2023-09-12 07:30:00
By Le Figaro with AFP
Posted 42 minutes ago
Incantations made against Neymar. ERNESTO BENAVIDES / AFP
Peru faces Brazil this Tuesday in a qualifying match for the next World Cup. Some locals want to put all the chances on their side.
Equipped with swords, amulets and a rag doll, around ten Peruvian shamans performed a ritual in Lima on Monday to try to “neutralize» Neymar on the eve of a match against Brazil in the qualifiers for the 2026 World Cup.
In traditional ponchos, these healers, from the mountains, the jungle and the coast, invoked “Tayta Inti” (Father Sun) and placed a rag doll on a photo of the Brazilian attacker, tying his left leg and covering the right with a steel sword.
«We neutralized Neymar by tying his feet. We tied him up so he didn’t have physicality, he didn’t run and he didn’t play well“, explained to theAFP the shaman Félix Rondán.
An altar was set up for the occasion near the National Stadium in Lima, where Peru will face Brazil on Tuesday for the 2nd day of qualifying for the South America region at the 2026 World Cup (kick-off at 2:00 a.m. GMT during the night from Tuesday to Wednesday).
The shaman Walter Alarcón, who also participated in this ancestral spell supposed to weaken the enemy, told theAFP that it was “obscure» the mind of the Brazilian attacker so that he loses his bearings and his objectives.
The healers also placed thorn plants and shells on photographs of other star players of the Brazilian selection, such as Richarlison or Casemiro.
Before the ceremony, they took ayahuasca, a hallucinogenic medicinal plant from the Amazon. “The result will be favorable to Peru, we see a draw but the match will be difficult», on credit Alarcón.
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