Read for 2 minutes9 Jul 2026 01:58 PM IST
Candido ‘Coco’ Fernandez, a barber popular with NBA stars in Boston, received a WhatsApp message last month requesting trims and fades for some clients. These are Kylian Mbappe and Ousmane Dembele.
Coco’s team will probably be the only pros facing both teams in the quarters.
According to OneFootball, the message from the private number read, “Can you cut KM’s hair tonight at 9.30pm?”
It took him a long time to register who KM was and then Fernandes, who owns Mober Cuts in 2016, went to the France team hotel. Dembele and Marcus Thuram were also in line to receive the fads. But that was after Desiree Doue said, “We found the best,” NBC Boston video showed.
OneFootball reports that Mbappe was so impressed with his scissor magic that he immediately recommended it to his next opponent – Morocco’s Achraf Hakimi. A week later in June, Coco cut Morocco and their manager. Fernandes would later become the in-house barber for both teams, giving them smart fads.
Waltham Barber in Massachusetts has cut Kyrie Irving and a variety of celebrities. His first Celtics player was Jayson Tatum. But when it comes to football superstars, he claims to be a bit intimidating.
“Last week I worked with the French national team, with two players, Dembele and Mbappe.
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It’s my job to make them look and feel right. When I found out that these are global superstars. It almost became a little more terrifying. I could stay calm. I’m really proud of my craftsmanship, symmetry. Being able to pass on a part of my system to them makes me feel like I have a stake in their performance,” he says.
Coco is a Celtics expert. According to WCBV 5, he once gave Celtics’ Marcus Smart a green hairstyle while his counterpart ‘Jawz’ creates green dye and braids for NBA stars. Grant Williams once paid USD 600 for a haircut from Coco, five times the actual cost of the haircut.