After Manchester City lost their Champions League semi-final to Real Madrid, stories resurfaced about a supposed curse placed on Pep Guardiola stemming from a feud with Yaya Toure.
In reality, their European exit was more down to poor defending and tactical inflexibility than anything supernatural, although football is full of strange tales of curses and hexes. Some even coincide with spooky changes of fortune.
So whether you are a believer or not, the following examples may just make you think.
Racing Club cat curse
The Racing Club cat crisis is one of the weirdest tales in football. In the 1950s and 60s, the Buenos Aires club were one of the most successful in South American football.
When they won the Copa Libertadores and Intercontinental Cup double in 1967, fans of their bitter rivals Independiente decided enough was enough. They broke into the club’s El Cilandro Stadium and proceeded to bury the corpses of seven black cats around the place.
Remarkably, seemingly in an instant, success turned to a trophy drought that lasted decades. Racing Club started taking it so seriously that they performed an exorcism, but that didn’t help. They then resorted to excavating their own pitch, but were only able to find and remove six of the cats.
Finally, in 2001 during stadium renovations, the seventh cat was found. Later that season, Racing Club won the league to end their 37-year trophy drought.
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