Canadian rapper Drake has backed Argentina and Lionel Messi to win the 2022 Qatar World Cup on Sunday. Whereas innocuous at first, the musician has now gained a repute for routinely inflicting unhealthy luck to a group or a participant by selecting to assist them.
The ‘Drake curse’ first got here into prominence in 2016 when the Golden State Warriors, a group that had received 73 common season video games – a report that they took from the 72-10 Michael Jordan-led Chicago Bulls, misplaced 4-3 within the NBA Finals, after main 3-1. Up till that time, no group within the historical past of the NBA had misplaced a Finals sequence whereas being up 3-1.
The subsequent distinguished ‘Drake curse’ second was when he walked out with Conor McGregor in his light-weight bout towards Khabib Nurmagomedov. The bout was touted as two of the best UFC lightweights ever going towards one another and plenty of thought that McGregor would discover a method to win. As a substitute what adopted was a end by Nurmagomedov within the fourth spherical.
Drake betting on Argentina to win the World Cup whereas carrying a Napoli high 🇦🇷 pic.twitter.com/EfP8OmmMRr
— Italian Soccer TV (@IFTVofficial) December 17, 2022
Simply in 2022, Drake wager on Kamaru Usman, a dominant UFC welterweight champion. Usman led his combat for 4 rounds after which was knocked out within the final spherical in an unlikely trend. Drake additionally backed Barcelona to beat Actual Madrid within the El Clasico derby which Madrid ended up taking 3-1.
The rapper has ‘cursed’ many together with his affiliation and bets and now he has turned his gaze in direction of Argentina. “I’ll take Argentina, he’ll take France. That can be a vibe,” mentioned Drake in a TikTok video, whereas carrying a Napoli jersey. Napoli was the membership the place Diego Maradona performed from 1984 to 1991.
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PremiumArgentina are on the cusp of a World Cup victory. In his second World Cup closing, Lionel Messi goes into the Lusail Stadium with the glimmer of hope – a hope that’s replicated in each Argentine thoughts in addition to his followers internationally. The French are not any pushover although. Kylian Mbappe and Antoine Griezmann have sufficient creativity and tempo in them to interrupt down this Argentine group. And now they presumably might need the best twelfth man ever in Drake.