Guys like Hardik, Rahul follow footballers' hairstyles: La Liga ambassador Rohit

Zinedine Zidane fan Rohit Sharma says some of India players who have distinguished mselves in cricket, don't mind following footballers when it comes to hairstyles. Rohit was at ease speaking about football, his favourite player, team and club after being named India brand ambassor of La Liga giants Real Mrid. " young guys who have come into team like Shreyas Iyer, K L Rahul, Hardik Pandya, y all follow football and y do watch all se footballers, ir hairstyle and what y do with ir hairstyle.." said dashing opener on Thursday.

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Asked who was his favourite player and club, Rohit said Zidane and Real Mrid. wonder Rohit wants Real Mrid to win Champions Trophy. Next up was favourite FIFA World Cup team, and answer was Spain. "This is t because I am associated with La Liga. I used to love Zinedine  Zidane, I watched him play and that's how I started watching football regularly and Spain obviously because of ir skills, how y play football. "Real Mrid is again because of skill and passion, how y play and how much skills y have within group," he said.

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He is also first n-footballer in Spanish league's history to be named as brand ambassor. He was asked who is best footballer in Indian cricket team and Rohit said, "re are lots of m actually, we have got Zlatan Ibrahimovic in our squ as well, that's Ishant Sharma."

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Rohit said standard of Indian football has improved in recent years. "Indian football has taken a giant leap in last few years. It has become competitive and you can see that when you watch ISL and when you see Indian national team play against all opposition." " infrastructure has grown immensely and ISL, in particular, has provided a good platform to younger Indian players to come out and display skills, just like how IPL has done for Indian cricket." On association with La Liga, Rohit said, "Football in India, is in its global growth trajectory and it is heartening to see that it is more considered as 'sleeping giant'.  "Over course of past five years, we have witnessed significant growth in interest for football in India. Credit must be given to everyone associated with it, including fans."

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