Any Juju In Soccer?

Is There Any Juju In Soccer? Controversial topic.

Does it Work?

Is it just psycholgical phenomenon?

Recall that prior to 1994 World cup qualification match in Abidjan, Nigeria got a tip-off not to shake their hands with their opponents in Elephant of Cote-Divoire, believing that they will soil their hands with vodoo. We did not shake their hand but we eventually lost 1-2.


My Past Experience(s).

1) Shooting Stars Vs Tonnere Kalala(cameroun)
   1984 African Champions league in Ibadan.
Thephilous Abega collected a pass beat Friday Christopher and the dribble past Raymond King(Goalkeeper) and place the ball  directly towards the middle of the goal post, everybody in the field had said "Thats a goal" only for the ball to bounced, bounced and turned away from the pole. I can never forget it.

2) Stationery Stores(Lagos) Vs 3SC(Ibadan)
    National league in 1992 in Ibadan
  Because they always cause trouble, i sat within the Flaming Supporters.
  3SC got a penalty, while the Stores players were arguing with the Referee, their Supporters brought one big-stomach  juju man around our stand, he was holding a big padlock, covered with so many juju attachments. He was to lock Taofeeq Malik. Within a twinkle of an eye, he locked Taofeeq, he missed the penalty.

Senegal and South africa had once in a while linked with Vodoo to help them win soccer as well.


Do you believe this Juju inspired Victories?

definitely a psychological phenomenon

Guy u must be imagining things, things happen as a result of God's will, so, shelf juju, its not real

Nothin like that

i watched a program on super sport 3 about fulham football club. It was said that papa bouba diop walks around fulhams field spraying chicken blood and reciting incantations. For real. Not kidding.

Upon all the juju, fulham still cannot win, can't play in champions league, can't buy a good striker, can't get a good coach. Can't beat chelsea,. arsenal, manu, or liverpool, can't play in UEFA cup or even inter toto. they just can't do crap.

So people do juju but it doesn't work. if it did Cote d iviore would have won world cup by now.

No juju in the world can stop a thierry henry shot from blasting fulhams net, even if the native doctor stands there himself. the shot will blast him, his juju, his juju pot and bouba diop into the net. and the scoreboard will say GOOOOAAAAAAALLLLL!!!!!

In a documeanary i watched about a year ago. Senegal supporters claimed they used juju on France in the world cup and it worked.

Let me quote two former players

Rashidi Yekini: If there is juju in soccer, Africa ought to have won the world cup since

Felix Owolabi: Its abolutely nonsense!


A camerounian friend once told me about Etoo.
He said he must travel to Yaounde every two weeks to perform some rituals

Secondly, he remind me of Tunisia 2004, where Etoo did not score a single goal in the group stages. He said he throw his boot to the crowd, travel urgently to yaounde, came back fresh to face Nigeria in the quarter finals and scored with his "new boots".

I eventually called him a tribalist because he came from Anglo-Cameroun while Samuel came from Francophone Cameroun.

@Akolawole pls give us good topic to yan about next time,i mean real topic, this one sounds superstitiuos .if truely it works nigeria would have won a ticket to d world cup.

@Pampam

Its not compulsory for you to comment on this, you can just read and move on to better topics

@TwinsTaiye
Good analysis though

@Opeyemi
Thanks, i remember that incident.

that india gist is fake

akolawale
              plz it seems u want to use this thread to insult eto'o or just say something indirectly but u should have come out plainly instead of beating abt the bush.  why why tell all these lies abt a Cameroonian friend who told u whatever rubish abt eto'o.? abeg that one now na big jelousy. na u sef talk that one no cameroonian from where ever no tell u anything like that. it seems u are even confused at one time u say there is no juju and now this yr statement comes to conclude that u belief there is juju in football.coz from yr naration to this story it shows u confirm eto'o truely visits a marabu. too bad if u can say that. anyway, yr openion does'nt count. both u and yr so called cameroonian news vendor. the football wey that boy know both u and yr friend, no body arround una go ever play am. juju or no juju sammy sabi that round object. no argument  

akolawale,
                well, i don't even see any idioms or parables in yr posts so i understand u perfectly well. anyway it's just a forum like u rightly said.

akolawale,
                  new or old member would not stop me from seeing the truth. by the way what's new abt me?. all the same thanks a million 4 wellcoming me on nairaland. it seems u're so concentrated giving reception to all new members. emmmmm i can see how  receptive u are.

We are from a tradition or culture that is deeply oriented toward juju or voodoo belief system and it is often very difficult to be completely divorced  from this line of thinking.  That is why soccer clubs of old are wont to consult juju men (or in some cases put them on their payroll)  on the false assumption that they have the power to conjure spirits that would help them them win matches. Similar thinking is employed when in activities of human endeavor that can only succeed by dint of hard work and extra effort, most people would simply jettison hard work and ask a babalawo to help out.
I remembered in 1984 during the Club Championship final in Lagos, 3SC then known as IICC was pitched against Zamalek of Egypt at the National Stadium in Lagos.  IICC so much believed in juju that they were bold to use the score board to dish out incantations - "ofo" - and their babalawo was visible with his fetish, running from pillar to post.  IICC needed only a goal to win the championship but the goal did not come despite all their scheming. Matter of fact they played Zamalek half field throughout the encounter, yet they could not turn it to advantage.  Even the famous mathematical Segun Odegbami lost a penalty.  What is the lesson?  Juju does not win matches but hard work with prayer to crown the effort of the team with success does.

i heard that gist before. Ologundudu thunder.

Fake or true, its funny.

thats right Nightrider

I read about juju in soccer in papers.

I read Cote D'voire qualified for CAF after ten years of winning the cup.
Simply because the gov refused to pay jujumen who made them win the cup in 1992.
Now in recent CAF the gov settled the bills with those jujumen an d Cote almost won The cup.

About E'too I ve heard those funny stories in grapevine but for the love I have for his football I adore him. If it helps him then well and good. Its a matter of the mind.