Pogba's recent mutual revelations with his brother Matthias have become a hot topic in the news. After Borg Seven said that his brother asked the wizard to use witchcraft to cast a spell on Mbappe to lower his head, the French newspaper "Team" said that Mbappe called the brothers separately, in addition to learning about the incident, his main purpose was to ask Matthias whether there was a good way to break the curse.
Pogba's latest response was to admit that he had hired the wizard and give him a few million euros a year, not to give Mbappe a lower head, but to keep him safe. As an African-American player, why are you so frequently involved in African witchcraft, behind those magical and incredible events, do you know the crazy universe of African witchcraft?
African witchcraft is not as simple as you think
When it comes to witchcraft, many people associate him with feudal superstitions and associate it with the famous curse of witchcraft during the Han Wudi period. Think that it is simply to find a wizard, bury the kirito puppeteer in the ground, write the name of others, curse the complainer, and the cursed person will become unhappy or disaster.
Most people think: Does this thing work? Isn't that weird!
According to this logic, is it not that Trump has long been cursed to death. So aren't all the police officers in the world unemployed? There is no need to handle the case, directly find a puppet, write the name of the criminal suspect and write the appeal, wait until a certain moment on a certain day, fall at the door of the police station, and then take the initiative to surrender, and it will be over.
However, the world is far more complex and mysterious than people think, and it is not so simple to add the word Africa to witchcraft.
Let's start with a few incredible stories.
In 1992, when the African Cup of Nations won in Côte d'Ivoire, a group of wizards stopped in front of the team's locker room to beg for unpaid wages, stressing that the team won the championship because of the wizards' approach, and if they did not give money, they would always curse the team. Côte d'Ivoire then had a bad record for more than 10 years, until 2004, when the football association settled the arrears, the team did not improve, and then reached the World Cup in Germany.
Cameroon goalkeeper Engeno, known as Africa's first world superstar, has played in Europe for many years of his career, and the legendary goalkeeper Buffon regarded him as his only idol, and as a teenager, Buffon saw his incredible performance in the 1990 World Cup and decided to give up the forward position and play the goalkeeper instead.
At the 2002 Africa Cup of Nations, Engeno was already a teaching assistant in Cameroon and held a mysterious position. Before the semi-final match against host Mali, Engeno sneaked up on two goalposts with a gri-gri (an African amulet) in his hand and made a strange gesture.
This made the Malian staff at the stadium think that he was a terrorist, and when they learned that the other side was using witchcraft, they were even more angry, and the joint police directly handcuffed him, triggering a large-scale conflict between the two sides, until the presidents of the two countries came forward to gradually calm the incident. Cameroon won the match and the Malian appealed to the African Football Federation saying it had been cursed to replay, which was dismissed.
At the 2014 World Cup, Ghana was placed in the death group with Germany, Portugal and the United States. Before the game, Bon Sam, Ghana's most influential wizard, declared that he had cast a spell on CRo: I found four dogs and killed them to make special elves. Ronaldo's injury is something that no doctor can cure, and they will never find the cause of his injury because it is a spell. Today he has a knee injury, tomorrow he has a thigh injury, and the day after tomorrow he will be injured in other parts.
He also said that Portugal was doomed to fail to qualify. As a result, Portugal lost miserably to Germany in the first match, and although it defeated Ghana in the last battle, both teams were eliminated. In this tournament, C Ronaldo did not suffer major injuries, but his legs were constantly injured, and he only scored a goal in the final match against Ghana.
In the 2016 Rwandan league, the home team Makula Victory team attacked in the first half, but could not score, but was sneaked by the opponent to steal a goal, and still fell behind 0-1 before the end of the half.
Soon the home team players figured out a way. In the first half of stoppage time, striker Kamala sprinted to the opponent's goalpost at sprint speed, threw a "JuJu" doll (considered a doll that can cast spells and curses), and was chased by the opposing player, who was also warned by a yellow card. Curiously, in the second half, the home team relied on "witchcraft" to successfully score goals and equalize.
Talking about this move after the game, Kamala had another version, saying that the opponent put something strange in his goal, and put in the "JuJu" doll himself, in order to break the spell, not to cast a spell.
