African
footballers in the Premier League have been discovered to be using black magic
(juju) to enhance their careers and survive the competitiveness of top level
football, an investigation by the Sun (UK) has revealed.
The
investigation revealed that Premier League stars travel the 9,000-mile round
trips to West Africa to visit Juju men with supposed supernatural powers to
perform rituals which will reduce the risk of injuries and boost their skills.
Tottenham’s
Togo striker Emmanuel Adebayor, 31, recently accused his mother of using Juju
on him during a family feud.
The
Chelsea legend Didier Drogba also told in a book how his former national team
colleague Jean- Jaques Tizie used a bizarre ritual in a cemetery to chase bad
spirits away.
The
former West Brom striker Brown Ideye told the Sun: “I
know players who get involved with the Juju men and they can’t
get out. It’s a trap. They might get short-term benefits, but in
the long run they pay for it. Juju men have a lot of influence.”
He
continued: “These are men who are just trying to make themselves
rich and tell you they can make your life perfect.
“If things like that
worked then instead of Messi and Ronaldo winning world player of the year it
should be some African players. I would advise players not to follow this route
but it’s their choice; I can’t
stop them.”
The
Sun spoke to the wife of one Premier League star and she revealed that her
husband wired about £1,000 a month to a witchdoctor in Ivory Coast.
According
to her, Juju men dictate everything some footballers do, including when to hang
up their boots.
A
Juju man known as Marabout Degla, who the Sun tracked down in a remote town in
Benin, claims to have made some of the world’s top players “top
scorer or best player in the team or the world”.
According
to the report, a ritual called the Troupkéka Milika, which costs around £460,
can be done remotely from Degla’s home in the “sacred
forest” near the city of Parakou.
Degla
warned that during the nine-day ritual a footballer cannot sleep with any woman
and must cover himself with white sheets when sleeping, adding that he offers a
magic ring that would allow a player to dominate a match and his opponents.
Marabout
Degla said the ritual’s cost is protection against witchcraft and black
magic, adding that for the ritual to work “you must remember
orphans, the disabled and work for the promotion of football in your country.”
The
wife of a Premier League player who spoke about her husband’s
relationship with his juju man said he makes numerous trips to his home country
to be cleaned and could sometimes go along with required ritual elements like “a
spotless white goat, lamb or chicken which would be slaughtered
Brown
Ideye also noted that some witch doctors are fake and all they want to do is
scam footballers. He said: “There are many fake
witch doctors driving around in Range Rovers and living in mansions. But the
genuine Juju man lives in a hut with no water or electricity.
“I don’t
think the English players know too much about all this, but some managers are
definitely
aware because the players excuse themselves at the drop of a hat
when the Juju man comes calling.”
It
was also reported that an English team who were once on the eve of a crucial
European match were asked to pay a witch doctor who arrived at the team hotel
£50,000, but the payment was refused by the team captain despite pleas from the
captain’s African team-mate.
The team lost that match with the African player and captain
making mistakes that led to goals and a source said the whole incident was “creepy stuff.”
(Naij.com)
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