Turkish soccer club impose fines for players who set 'bad examples’ by having 'Islamic' beards.

Turkish soccer club impose fines for players who set 'bad examples’ by having 'Islamic' beards. (IT).

“Man, is this an imam-hatip school? You are a sportsman. You should be a model for the youth,” 
A leading Turkish soccer club have banned their players from growing beards after their chairman said they looked like students of Islamic vocational schools and set a bad example.

“I am 80 years old, and I shave every single day,” Genclerbirligi Chairman Ilhan Cavcav said in explaining the reasoning for his club’s decision to start issuing a fine of 25,000 lira, be that little under €9,000, to any of their footballers with beards.

His own grandson has been affected

“Man, is this an imam-hatip school? You are a sportsman. You should be a model for the youth,” he said in an interview with Dogan News Agency, complaining that his own 23-year-old grandson was negatively affected by the ever-growing number of beards in the football world.

Located in the Turkish capital of Ankara, Genclerbirligi currently place 9th in the Turkish league with Cavcav having acted as club chairman for nearly 40 years. His first spell beginning in 1976, resigning after the club were relegated and then taking control once more two years later. Hmmm......In Turkey Even Soccer must Islamize. Read the full story here.