The 2022 Africa Cup of Nations is still taking place in mysterious Cameroon. After the opening battle, Zimbabwe protested the use of witchcraft at the host stadium, because before the game, they found a large number of bat carcasses in the stadium.
Before this competition, a famous wizard in Benin cursed Mane to die of a heart attack, and Senegal condemned the other side on the one hand, and on the other hand, it rushed to find a high person to crack the other party's magic.
What happened to Voodoo, which terrified Ibrahimovic too?
Ibrahimovic, who has always been unafraid of heaven, is also afraid of African mysteries? The cause of the incident also dates back to the quarter-final of the Coppa Italia on January 27, 2021, ac Milan vs. Sengoku Mi.
In the derby, from the beginning, Lukaku clashed with Romagnoli and Salmales. As the eldest brother in the team, Ibrahimovic can not sit idly by, he severely criticized Lukaku, who had been a teammate at Manchester United, but was rebuffed.
Ibrahimovic is not a good stubble, when did he suffer this grievance, when in the Barca dressing room, he scolded Guardiola, the other party did not return the mouth, and now a post-93 so ignorant. So an angry Ibrahimovic, after insulting the other party as a stupid donkey, went straight into the other person's soft ribs and attacked his mother.
The Swedes' exact words are: Call your mother and ask her to teach you the crap of voodoo, little stupid donkey!
This sentence completely infuriated the other party, and Lukaku was completely out of control: not only threatened to explode Ibrahimovic's head with a gun, but also directly soared: your mother is a prostitute, X your wife's dirty mouth. The two immediately pushed the bull on the spot, and also had to fight off the field, and both were warned by yellow cards.
Briefly, Ibrahimovicism, also translated as voodoo, originated in western Africa. It is a primitive religion that combines ancestor worship, animism, and psychicism, somewhat like shamanism.
Voodoo is widely spoken in Africa and is the faith of many people, even the state religion in Benin, and widespread in Nigeria and Ghana. Not only in Africa, but also in Haiti and the Caribbean, Germany, as well as in the southern United States of Louisiana and South America, there are also large numbers of devout believers.
Voodoo, including voodoo, voodoo dolls and many other magical factors, has attracted many scientists to conduct research, some problems have found answers, and some have not been solved. One of the most famous and terrifying is the corpse, also known as the zombie.
It is rumored that voodoo shamans have a magic powder, and after trying to make the enemy drink it, this person will enter a state of suspended animation and become a walking dead, obey the words of others, and become a slave. The scientists' explanation is that most of the so-called "soul powder" is made of pufferfish or toad toxin, which can affect the function of the human heart or nervous system. The victim will be suspended into a state of suspended animation if he or she accidentally eats or touches these powders.
So how did Ibrahimovic know about Lukaku's mother, which leads to another story.
(Pictured) Lukaku and Mom
In the summer of 2017, Lukaku, who scored 25 goals at Everton, became a feast for the transfer market, with both Chelsea and Manchester United offering generous contracts.
Everton boss Moschli revealed that in order to keep Romelu Lukaku, he offered a better annual salary than Chelsea, and his agent also agreed, when the two sides were ready to announce the news to reporters after signing the contract. Lukaku made a phone call to her mum, and then he told the club that he had done a voodoo ritual during a pilgrimage to a place in Africa that the ceremony had sent him a message that he needed to go to Chelsea. So Lukaku turned down the Toffee's new contract.
In the end, Lukaku did not stay in the team or go to Stamford Bridge, but joined Manchester United. After the interview was exposed, Lukaku was once furious and wanted to sue Everton, saying that the other party was making up the story, and his agent held a press conference to say that Lukaku was a very devout Catholic and Voodoo was not part of his life or faith. But there was no mention of whether her mother was a voodoo, so after this incident, Lukaku's mother became famous.
Ibrahimovic saw this and attacked the other party's mother.
It should be known that voodoo is also an important part of the black movement, which aims to restore black values and evoke self-esteem, self-confidence and identification with the people of African colonial society for their own cultural personality and cultural belonging.
It should be noted that if Lukaku's mother really believes in voodoo and is also the freedom of belief of others, Ibrahimovic attacks others in this way, not only has an element of insult and discrimination, but also is indeed excessive.
So after the conflict, it was once rumored that Ibrahimovic would be banned for 10 games in Serie A because of racial discrimination and other issues. The Swedes, who later escaped an additional ban, encountered even more incredible events.
