Eden Hazard was tricked into wearing a Tottenham shirt by a popular hairdresser for footballers, but the Chelsea legend would have none of it.
The retired Belgian was given a haircut by Ahmed Alsanawi, the owner of A Star Barbers, who regularly entrust top Premier League stars with their hair.
Alsanawi is a favorite for the likes of Phil Foden and Jack Grealish and is popular with Chelsea stars due to his proximity to their training ground in Cobham.
He was once nicknamed ‘Chelsea’s official hairdresser’.
Hazard has been visiting the barbers for years but got more than he asked for when Alsanawi placed a Spurs kit on the outside of his cover for his latest haircut.
Eden Hazard was unimpressed when A Star Barbers owner Ahmed Alsanawi draped him in a Tottenham kit
The Chelsea legend shrugged off the white strip as popular hairdresser Alsanawi laughed
However, the 33-year-old quickly recognized the foolishness and exclaimed: ‘bro, what are you doing man?’ before shrugging off the cover as Alsanawi laughed.
Hazard wore a hoodie with the logo of Fini by A Star, a brand of hair care products infused with an Oud scent, for which he is an ambassador.
And the Spurs ruse is unlikely to damage Alsanawi’s reputation as a destination for elite stars with shaggy locks in need of a haircut.
Erling Haaland, Kylian Mbappe, Cesc Fabregas, John Terry, Jude Bellingham, Reece James, Paul Pogba, Diego Costa and even Jose Mourinho have been put at the top of the list by A Star.
Alsanawi told the newspaper last year Mirror about his journey.
“I’ve been in the game for 15, 16 years now,” he said. “I picked up a pair of hair clippers when I was 15 years old… and it’s just over the years [that you meet new clients].
‘If you get one, there’s a snowball effect. Obviously you have to be very good at what you do; you can’t just cut their hair and be friends with them, they have to like their haircut.
‘I deleted all the U21s – like Dom Solanke, Ruben Loftus-Cheek, [Lewis] Baker… Jamal Blackman was in the first-team locker room and he just recommended me to JT [John Terry]. I worked for Chelsea for three years.
‘Every Monday and Thursday I was in the dressing room cutting their hair. It was a great platform for me, cutting Diego [Costa], [Alexandre] Pato, Cesc [Fabregas].
Manchester City star Jack Grealish smiles as he gets a haircut from Alsanawi this summer
Alsanawi provided many English stars ahead of the European Championship, including Phil Foden
Chelsea legend Hazard, 33, hung up his boots in October last year after leaving Real Madrid
‘There were just too many superstars in that dressing room at that time [in a good way]. Even Mourinho, I cut Mourinho’s hair and saw him get fired.’
Hazard hung up his boots in October last year after leaving Real Madrid in the summer of 2023 and later revealed he simply stopped enjoying his football.
He won five league titles during his career with Lille, Chelsea and Real Madrid, as well as a Champions League, two Europa Leagues and numerous domestic trophies.
Individually, he was named PFA Players’ Player of the Year and Premier League Player of the Season during the 2014–15 campaign. His time at Chelsea brought 110 goals and 92 assists in 352 appearances.
However, during a four-season spell at Madrid he suffered 18 separate injuries and scored seven goals in 76 games, a far cry from his brilliant productivity in London and Lille.