Cristiano Ronaldo dyes hair gold ahead of Ballon d'Or award ceremony

Cristiano Ronaldo dyes hair gold ahead of Ballon d'Or award ceremony

Cristiano Ronaldo has dyed his hair with a tint of gold ahead of the Ballon d'Or ceremony on Monday night in Paris.

The Real Madrid striker has the weekend off after Zinedine Zidane rested him from Madrid's clash with Deportivo de la Coruna on Saturday.

On Friday in training he was spotted with his new cut, which is obviously a nod to his expectation of receiving the fourth Ballon d'Or of his career.

See his cut here:

The 30 man shortlist for the award: 

Sergio Aguero (Manchester City), Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (Borussia Dortmund), Gareth Bale (Real Madrid), Gianluigi Buffon (Juventus), Cristiano Ronaldo (Real Madrid), Kevin de Bruyne (Manchester City), Paulo Dybala (Juventus), Diego Godin (Atletico Madrid), Antoine Griezmann (Atletico Madrid), Gonzalo Higuain (Juventus), Zlatan Ibrahimovic (Manchester United), Andres Iniesta (Barcelona), Koke (Atletico Madrid), Toni Kroos (Real Madrid), Robert Lewandowski (Bayern Munich), Hugo Lloris (Tottenham Hotspur), Riyad Mahrez (Leicester City), Lionel Messi (Barcelona), Luka Modric (Real Madrid), Thomas Muller (Bayern Munich), Manuel Neuer (Bayern Munich), Neymar (Barcelona), Dimitri Payet (West Ham), Pepe (Real Madrid), Paul Pogba (Manchester United), Rui Patricio (Sporting Lisbon), Sergio Ramos (Real Madrid), Luis Suarez (Barcelona), Jamie Vardy (Leicester City), Arturo Vidal (Bayern Munich).