Nearly a year after the incident, in an interview, Ibrahimovic said with some fear that the cost of the conflict was too great.
Pressed by the reporter, Ibrahimovic said silently: After losing that game, I was injured, and after that, there were a lot of bad things in my life, and I couldn't find a reasonable explanation, so to speak, I began to be unlucky, many people will wonder if Lukaku really cursed me? I was also worried, so I specifically asked my friends to pray for me.
Of course, Ibrahimovic did not stop there, and he finally released a harsh word: Now that the account between us is not finished, I hope to meet him soon. These things have to be solved on the field!
The mysterious sorcery of Guinea: popular all over the world, used by many European teams
According to the second brother Matthias, his third brother Pogba, in the family of Guinea, found a skilled wizard, and cursed his teammates on the national team, also the popular fried chicken Mbappe, and lowered his head.
This matter has not been clearly stated so far, but from the previous intimate relationship between the two Pogba brothers, coupled with the media exposure of Pogba's mysterious connection with the wizards in Guinea, this matter is not empty.
More fans also linked to Mbappe's sluggish performance at the beginning of the season, judging from his hollow eyes, stiff body when carrying the ball, and increasingly eccentric temper, it is really possible that he was demoted!
Witchcraft is very prevalent in Guinea and neighboring Guinea-Bissau, where witchcraft and wizardry are not only exceptional in Africa, but also in the world.
In the 2015-2016 season, Benfica crushed the rival Porto and won the Portuguese Super League. While they enjoyed the joy of the championship, Porto press officer Marcos revealed that before the season, Benfica's club president Luis contacted a Guinean police officer, Nhaga, another of whom was a famous part-time wizard.
Benfica asked Nhaga to provide witchcraft services to ensure that the team would cause some trouble for his opponents even as they won consecutive battles. The two sides also signed a work contract, and Benfica provided Nhaga with 100,000 euros in wizarding fees.
Benfica did not deny this, but pulled out Porto's fierce material. Before the 1986-1987 Champions League final, Porto brought in the magical wizard Delane Vieira, who, although Brazilian, was a follower of the Umbanda sect, a sect from Angola, Africa, and before the battle with Bayern, he found two leper toads from a special location and put them on the pitch. In the end, the unpromising Porto won 2-1 and won the Champions League. What Benfica meant: Can you do the first year, I can't do the fifteen?
By the 2016-2017 season, guinean wizard Nhaga had made a new request to Benfica: to add money. His reasoning is that the competition in the Portuguese Premier League is becoming more and more intense, with at least 100,000 euros to win the title in the season, 30,000 euros to win the cup and 38,000 Euros to win a single victory in the Champions League knockout stage.
Nhaga, who charges flexibly, told Benfica that you can either order or buy a package. In the end, the club spent 150,000 euros to buy a combo package, and this season, the team won the double in the Portuguese Premier League and the Portuguese Cup, achieving four consecutive titles.
The next plot is even more bizarre, after the season Benfica originally wanted to continue to find wizards and raise his salary, but was politely refused, on the grounds that this time it was extremely difficult and he himself could not do anything. It was just so coincidental that the league title of that season was won by Porto.
There is another version of this, that is, the wizard Enhaga Lion opened his mouth to add money and was refused, resulting in a spell to devour Benfica.
The Portuguese Premier League team has long had a tradition of asking African wizards to do it. In 2004, Benfica invited a wizard named Kamala from Guinea-Bissau, and since then, the team has achieved outstanding results, winning the league championship after 11 years. Just last season, the media found that Porto had hired a magical wizard from Africa, with a monthly salary of 15,000 euros to ensure that the team won the championship.
What did Pogba do to Mba?
In Guinea, it's not news that players and teams resort to witchcraft, but it's not always been so magical. In the quarter-finals of the 2015 Africa Cup of Nations, Guinea met the powerful Ghanaian team.
Before the game, Guinean player Abdelaya Cisse approached the wizard in an attempt to help the team defeat Ghana with a strange sorcery, by tying a spell-casting belt to his body in the hope of "exerting power" during the game. But unexpectedly, there is also a wizard in the opponent's squad, protecting the team.
