{"id":32597,"date":"2017-02-16T02:18:39","date_gmt":"2017-02-16T02:18:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/asamoah-gyan-deemed-to-have-unethical-hair-in\/"},"modified":"2017-02-16T02:18:31","modified_gmt":"2017-02-16T02:18:31","slug":"asamoah-gyan-deemed-to-have-unethical-hair-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/asamoah-gyan-deemed-to-have-unethical-hair-in\/","title":{"rendered":"Asamoah Gyan deemed to have &#8216;unethical hair&#8217; in United Arab Emirates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{Former Sunderland striker Asamoah Gyan is among a group of more than 40 players deemed to have &#8220;unethical hair&#8221; under United Arab Emirates Football Association (UAEFA) guidelines.}<\/p>\n<p>The 31-year-old Ghanaian is on loan at Dubai-based Arabian Gulf League side Al Ahli from Shanghai SIPG.<\/p>\n<p>Some Islamic teachings ban &#8216;Qaza&#8217; hairstyles, where only part of the head is shaved.<\/p>\n<p>Individual match referees judge whether players&#8217; haircuts are appropriate.<\/p>\n<p>Some match officials in the United Arab Emirates enforce the rules because they are concerned about children copying the styles.<\/p>\n<p>Similar guidelines have been enforced in neighbouring countries. In 2012, Saudi Arabia goalkeeper Waleed Abdullah was told to cut his &#8220;un-Islamic&#8221; hair by the referee before playing for his club side Al Shabab.<\/p>\n<p>The UAEFA sends a player&#8217;s club a warning letter in the first instance, with punishments escalating to a fine and then a suspension if he does not comply.<\/p>\n<p>Gyan is one of 46 players at the warning letter stage.<\/p>\n<p>According to Middle Eastern football website Ahdaaf, Al Wahda&#8217;s Suhail Al-Mansoori (pictured below) was told to cut his hair while UAE international and 2016 Asian footballer of the year Omar Abdulrahman, who sports a similar style and also plays in the Arabian Gulf League, was let off.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-18244 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/_94651756_gyan_gettty.jpg\" alt=\"Gyan was recently in action for Ghana at the African Cup of Nations\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>Source:BBC <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{Former Sunderland striker Asamoah Gyan is among a group of more than 40 players deemed to have &#8220;unethical hair&#8221; under United Arab Emirates Football Association (UAEFA) guidelines.} The 31-year-old Ghanaian is on loan at Dubai-based Arabian Gulf League side Al Ahli from Shanghai SIPG. Some Islamic teachings ban &#8216;Qaza&#8217; hairstyles, where only part of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[100],"byline":[249],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-32597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","tag-africa","byline-bbc"],"bylines":[{"id":249,"name":"BBC","slug":"bbc","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":104}],"contributors":[{"id":249,"name":"BBC","slug":"bbc","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":104}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32597\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32597"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=32597"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=32597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}