Aço Azul.
The World Surf League’s 2025 Championship Tour is still months away from getting underway, though as Thanksgiving approaches in the United States, surf fans are starting to feel the first rushes of thrill. Our heroes and heroines have spent the offseason going on surf trips, possibly searching for missing spines and in the case of Brazil’s Italo Ferreira, undergoing a remarkable transformation.
The gold medal winning goofy foot has always been exceedingly handsome but new snaps, posted to social media, put him in a whole new Boy Band-adjacent category.
Pure gorgeous.
Ferreira, who we last saw roaring from fifth place to second on World Surf League Finals Day at Lower Trestles, must certainly have other tour beauties on notice. It won’t be good enough to simply have a Jack Robinson-esque jaw line or rugged Ryan Callinan-ish appeal.
No.
In order to turn heads, the package must approach tip-top male super model.
Now that the challenge has been laid, do you think any tour surfer will attempt his own glow up or do you think they will collectively cede the ground to really, really, really, ridiculously good looking Ferreira?
Joe Turpel should, at the very least, try.