The curse of the cat that eliminated Brazil from the World Cup - Soccer
The curse of the cat has come upon Brazil. What happened between Monday 5 and Friday 9 December? Four days before the green and gold overwhelmed South Korea in the round of 16 of the World Cupeven involving coach Tite in the dance of appleof the pigeon, the typical exultation of the center forward Richardson. Four days later, in the quarterfinals, they were beaten on penalties by Croatia, Neymar cried on the pitch – also consoled by Leo, 10 years old, son of Perisic – and Tite resigned.
Brazil, the press conference and that bad gesture
Between that Monday and that Friday there was "cat Wednesday". The press conference of Vinicius Junior, which was also attended by an unexpected four-legged guest, who managed to sneak into the room and climb onto the microphones' banquet. The Real Madrid striker looked at him laughing and so did the communications officer of the South American national team. Vinícius Rodrigues. However, after caressing him a bit, he took him by the back and threw him to the ground without any regard. To then marvel at the astonishment of those present: "That's how you do it with cats, right?" The feline was not hurt in the landing but the scene, on live TV, sparked an avalanche of indignant reactions. And the sentence arrived on Twitter: "With this gesture you have ensured your elimination from the World Cup. You will not win it".
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Brazil, the cat adopted and named Hexa
Brazil immediately understood the sensational own goal. And it involved the Regional Council of Veterinary Medicine of the State of São Paulo who in a statement declared: "in that gesture there is no element that can be defined as ill-treatment". Although, as all feline enthusiasts know, it is wrong to take them by the scruff, a flap of soft skin: there they are very sensitive and feel more pain. After the press release, the baptism: the cat was adopted by the national team staff, who gave it an auspicious name, "Hexa": or hex it is the obsession of the Brazilians, the sixth soccer World Cup they have been waiting for for twenty years.
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by our correspondent Emanuele Gamba
Brazil, Islam and the love of cats
But nothing could stop the curse for the bad act, committed moreover in Qatar, an Islamic country. The Muslim religion teaches its faithful that the cat is a creature to be loved and cared for with care and to be treated lovingly. Mistreating a cat is a grave sin, which deserves divine punishment. Even the Prophet Muhammad he had his favorite cat, Muezza: he was so fond of him that when he gave sermons he let him rest on his lap. One more caress would have been enough to perhaps give us a world semifinal between Argentina and Brazil.
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