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1 FLAMENGO’S LITTLE HIPSTER

Is it just us, or are kids growing beards when they’re a hell of a lot younger these days?

Every football-loving eight-year-old has a favourite player. They put their poster on their bedroom wall, or wear a shirt with their name on it. But, no, that wasn’t enough for one child in Rio de Janeiro, who turned up to a live screening of the Copa Libertadores final at the Maracana with dyed hair and a full beard – drawn on, we think – in honour of Flamengo’s Gabriel Barbosa.

Still, at least he didn’t have fireworks strapped to his chest, as a young child did at 2018’s Libertadores final between River