{"id":5225,"date":"2022-11-28T11:47:24","date_gmt":"2022-11-28T16:47:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/?p=5225"},"modified":"2022-11-28T11:47:27","modified_gmt":"2022-11-28T16:47:27","slug":"retired-brantford-hairdressers-love-of-the-game-goes-back-to-his-childhood-in-italy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/2022\/11\/28\/retired-brantford-hairdressers-love-of-the-game-goes-back-to-his-childhood-in-italy\/","title":{"rendered":"Retired Brantford hairdresser\u2019s love of the game goes back to his childhood in Italy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Toronto Star – In the spring of 1986, the last and only other time Canada qualified for the\u00a0World Cup<\/a>, Victor Faiella spent about six weeks perfecting a novelty hairdo to commemorate the historic moment.<\/p>

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With the help of his wife, Diane, the Brantford-based coiffeur and his model, Maureen Cowper, met twice a week to ensure the \u2019do \u2014 a crafty combination of bobby pins, cardboard, Halloween hair dye, a faux soccer ball made of Styrofoam, a wee Canadian flag and Cowper\u2019s long hair \u2014 was just right.<\/p>

\u201cWhen you like something, you do anything to complete it,\u201d Faiella, now 84 and retired, explained to the Star on Wednesday, hours before the Canadian National Men\u2019s Team returned to the pitch to face off against Belgium \u2014 Canada\u2019s first World Cup appearance in 36 years.<\/p>

Faiella\u2019s ode to his adopted home and the game he \u201clives for\u201d became national news. He said friends from as far flung as Argentina and his native Italy called to say they\u2019d somehow seen the elaborate coif.<\/p>

Since then, Canadian soccer has made significant strides, as displayed by its tenacious effort against No. 2-ranked Belgium. This year, Faiella said, the team isn\u2019t there to merely score a goal, a feat that eluded Canada in 1986, but to advance past the group stage to the Round of 16.<\/p>

\u201cWe\u2019re not equal with the rest of the world yet, but we\u2019re getting there.\u201d<\/p>

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