After a recent (and not yet finished) scandal between Paul Pogba and his brother Mathias, the media in France have again witnessed an interesting story about witchcraft, this time from the French League 1 club Montpellier. In a series of tweets on Friday, Mathias accused his brother of paying a mrogi to put a spell on his France teammate Kylian Mbappe. And speaking of mrogi’s (marabout’s), they are obviously (private or publicly) used not only in Africa but in France too, mainly as a way of protecting footballers from any evil spells or breaking a curse. And the controversial late president of Montpellier Louis Nicollin used one mrogi to break a chain of bad results by his players, who were smirch with chicken blood.Pogba, Alou Diarra’s mrogi, spells on Mbappe and butterflies at the EURO 2016If there was a club’s president ready to do such a thing, it was Nicollin, a controversial figure in the world of football and a successful businessman who died in 2017 from heart attack. He took over Montpelier, an amateur club back in 1974 and won the championship of Ligue 2 in 1987, the Coupe de France in 1990, and Ligue 1 in 2012. Famous players like Laurent Blanc, Eric Cantona, Roger Milla, Carlos Valderrama and Olivier Giroud played for ‘La Paillade’, who against all odds won the League 1 ten years ago, against all odds.Olivier Giroud has revealed how close he was to joining #CelticFC in 2010 from Tours.Legendary Montpellier president Louis Nicollin gave him a call and asked: “What the fuck are you going to do in Scotland?”And so he joined Montpellier instead.— Robin Bairner (@RBairner) June 6, 2020 But back in 1989, before they even won the French Cup, they were in crisis, with a couple of consecutive defeats. Enough for Nicollin (a member of the Masonic Lodge of Montpellier by the way), who decided he needed someone to break the bad spell. He summoned a mrogi, and the players, unaware of the process, were soon faced with chicken blood on their jerseys.”We were in the doldrums, Loulou had it in mind that we had been marabouted. We arrive at training, there was a marabout and a cage with a hen. Loulou says to Michel Mezy: ‘We are going to be unbewitched.’ All of a sudden, this guy cut off the head of the chicken running in the locker room, he was stealing blood from everywhere, we received squirts, Julio Cesar yelled: “Help! Help!” Our tracksuits were full of blood” recalls Franck Lucchesi, former Montpellier defender.And here it is: first fans boycott due to Covid measures starts in FranceLucchesi also said to L’Equipe that sporting director Michel Mezy didn’t want to participate, as well as coach Aime Jacquet, who was outraged, but Nicollin still did it. Lucchesi recalls that those players who didn’t have the blood spatter after the marabout finished the job, did not play in the next match against Toulon. Another former player Fabien Lefevre, remembers having experienced some whims of Nicollin for these wizards and other marabouts.”We all had to play in yellow (during a European Cup match), the leaders wore a yellow T-shirt under their shirts” he said, specifying that he never experienced scenes voodoo in the locker room.##NAJAVA_MECA_6667966##
