Footballers are so desperate to win games, and many often turn to rituals and superstition to help bring success to their teams.
This can be a simple as a lucky pair of socks or putting your right boot on before your left, but there are plenty out there that raise more questions than answers.
Here are six of the craziest superstitions in the world of football.
So, as the story goes, former Chelsea and Juventus forward Adrian Mutu once had a run-in with a group of witches (yes, you read that right), and the witches warned him that he had been cursed by one of his former lovers.