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<h1><span style="color:#092b04;"><span style="color:#2b0904;"><em>Match officials insisted on altering his hair style on religious grounds &#8230;before he could get on the pitch</em></span><br />
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<li id="ext-gen148" class=""><span style="color:#092b04;"><strong>National team goalkeeper, Waleed Abdullah was given an impromptu haircut moments before kick-off of intn&#8217;l<br />
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<li class=""><span style="color:#092b04;"><strong>Footage shows match officials using scissors to remove his small mohawk</strong></span></li>
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<p>Saudi sports bosses are clamping down on hairstyles seen as un-Islamic<br />
This is the moment a footballer in Saudi Arabia was ordered to have a haircut moments before kick off &#8211; as part of the kingdom&#8217;s crackdown on players with &#8216;anti-Islamic&#8217; hairstyles.<br />
Waleed Abdullah, a goalkeeper for Al Shabab and Saudi Arabia&#8217;s national team, was just about to join his team mates when match officials intervened.</p>
<h5><strong><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-7200" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/330ea56d00000578-0-image-a-3_1460370066233.jpg" alt="330ea56d00000578-0-image-a-3_1460370066233" width="634" height="363" /></strong><br />
<strong>Pictures captured the moment a footballer in Saudi Arabia was ordered to have a haircut by the side of the pitch</strong></h5>
<p>Footage shows players and club officials reacting with disbelief as the player&#8217;s small mohawk was removed with scissors. Pictures captured the moment the Sadi national team goalkeeper was ordered to have a haircut by the side of the pitch.</p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-7197" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/330e22fb00000578-0-image-a-1_1460369138926.jpg" alt="330e22fb00000578-0-image-a-1_1460369138926" width="634" height="374" /></p>
<h5>The impromptu haircut was part of the kingdom&#8217;s crackdown on players with &#8216;anti-Islamic&#8217; hairstyles<br />
It comes as Saudi sports authorities stepped up their action against footballer hairstyles deemed to be un-Islamic in the ultra-conservative kingdom<br />
<strong><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-7206" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/330ea53d00000578-0-image-a-6_1460370513682.jpg" alt="330ea53d00000578-0-image-a-6_1460370513682" width="634" height="362" /></strong><br />
<strong>Footage shows players and club officials reacting with disbelief as the player&#8217;s small mohawk was removed with scissors</strong></h5>
<p>The impromptu haircut was part of the kingdom&#8217;s crackdown on players with &#8216;anti-Islamic&#8217; hairstyles It comes as Saudi sports authorities stepped up their action against footballer hairstyles deemed to be un-Islamic in the ultra-conservative kingdomIt comes as Saudi sports authorities stepped up their action against footballer hairstyles deemed to be un-Islamic in the ultra-conservative kingdom, local media reported.Video posted online showed Abdullah player being given a last-minute haircut before a fixture to comply with Saudi Football Federation guidelines.The head of the kingdom&#8217;s youth organisation had earlier asked its sport federations and Olympic committee to &#8216;ban the qazaa phenomenon&#8217;, using an Arabic name for eccentric styles often sported by footballers, the website Arriyadiyah reported.<br />
Footage shows players and club officials reacting with disbelief as the player&#8217;s small mohawk was removed with scissors</p>
<h5><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-7204" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/330ea55500000578-0-image-a-7_1460370519598.jpg" alt="330ea55500000578-0-image-a-7_1460370519598" width="634" height="353" />Footage shows players and club officials reacting with disbelief as the player&#8217;s small mohawk was removed with scissors</h5>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-7208" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/330ea54d00000578-0-image-a-8_1460370691749.jpg" alt="330ea54d00000578-0-image-a-8_1460370691749" width="634" height="362" /><br />
<strong>Video posted online showed Abdullah player being given a last-minute haircut before a fixture to comply with Saudi Football Federation guidelines</strong></p>
<h5><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-7210" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/330ea56100000578-0-image-a-9_1460370693287.jpg" alt="330ea56100000578-0-image-a-9_1460370693287" width="634" height="369" /><strong>Fellow players looked bewildered as the footballer was being given a haircut by the side of the pitch</strong></h5>
<h5><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-7212" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/330eae2800000578-0-image-a-2_1460369141488.jpg" alt="330eae2800000578-0-image-a-2_1460369141488" width="634" height="454" /><strong>Waleed Abdullah is pictured in action during an International Friendly match between Saudi Arabia and Australia in 2014</strong></h5>
<p>Such haircuts are against Islam and Saudi traditions, one commentator wrote in the newspaper Al-Jazirah on Friday.<br />
The article urged the football federation to &#8216;impose sanctions&#8217; on offending players whose &#8216;bizarre haircuts are imitated by their fans in schools&#8217;.<br />
Saudi Arabia, where many foreign professional footballers play for local teams, applies a rigorous doctrine of Islam known as Wahhabism.</p>
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