They were not equipped with gadgets. Nor did they have analytic tool. They did not understand the game either. Still, they went down in the history for making right FIFA World Cup predictions.
They have been as much in the news for their World Cup predictions as the players and team managers who ensured those predicted victories – or suffered disgrace for predicted defeats – in the middle there.
The animal kingdom on our planet is abundant with rare species. Not just because of their uniqueness, strange anatomical, physiological features, or the numbers left on the endangerment scale. Some of them have been bestowed with mystical and clairvoyant powers – or they have instinctually proved that.
From clairvoyant camels and prophetic pandas to one very famous octopus of FIFA World Cup 2014 fame, there are the super animals who grabbed headlines across international media for their very niche ability – The power of predicting the outcome of FIFA World Cup matches.
With each World Cup comes a new soothsaying star, ready to steal the limelight with its bewildering and jaw-dropping revelations about the outcome of matches played during the biggest sporting spectacle on the earth. Memories of Paul the Octopus will still be fresh in the minds of football fans the world over.
After all, tarot card readers and creepy-looking oracles with orbuculum are not the only ones who can predict the future!
InsideSport.co has compiled a list of such super creatures that have grabbed the attention of global football community during FIFA World Cup.
PAUL THE OCTOPUS
If you are a die-hard football fan, you know what we are talking about. During its times, the lovable eight-legged creature has shared the limelight with other international football icons, especially after the FIFA World Cup 2010 in South Africa.
His keepers at the Sea Life Centre in Oberhausen, Germany, would offer him two boxes that contained food and had different countries’ flags on the outside. The cephalopod correctly predicted all seven of Germany’s results during FIFA World Cup 2010, and even correctly chose Spain as the ultimate winner.
ACHILLES THE CAT
FIFA World Cup: No gadgets, no analytics still they made right predictions
No comments:
Post a Comment