As a result, in this game, Guinea fell behind 3-0 early, and Cisse performed badly. Embarrassingly, in stoppage time, Guinea's goalkeeper Yatala was sent off for a red card for maliciously kicking Gian. The Guinean manager, who had run out of substitutions, made Cisse a cameo goalkeeper, and while he was changing clothes, he was photographed by the media on his waist with a witchcraft tool.
Suppose Pogba really did witchcraft against Mbappe, what type and method? There really is no clear answer to this question, not to mention that in Africa, in Guinea alone, there are hundreds of witchcraft with different names, different means and different effects.
The European tabloids predicted that Pogba's deception may not be a malicious attempt to curse Mbappe for how the bloody disaster is, but just to regain a position as a brother in the national team. Before the 2018 World Cup in France, Pogba was a brother of the French team, and although he played well and won the Hercules Cup in this competition, Mbappe stole a lot of the limelight.
Some media speculate that Pogba's wizards are most likely using "JuJu" witchcraft, which is very popular in Africa. It can curse the "target person" in a variety of ways, such as rituals, incantations, drawing strange symbols on a person's body, or cutting off someone else's hair, armpit hair, and pubic hair into a unique vessel.
Another frightening detail is that Pogba and Lukaku, who had been teammates at Manchester United and were also of African descent, had a very good relationship, and the two had belonged to the same club of agent Laiola.
So did Lukaku know more details about the Pogba witchcraft incident?
The Great Battle of African South American Witchcraft: Who's Better
Witchcraft and wizarding exist all over the world, and apart from Africa, the most widely used in football stadiums is probably in South America and North and Central America.
Their most common method is to make dolls and make a big fuss about them. At the knockout round of the 2010 World Cup, a Mexican fan in a Brazilian jersey made a muppet with a picture of Messi and an Argentine jersey and pinned it to the puppet.
When fellow fans pinned "Messi", another Mexican fan showed "Messi" a red card, hoping that he would be sent off in the match against Mexico. As a result, they were still invincible to the Pampas Eagles. This Qatar World Cup, Mexican fans are once again in the same group as Argentina, and they don't know what tricks they will do.
At the 2006 World Cup in Germany, an Ecuadorian wizard named Naichapi came to Germany with the team, danced indigenous dances, visited three stadiums in Ecuador's group stage, and said that his spell could protect the team from qualifying. As a result, in the group match against Germany, they pushed Costa Rica and Poland to qualify second in the group.
At the 1998 Fifacence in France, Argentina met their sworn enemy England in the knockout rounds. Argentina fans used black umbrellas and black cat ragdolls, a symbol of bad luck, against England before the game. When the other party entered the scene, they opened the black umbrella in unison, thinking that this would bring bad luck to the other side. As a result, David Beckham was sent off with a red card on the spot, and the Three Lions were sent out on penalties.
Four years later, the Argentine repeated the same trick, before the Anglo-Afghan war Beckham took the penalty, many fans threw the black cat puppet off the stand, hoping that he would lose it. But in the end the Argentine still lost, and after the game England centre-back Campbell said of the matter: We are not superstitious, so this set is useless.
One of the fiercest sorcery fights at the World Cup came at the 1982 World Cup, when both sides were on the move before cameroon and Peru fought in the group stage.
The famous Peruvian wizard Teridez sprinkled the photos of the coaches and members of the Cameroonian team with black chicken blood, recited words in his mouth, and after reciting the incantation, buried the photos in the ground, and then set up an altar on the court and cast a spell with a sword. Cameroon also brought in its famous Grand Wizard to burn the list of Peruvian players to ashes, then sprinkled them on the field with their feet and used spells to turn Peruvian players into waste.
In this game, both teams were almost out of shape, and eventually exchanged blanks 0-0. In the end, none of them were granted the right to qualify.
At the 2002 World Cup, it was also a clash of South American and African metaphysics, with Argentina and Nigeria in the same group of deaths bringing in their own masters. Wizards in Nigeria sprinkle pigeon blood around the dressing room, then have players cut small wounds on specific parts of their bodies, apply magic powder to the wounds, and sprinkle antidotes on their own goalposts to prevent the opponent's shot from flying into the goal. Argentina has a number of masters who said that they will work together to let the Pampas Eagles win the championship.
After two rounds of the group stage, Nigeria, which had lost consecutively, was out early, and Argentina failed to qualify for the group.
