REDONDO
                                                                   
             Redondo, who has not played for Argentina since the World Cup, said earlier this week that he had refused a request by national team coach Daniel Passarella to cut his hair and had been told that he would continue to be left out of the team.

Passarella has banned national team players from having long hair and wearing earrings since taking over last year.
The Redondo affair has dominated the news in South America's second largest nation all week.

Diego Maradona compared Passarella's stance to the military junta which once ruled the country while actor Gerardo Romano said: "It's a fascist and Nazi attitude."

Subsequent comments by Passarella, who said Redondo had been left out for purely football reasons, were described as untrue by the Real Madrid player.

"Passarella is not telling the truth. The only thing we didn't agree on is the hair," he said, referring to the meeting between the
two in Spain.

But President Menem took the coach's side, saying Redondo had been excluded because he had been inflexible in refusing to change his role in the team.

Veteran coach Carlos Griguol and former international Ramon Diaz, were among those who said that Redondo should follow the example of goalscorer Gabriel Batistuta and give in to Passarella's demands.

Real Madrid's Argentinian player  Fenando Carlos Redondo (L) battles for possession with Espanyol's striker Ismael Urzaiz.
 
 
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                               NAME :REDONDO
                      BIRHTDAY : 6-6-69
                          HEIGHT : 186 cm
                         WEIGHT : 80 Kg.