The World Cup in Russia is just about to start in a few days! Who can lift the Hercules Cup this year?
At present, all kinds of "big gods" have come out of the mountains, each showing their magic and calculating the results of the game.
The emergence of the "Prophet Emperor" at each World Cup makes the outside of the game full of fun. Not long ago, a cat named Achilles became the official "prophecy emperor" of the Russian World Cup.
So what is the magic of these "Prophetic Emperors", let's take a look at it together~!
Remember Paul the Octopus, who made him famous with 100% prediction accuracy at the 2010 World Cup in South Africa.
In its legendary "prophetic career", a total of 14 predictions were made, 13 games were hit, and the accuracy rate was as high as 92.85%. At the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, Paul's accuracy rate reached 100%, and he successfully predicted the final result.
Paul's method of predicting victory or defeat is to choose a glass jar printed with the flag representing the different teams and remove the shells that have been pre-placed in the glass jar.
On October 26, 2010, Paul the Octopus "gave up", and then the "prediction team" of the World Cup joined various "mythical beasts".
The 2014 World Cup in Brazil welcomed Paul's challenger, Shahhn, a camel from Dubai, who predicted by biting the flag. It accurately predicted the outcome of the four matches of the opener, but then misjudged the outcome of the match between Germany and Portugal.
On June 13, 2014, Nelli the Elephant predicted the Battle of Germany and Portugal, after 87.5% accuracy of the elephant Nelli predicted portugal to win.
In addition to the camel Shahhn, at the World Cup in Brazil, the German launched the star player "Nelly", which is said to be 18 months old at the time, and guessed 33 games correctly in 30 games at the 2012 European Championships, in addition to Germany also introduced the armadillo "Norman". The British, on the other hand, created the tiger-headed dog "Lu" and the 25-year-old turtle "Big Head" to join the battle group. As for Japan, it has a special affection for aquatic animals, and the octopus at the Tokyo Aquarium and the water-jet fish at the Kobe Aquarium have also tried their hands on the ox knife.
On June 13, 2014, Norman the armadillo at the Manster Zoo in Germany predicted the Battle of Germany and Portugal, and it was more optimistic about the German team.
Turtle "Big Head"
Black bears predict the outcome by choosing a watermelon
On June 19, 2014, a large otter named Chippu in Himeji Central Park, Japan, was preparing to predict the outcome of the match between Japan and Greece
Prediction of water-jet fish at the Shinagawa Aquarium in Tokyo, Japan, June 13, 2014
In China, there are no less than ten species of animals competing to predict the World Cup, ranging from primates to birds.
"Alpaca" has long been regarded as a "divine beast" by Chinese netizens, and alpacas "Big Fat" from Tianjin, China, has also joined the "Prophetic Legion".
On June 12, 2014, in Yangzhou, Jiangsu Province, China, a giant panda "predicted" the outcome of the match between Brazil and Croatia.
Although "divine beasts" have emerged in an endless stream over the years, no one has been able to reach the height of Paul the Octopus so far.
Now, a white Persian cat will hit paul's throne in the 2018 World Cup in Russia.
The cute and domineering kitten, named Achilles, belonged to a museum in Moscow, and the museum staff originally planned to let it join the "Cat Guard" - catching mice, but it was later found that it was born deaf and unfit to fight the rat army.
As Achilles grew older, the staff accidentally discovered another talent for it, which was to predict football matches.
Achilles predicted the game by eating cat food, choosing one of his favorite pots of cat food with the flags of both sides of the game.
In the 2017 Confederations Cup, it scored 3 of 4 and hit an astonishing percentage.
Now, the defect of Achilles' deafness has become an advantage, its concentration is very strong, it is not easy to be distracted, and it can "predict" without interference.
At present, the Russian World Cup has invited Achilles to serve as the "prophet", and it also has its own official spokesman, the press secretary of the Winter Palace.
Seeing that the World Cup was about to open, the staff specially made a meow version of the Russian team jersey for Achilles.
Of course, in addition to these "divine beasts", there are also many "prophetic emperors" in the human world.
The most famous of these is Pele, the king of the ball, but his "prophecies" have all become "curses".
Since the 1990 World Cup, Pele's "crow's mouth" has emerged in world football, and the most tragic thing he "harmed" this year was his motherland Brazil. Pele predicted that Brazil would win the championship that year, and as a result, the Samba Army was eliminated in the quarter-finals.
In the 1994 World Cup, he was optimistic about Colombia, and as a result, the team did not qualify.
In 2006, Pele predicted Brazil's strongest power and said England were very likely to reach the final. In the end, Brazil and England both stopped in the quarter-finals.
At the 2010 World Cup, he predicted that Brazil would compete with an African team for the title, and as a result, neither Brazil nor The African team had a good ending.
Before the start of the 2014 World Cup, Pele pointed out that African teams will show strong strength. Cameroon lost. He also pointed out that Spain is the favorite to win the championship. Spain was beaten...
Recently, in an interview with Reuters about Brazil's prospects in the World Cup in Russia, Pele said: We do not have the strength to win the World Cup. However, he later said that Neymar was the best player in the world and that he was able to lift the World Cup this time.
Pele has already started his "performance", I don't know if this year's Brazil is happy or worried...
Every time the World Cup comes, the eyes of the world will gather in the green field, and many merchants, celebrities and netizens will also come to join in the fun.
At the World Cup in South Africa, photos of Feng Jie wearing the jerseys of England, Portugal, Brazil and Argentina were circulated on the Internet. None of the four giants advanced to the final four.
Recently, at the Scene of the Youku World Cup Press Conference, Lu Han was optimistic that the French team led by Geba would win the championship in the World Cup in Russia.
Before the World Cup in South Africa, Nike launched the advertising blockbuster "Kick Out the Legend". However, the ending of the 6 stars in the advertisement is very tragic - Rooney, Ronaldo, Ribery, Cannavaro, Drogba, Robinho's team all returned home early.
During the World Cup in Germany, an advertisement by Adidas also successfully "cursed" the three stars of Ballack, Lampard and Kaka. The three scenes in which Lampard mid-post, Ballack failed to play and Kaka was sent off all really happened at the World Cup.
The ancient and mysterious divination has also become a big door for predicting the World Cup.
At the 2006 World Cup in Germany, a "witch" who had no common sense in football, Gu Juta Carmen, successfully predicted Italy's victory.
A Mexico fortune teller used tarot cards to predict the match at the World Cup in Brazil...
With the development of science and technology, artificial intelligence has also joined the ranks of world cup predictions.
According to the Russian Satellite Network, the Russian Perm State Research University news, the school's students created artificial intelligence (AI) predicts that the German team will win the 2018 World Cup. Perm National Research University said the prediction was more than 80 percent accurate.
Last month, UBS said the Office of the Investment Director of its global wealth management department used economemetric tools commonly used to analyze investment opportunities to make predictions. After 10,000 calculations, the German team has a 24% probability of winning the championship, followed by Brazil and Spain with a probability of 19.8% and 16.1% respectively.
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The World Cup is about to start, how many "prophetic emperors" will emerge this year, we will wait and see!
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