Comments on: WORLD CUP 2010 and “JUJU” Men

By: ash

ash — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 00:33:17 +0000

god dammit italy. i hated u before this game but now i hate u even more since u just made me lose my bet for 200 bux

By: Austin

Austin — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 02:24:32 +0000

A few years back the most common ways of neutralising your opponents juju were having one of your team member pass urine on the goal posts and/or dropping some table salt at the center of the ground. It seems people are becoming civilised. I don’t see them doing that anymore.

By: Paul

Paul — Sun, 31 May 2009 18:32:22 +0000

In basesall they conduct random drug tests. One day they should search soccer players without notice. You will be surprised to see what items some soccer players will be found with. Some goalkeepers play with a pierced egg in their underwear (So the ball can go over the bar). Some players play with a bottle containing live fish (helps with dribbling).

By: Ramsey

Ramsey — Sat, 30 May 2009 18:14:31 +0000

Witch doctors scatter charms on the field or smear the goalposts with magic ointments to keep the ball out. In 1984 no fewer than 150 fétisheurs stayed with the Ivoirian national team at their hotel before a crunch game in the African Nations Cup: Each player took a bath in water treated with various potions, before being invited to make a wish in the ear of a pigeon. Another soccer club was taken to court in 1998 when, following a decisive league match in Bouake, its players admitted to drinking a concoction prepared by a juju man (the case was dismissed).

In 2006 Soccer’s governing body in Africa was aware of the PR damage done by juju stories so they banned “team advisers” from being part of a squad’s official entourage. But superstition, of one kind or another, has always played a large part in sport, and fetishism is sure to continue in Ivoirian soccer. Before 2005 September’s crucial World Cup qualifier against Cameroon, the gutters of Abidjan ran red with chicken blood. For better or worse this is V. S. Naipaul’s Africa: a place of magic that is also on display at the many roadblocks in the north and west of the country, where soldiers are convinced that the amulets they wear around their necks will ward off bullets. War, too, encourages superstition.

By: Buba

Buba — Sat, 30 May 2009 17:08:27 +0000

Do you believe in luck? Good luck requires hard work and so does juju.

By: Yakubu

Yakubu — Sat, 30 May 2009 14:47:17 +0000

Most of the juju that oes seem to work requires the juju man to go on the pitch bbefore the game or position himself aroun the pitch uring the game. I don’t think a juju man will be allowed to be on or around the pitch during the World Cup Finals.

By: Jacob

Jacob — Sat, 30 May 2009 03:20:15 +0000

U call them juju men but we call them team doctors.

By: Rick

Rick — Fri, 29 May 2009 23:02:59 +0000

I don’t know if they still believe in magic in Ghana but during my time we did believe that juju can affect the outcome of a game. Our juju man would tell us that we would win 3-1 and we would score an own goal. It did happen.