How rosary beads helped Andr-Pierre Gignac and Tigres beat Chivas in the Liga MX Clausura 2023 final

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2023-05-29 09:39:56  • 2 mins

Listen to any extended interview with a soccer player and theres a good chance youll soon realise theyre a superstitious bunch. There have been many tales of what they have to do before a game, from generic things at any level such as always putting their right boot on before their left, to others that are more specific to the elite, like touching the This is Anfield sign when playing against Liverpool away from home.

Following Tigres dramatic Liga MX Clausura 2023 triumph over Chivas on Sunday, it came to light, via striker Andr-Pierre Gignac, that they may have received a little helping hand from up above (perhaps not strictly a superstition, admittedly).

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