These unheard of African witchcraft make people jaw-dropping
African witchcraft is used on the pitch, and an important medium is animals, including flying in the sky, running on the ground, swimming in the water, and jumping in grass pits.
One of the cruel practices they commonly use is to slaughter livestock before competition. For example, the Cameroonian team, before each important game, they have to kill a rooster, and then sprinkle chicken blood on the field, which is said to enhance the morale of the players. South Africa slaughtered a good and aggressive ram before the game, also spilling blood on the sidelines, hoping to bring good luck to the team.
In addition, they are accustomed to relying on strangling their opponent's mascot to achieve a counter-effect. Before the opening match of the 2002 Korea-Japan World Cup, Senegalese fans publicly slaughtered a lot of roosters on the sidelines, some of which were said to be brought from France, in order to create trouble for the opponents.
In 2006, the Togo team in the same group as South Korea also wanted to use similar means to bring themselves good luck before the game, but after learning that the opponent's mascot was a tiger, they gave up decisively. The consequence was a 2-1 loss to South Korea.
At the 2010 World Cup, a local wizard in South Africa said that drying the brain marrow of a vulture and then rolling it into a cigarette to smoke would allow the South African team to win consecutive battles. This claim has caused a lot of damage to south Africa's vultures, resulting in 7 of the country's nine vulture species being endangered, and many animal protection groups have angrily denounced it.
Along with the vultures, there were also squirrels, and there were South African witch doctors who claimed that applying squirrel oil to the feet could enhance the speed of running, which led many African teams to follow suit.
There are many, many more strange things, evil things, and incredible events like this in Africa.
Why is Witchcraft in Africa so constantly forbidden, and why are the players so convinced?
In Europe and other regions, with the advancement of science and cognition, many teams that used to hire psychics and wizards (England, Scotland, etc.) before the competition are now replaced by psychologists and psychotherapists.
But in Africa, most people still believe in seemingly absurd witchcraft, such as Pogba's claim to bring in wizards for a few million euros a year, to keep himself safe from injury, but he had just switched to Juventus at the beginning of the season when he was seriously injured. The matter was also puzzled and ridiculed by the French and English media.
The French "Team Newspaper" and other media have also disclosed that Mbappe's parents, who are suspected of becoming "victims", were shocked and angry when they heard about this incident, and did not rule out the possibility of also looking for a wizard to solve each other's magic.
The reasons why African and African-American players have always believed in witchcraft are history, family, teaching by example, past experience and other factors. In Senegal, for example, the government once wanted to legalize witchcraft, arguing that it would reduce the burden on public hospitals.
And among the younger generation, they are equally convinced of African witchcraft. In the 2017 U20 Cup Africa Cup final, Senegal's No. 11 threw a "JuJu" doll into the Zambian goal before taking a free kick. This led to the outbreak of conflict between the two sides.
Therefore, players of African and African descent cannot change the concept of witchcraft in a short period of time. The future may take generations.
In addition, when some African teams learned that their opponents used witchcraft, they were somewhat stressed, and they rushed to believe in the principles of having and not believing in what they did not, and entered a vicious circle.
In recent years, several major religious groups in Africa have repeatedly called on players to stay away from witchcraft, but they have continued to be prohibited. The african team's approach is to emphasize with righteous words that the team will never use witchcraft, hire wizards, and always try to find some evil ways behind their backs.
The irony is that in the leagues of many African countries, there is a clear rule that if a team uses witchcraft and related magic, it will be fined or even banned. But in the African World Preliminaries, the African Cup of Nations and even the World Series, more than 90% of the national football associations will ask from various clubs, is there any magic wizard to help us?
The world is so big that there are no wonders, and there are many magical events that even science cannot explain. But people yearn for sunshine and kindness, and the pursuit of a better life has not changed.
The biggest difference between humans and animals, in addition to intelligence, is also the clear understanding of the boundaries between good and evil. It would be too evil to use others to destroy the normal lives of others for the sake of victory and one's own selfish desires.
If the wizards who let Pogba and other African-American players fall for, if the mana is really boundless, in the future, in addition to helping the players, they may also cooperate to pray for world peace, let the wars everywhere subside, and let the people live a prosperous life, rather than blackhanding players or a team.