Radio Shack Helping Mexico VooDoo USA Soccer

[UNHWildCats]

MEXICO CITY (AP) -- A Mexican sports daily is pinning its hopes of beating the United States in a World Cup qualifying match on voodoo -- with help from a U.S-based electronics chain.

An advertisement in the sports daily Record on Tuesday invited fans to clip coupons and redeem them at their local Radio Shack store for a voodoo-doll likeness of a U.S. player. The hope was that a little black magic might help Mexico break a decade of futility on the road versus its northern neighbor.

"Help end the losing streak so Mexico advances," the ad read.
An illustration showed a pair of scissors slicing off the leg of a doll in a U.S. jersey that was bruised, crying out in pain, leaking stuffing, and stuck with pushpins.

"We imagine a group of young people gathered around the TV supporting Mexico and applying punishments to our rivals so that the team can qualify," Record said in a statement.

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2009/soccer/01/27/mexico.voodoo.ap/index.html

[nwFL Griz]

Wow.

Words cannot explain how creepy that is.

[93henfan]

Well that's better than throwing bags of piss at our players like they normally do!


During an Olympics qualification soccer match between the US and Mexico (Guadalajara 2004), the stadium erupted in boos during the playing of "The Star-Spangled Banner." Fans yelled "Osama! Osama!" as Mexico's team eliminated the US squad. At a World Cup qualifier the following year, Mexican soccer fans again cheered the al Qaeda mastermind's name. ESPN noted that the audience again booed and whistled during the US national anthem. Plastic bags filled with urine were reportedly tossed on American players.
http://www.nypost.com/seven/05302007/postopinion/opedcolumnists/booing_miss_usa_opedcolumnists_michelle_malkin.htm ?page=0

[TheValleyRaider]

Well that's better than throwing bags of piss at our players like they normally do!

Oh, I'm sure there'll be some of that, too xcoolx