophy is ugly as hell, and I now understand why that fake sf trump FIFA Peace Prize is uglier.
I love Spain even more now than I already do. There's no end. This country amazes me every single day.
i also have autism with face blindness. So yeah, things like the hair *does* work. Turns "I see 11 football players" into "there's 10 players and dad"
I didn't know that, and to think he gets stick because of his hair, needs to be wider known in the uk
Love that ❤️
Lovely story but fake
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My name is Cucurella… Marc Cucurella. Prepare to be scored upon!
Vamos
Aw ❤️
I love his hair. What a great story it is attached too. 🥰
Nice, but not quite true. It was the footballer's mother who suggested he let his hair grow when he was younger to distinguish him from the other kids playing football. He tells the same story in different interviews. It might also help his son recognize him. www.vozpopuli.com/dolcevita/as...
The best men won!
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I wonder if he’s teaching his autistic son how to be a racist?
Precious
The more we learn about Spain's players the more we love them ❤️💛❤️💯🌍
Good player, however, unfortunately dirty and a massive actor. He’ll get away with everything in Madrid though!
Going to miss him on the pitch for the Blues
Weird, I saw a story about him last week that said his mom would not let him cut his hair since he was a boy, so she could find him. The same story mentioned his first question to his club offers is regarding schools for his son. But I am not a soccer fan so I don't know. The web is full of BS now.
Nope. Not true. Well, partially. No autistic son involved though. www.infobae.com/espana/2026/...
Also another one of the Spanish players
Didn’t much care for his Chelsea-ness. But his excellent, classy World Cup moved the needle for me. This information has now pushed it to a full 180°. I’m a fan.
That’s very sweet. Doesn’t change the fact that he’s a dirty, diving player. But that’s very sweet.
Made me cry
That is awesome, what a great dad.
Thank you. This has completely transformed my view of Cucurella.
It is genuinely fascinating how anti-scumbag the Spanish players are compared to the scumbaggery of the Argentine players
I'm glad he has a good relationship with his son. He's also a very talented footballer. However, as a player, he's a dirty, diving, shithouse of a player. He'd fit right in with that Argentina team. I'm sure they love their kids too
He looks like a Renaissance painting of a Spanish courtier…just put him in a ruff and silk
Now that is parental love!❤️
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I think that is the sweetest reason for growing wild curls(mine are but SHORT) I have ever heard. And the most practical. Love-works.➿❤️😻
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But it started with Cucurella’s mom, she let his hair grow when he was a kid, that way she could identify him easily from the rest of the children when he was playing . And he’s doing the same for his son.
And this is exactly how the world saw him!! lol 🤡🙏🏾🇺🇸
I’m a Manchester city fan, and not a Chelsea fan. However, I was a Spain fan from the start. I have a new admiration and respect for this young man! And, the entire Spain team is nothing but class!
The Spanish team are a class act, in more ways than one.
I'm going to miss watching Cucurella play for Chelsea next season, and it yes, it was easy to spot him on the pitch...my grandson said he reminded him of Alex the Lion from the "Madagascar" films:
Parents of autistic children will absolutely get this gesture and love it. 😍
♪ La cucaracha, la cucaracha ♫
As someone with faceblindness I really do appreciate distinct hairstyles.
Happy birthday to Marc Cucurella 🎂🎉
❤️Love will always win.
That's a decent human being.
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I didn’t know this player either but recognized his was very good. I kept yelling at the TV to pass to the bushy hair guy! He was easy to spot!! Now, this just is very touching that he does this. And great Dad move. Congrats to the good guys 🏆
That trophy looks remarkably like foil-wrapped chocolate.
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This has always been my theory about footballer's haircuts - they vary so wildly so each player is more easily spotted when they are a tiny dot in the distance.
Yuck! Kissing trophy handled by felon's turd stained hands.
I'm afraid this is an urban legend.
Class, skill and heart.
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He had (almost) the same haircut before he had his first son. At the time it helped his mum to recognise him on the pitch; later it helped his son. Slightly different story; similarly remarkable.
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Thought he was going after a giant piece of chocolate wrapped in foil at first glance.
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True love.
I want you move to Spain.
Damn, kinda made misty. What an awesome dad!
As if winning the World Cup wasn't enough to make you respect or even love Spaniards. 🙏
Similar to Hamilton and the yellow helmet, then. Very cool. Big respect.
