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Believe it or not, footballers are some of the most superstitious people you will ever meet. Yes, they do work extremely hard to keep themselves in shape and top form, but many of them still rely on an extra bit of luck to help them perform optimally.  

Now, many of these things they do may not really make sense to you. But if they have continued to do them for some time, surely they believe it works for them, and if they do, who are we to question it?

Here are 5 crazy superstitious rituals performed by footballers.

Bruno Fernandes the manchester united starlet has shown what he is capable of and this time he started a premier league match with a hat-trick. His penalty technique is astounding and he is one of the best midfielders in the world today. Our team at Goal 90 has dived deep into Bruno's life to find out these 10 things you didn't know about the Portuguese Starlet.

Homophobia is disgusting and should never be condoned. And although it is not the most common kind of discrimination and hate being portrayed in football, we believe it should be talked about more and checked before it becomes worse than it already is. Because unfortunately, if homophobia continues to grow in the world, football will not be able to escape it. 

And sadly, there have already been numerous instances where football players or figures have been on the receiving end of homophobia or homophobic slurs. Here are 5 of those instances.

In football, Over the past year or two, you must have noticed players taking the knee just before kickoff in football games. And you also probably already know they do that in support of the fight against racism and discrimination.  Of course, the English players took a knee before all of their games including the final in Wembley. Wales also did; Belgium, too. 

But the rest of the national teams either did not take a knee at all throughout the tournament or did in only a few games. Understand the reason behind it, we know it is for racism, but do the teams that don't kneel don't know about racism?

We have seen Jesse Lingard on Manchester United's bench, and we have seen him at West ham getting the team to the top four spots in the Premier league. He is a player with potential and has a lot to offer. And just recently, Lingard revealed that he had a drinking problem or a habit of alcohol. He was so depressed without the game time at Manchester United that he was willing to leave the premier league altogether. Due to the heavy online criticism and abuse that is all so familiar to the modern-day footballer, Lingard didn't want to leave his house for fear of being recognized. It got so bad that he even considered a transfer to China or Saudi Arabia, far away from the spotlight and scrutiny. 

But how did he bounce back at Westham and now the Red Devils want him back. How did this happen? How did Jesse Lingard prove all his doubters wrong and bounced back with the success at West Ham?

So, about footballing stories. Have you heard the one about how Arsene Wenger almost signed every good player in the world for arsenal? Hehe, really funny story, that one. And we’re not even exaggerating when we say you could literally create two starting 11’s of top players that he almost signed.   

But today we won’t be talking about 22 players. Because in this video, we’ll talk about just a few players they turned down.   

So here are 8 players rejected by arsenal for ridiculous reasons. And we know you’re buzzing to hear all about it.  

Zlatan Ibrahimovic 

Harry Kane 

Ruud Gullit 

David Silva 

Gareth Bale 

Dimitri Payet 

Claude Makelele 

Virgil Van Dijk