Mane man: does Antonio Conte wear a wig?
Following Antonio Conte‘s return to the Prem, we’ve been wondering how he restored his hair from near-exctinction 25 years ago into the luscious locks we see today.
Two schools of thought on this:
Theory 1) It’s a wig
Pretty simple argument: look how straight, dark and shiny it is.
Also, it’s nearly impossible to find photos of Conte between his shaved head stage (circa 2007) and the full head we see today. Which would suggest he just slapped a rug on it.
It’s quite a wig-shaped haircut, too, unlike the style he sported in the late nineties/early naughties, where he grew it long and slicked it back.
Theory 2) Turkish clinic
We’ve talked about Turkey before in relation to Andros Townsend’s miracle regrowth – simply put, it’s the place to go for cheap hair transplants.
Conte shaved his head in 2007, which is often required at the early stages of a transplant. His hair has been fantastic ever since.
Plus, would a man of his wealth and vanity really rely on something as old-fashioned and risky as a wig?
Anyway, we put this to a vote of the Upshot Gold members on Wednesday, and it was a landslide…
We also got a lot of pushback on the idea of Antonio going budget in Turkey, which is probably right.
In fact, according to a Shotter named Humphrey: “I have it on good authority that Conte was in the first wave of patients for a pioneering new procedure in Vancouver in the early 2000s.” So there you have it.