Spaniards are so… decent. Every time I’m there on vacation, even in the big cities, you are always treated with respect. They help out when you have crying children on the bus and so on. We Swedes have lost little bit of that: the respect and the willingness to help each other in everyday life.
And he can’t speak about his son without starting to cry. So much love.
I loved his look before I knew this and now I love it even more. Reminded me of 70s soccer.
hey wait up I’m rocking the same natural hair (except mine is all gray now!)
Now that is true fatherly love.
Cucurella 😍❤️
He's in Real Madrid now! We are very Happy.
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Seems like everyone is better than us.
Shame Cucurella is such an arsehole, he must be every fanbases most hated player.
That is so sweet! Isn't it great when the good guys win?
He's a diver and a dirty player. Glad he's a good Dad though
Spain has become a really good example of how well social democracy works. Here in Austria we have the conservatives governing for years, and their incompetence has resulted in a degraded social democracy. But somehow those lying POSs manage to shift the blame to social programs and migrants.
I thought he was the doppelganger of former Washington Capitals goalie Hunter Shepard.
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Cucurella is a truly worthwhile person. A father who loves his son.
Wow! Very interesting. In here I kept thinking (as an old grandma), “Oh honey, get your hair off your neck!” 😞
Idolatry...
Wow
As a retired special education teacher, I used to figure out ways to help my students navigate the world more easily. This is a genius move--free and constructive. Congratulations to Marc Cucurella for finding an easy and effective way to help his son overcome differences and difficulties.
I've seen him mature in his play in la Liga and now I like him more for this.
.. and that reason alone is beautiful!! Bless them both…
Not my favorite player but I really love that!
It doesn't seem to let the refs spot his fouls, dives & sneaky punches though. 🤷♂️
Love this.
I thought Americans would stop posting nonsense about football once the World Cup ended. Can we please have the usual 4 year pause from this? 😭😭
The art of being a parent
Thanks RE...Good people in soccer and all athletics...too bad we only have access to the kinesis side...
And he is such a good player too!
He's dirty, but the way he rampages forward and still manages to strangle attacks is amazing, Ashley Cole like. He's that guy you bitch about unless he plays for your team, and he doesn't play for my team. Respect, Congratulations on the WC, and great to see his humanity.
plus, honors to a GREAT county. Argentina? Not so much under its current regime
That is so sweet.
Bizarrely I did not know that so thank you 👍
He is sniffing to see what the chocolate smells like this year.
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Why does he look like that one painting of Ivan the terrible?
I love his hair! Wish mine was that nice.
What a wonderful Daddy and Man.
I'm 78 years old, and I am beginning to understand that we should let people be people so we can recognize who the bad ones really are.
Love Cucurella as a player. Watched him many times playing with Chelsea (hard to say as a Leeds fan), but every time I see him, first thought, Sideshow Bob.
Magnifico ❤️❤️❤️
Maybe but he’s a dirty troll
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What a great dad.
@miscellaneous.bsky.social olha isso
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here we have a good person
shit like this is why i’ll never let nihilism and hatred for our own kind to kick in. there is genuine good in humanity, even if you have to look deep for it it sometimes
I always hated on him at Chelsea for that hair before I TIL. Okay, Marc, you get a pass and a big 👍💙
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Love this kid! That is so sweet! I do the same thing with my hair for my autistic daughter. 💙
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Dammit. The contrast between teams is getting more vast. Meanwhile, Argentina fans insult black folks.
The phrase "walk a mile in my shoes" needs to make a comeback. There are so many families around the world who are raising children with autism spectrum challenges. In the US, instead of being supportive, we have RFK Jr. spending millions to validate "his belief" that vaccines are the problem.
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Love this!! Real men care about their kids.
True
Cucurella has had this style forever, so his family could recognize him. Seems like a great guy, ¿que no? But he is a thug on the pitch. A dyed-in-the-wool jerk, who injures other players, then laughs his smartass laugh, and carries on. Beware lionizing sports figures.
Did not know that. Sweet!
this guys is really easy to spot
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Nice story but he's still a dirty cheating little rat when he plays for Chelsea. #lufc
that's beautiful, but also a reminder that we often don't think about the little things that make a big difference to people with autism
I favor help for others who need the extra ability to focus and learn how to be happy
Cucurella ♥️
I love ❤️ that!
i travel in Spain ❤️ in my youth i arrived in a small rural town one day the town seemed deserted...but, it wasn't siesta...? then the place exploded-in what sounded like a stadium cheer Spain just scored a goal...and everyone at home or in a bar was listening to the match...called on the radio