REAL MADRID WINS, MOURINHO DOES NOT SHAVE HIS BEARD

In these days where Spain La Liga giants Real Madrid team blows storms on the green pitch and achieves massive victories consecutively, a remarkable detail on the substitute bench rather than the performance on the green pitch sat on the agenda of the football world. Since the day the unstoppable winning streak the purple-white squad caught and spreading fear to all opponents started, world-famous Portuguese manager José Mourinho definitively does not shave his beard. The experienced trainer, who was initially thought to neglect shaving due to the stress and time shortage brought by the intense fixture, not intervening in his growing beard in any way despite weeks passing caused a highly different belief to be born among thousands of fans filling the tribunes. Many football fans and sports authorities advocate that the successful technical man consciously refuses to shave his beard and transformed this situation totally into a superstition ritual. According to the widespread belief spreading rapidly among fans; this growing beard brings a massive luck and a mystical charm to the Real Madrid team. In such a critical period where every match is literally in golden value on the championship path, the possibility of even José Mourinho, accepted as one of the smartest and most pragmatic managers of the football world, resorting to such a traditional luck ritual reveals once again that football does not merely consist of tactics. While the Spanish press and social media platforms overflow with bearded photos updated every day, millions of fans devoting their hearts to the purple-white colors make calls for the Portuguese technical man absolutely not to sit on the barber chair as long as the winning streak continues. Whether this mysterious beard charm combining with the tremendous performance of the star footballers on the pitch will lead the Real Madrid team to the championship trophy at the end of the season is followed with an incredible curiosity and a massive excitement by the whole sports public.

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