Legendary Ghanaian captain, Asamoah Gyan has stated that black magic (juju) exists in football.
The Black Stars all time leading scorer went ahead to reveal an incident whereby his colts club used juju before their juvenile matches while honing his skills as a footballer.
Speaking in an interview with Dan Kwaku Yeboah, he said; “Anything that has a name exists. We all, like in colts, we all go together and they tell us 'get this and bath with it, do this and that'.
“And if you don’t do it and the team loses, they’ll say you caused the defeat. With Cedar, we did it once or twice. We played Liberty and we were beaten 4-0, but juju is in football. I remember another colts game, a man told us to do something for two goals. Sometimes with a padlock they will tell you if you score one that is it.
"You can get an empty net and shoot wide when the one goal enters, that is it so it (juju) is there. When someone scores a goal people usually say this is a mallam goal they know it (juju) is there," he added.
“We all have what we believe. Someone will close from the church and pass by a mallam. There are a lot of players if they tell the truth they do those things. Someone will not tell you their secret but if you are very observant you will see that something is going on. That person will not tell you there is something going on but if you are observant there are certain things you will see.”
By: Pascal Nii Gogo Amoah
