All right, we're about 15 hours away from
Boston FC's first ever playoff match,
a distant dream just one season ago.
But this season the Verde and
Black have been history makers.
From second to last to 2nd place.
Diego Fagundez has certainly
resurrected his career here in Austin.
He's having himself a career year.
Six goals, career best 15 helpers.
So to get you set for Sunday's
first ever playoff match,
let's go outside the box with Austin.
Sees head turning midfielder.
Look good, play
good. That's the name of
the game for Diego Fagundez.
Your hair obviously very special,
noticeable on the pitch.
What makes your hair so important to you?
I always painted it different colors.
Pink for breast cancer.
Purple, green and blue.
People recognize me because
of my crazy hairstyles.
Mohawk long hair.
I just did different things.
You remember the first time
you really experimented?
I don't remember exactly the first time,
but I did have long hair and I remember my
sister would do like ponytails or something.
Crazy on my hair. Actually.
Told them the other day that maybe in the
offseason let it grow and do some curls.
I don't know.
Something different.
Who knows what how it's gonna be next year.
I feel like a lot of experts
were maybe writing you off,
but here you are.
This season's career year,
part of 20 plus goals.
It's been pretty impressive.
What do you think that says about?
New territory, new places
and making the most of it.
I was in New England for so many years,
did a lot of things, broke a couple
of records over there. But I
needed a new change. And when I came here
I've been trying to do everything
I can to to prove to
them that I'm still here.
I think everybody thought after
2013 that that Diego was done and
I wanted to prove everybody wrong.
So does having crazy hair,
unique hair make you play better?
Of course. I always say if you look good,
you play good sometimes.
Sometimes the green doesn't work.
As well as you want.
So you don't go back to if they're
saying well, I don't have my hair done,
she's not winning. So we have to do it.
We have to get it done.
What about purple?
What about The Color Purple
that is special to you.
Purple is just a lot of
meanings around the world.
So sometimes I was gonna do a paint
this this month for breast cancer,
but I decided I wanted to
stick to the purple.
And something about the purple still
attracts me and I and I like it.
So maybe maybe next month or maybe
in a couple weeks I'll I'll go pink.
So how often do you get?
Ah, that's a tricky 1 because it
sometimes they go three weeks,
sometimes I go 2 weeks.
I don't want my hair to fall off,
so after me neither. After
I probably bleach every two to three
weeks and then haircuts once a week,
sometimes once every two weeks.
It all depends if I can get on the
list or not. If you can make it
to the to the sign up sheet in time and be in
the top three, four.
Wait, there's a sign up sheet there
is so for for people at home.
Many here are quality over quantity cuts.
Comes with a facility,
sometimes cuts the team's hair.
Does a great job because now I see many.
But there's a sign up sheet.
Does it get pretty competitive
to get your name? Top four?
Of course there there's some argument on
who's top 3-4 and if you're not there,
something you have to wait a couple hours.
And am I jealous of everybody else's there?
No, I like my own hair.
And let's talk a little bit more about
the the game itself on the pitch quickly.
Second to last last year,
second place.
This year, what has been the
biggest change in your mind?
I didn't the chemistry on the team last year,
it was we were a whole brand new Team,
20 something new players. Not
everybody knew exactly what kind of
team we were going to be and it's
hard to have chemistry with that.
This year we've added a couple of new
players and we already had the old players,
so it was kind of easier
to bring the new ones in.
And I think we're doing a good
job and everybody's hungry.
We want more and playoffs
in this league is tough.
It's one game and you're done,
so everybody needs to be ready. For
it, and it's going to be a battle.
If you're wondering why I
was touching Diego's hair,
it's really soft.
He wanted me to see how soft it was.
I just a reminder,
you'll be able to watch Diego Fagundez
and Austin FC take on Real Salt
Lake tomorrow right here on K view.
Match starts at 2.
Our Austin FC Chase for the cup.
30 minute special starts at
1:30 live at Q2 Stadium.
Hope you'll join us and hope you'll
stick around right now for one.
I'm checking the forecast.