Lionel Messi Explains Why He Dyed His Hair Blonde

Lionel Messi has finally revealed why he dramatically switched his look and bleached his hair this summer. The Barcelona star was first spotted with his new hair do in late July, turning heads with a platinum blonde look after his partner Antonella Roccuzzo posted an Instagram picture of the transformed star.

And after returning to his home country and appearing on Argentine television, Messi addressed the question of why he’d decided to ditch his usual brown locks.

“I made a change to start from zero,” he said.

“I was emerging from a lot of controversies, of things that had happened to me and I said to myself: ‘You’ve got to break this and start again.’”