Ethiopia have decided to go spiritual in a desperate bid to overturn the scores ahead of today's final leg of the play-offs of Brazil 2014 World Cup qualifiers, Saturday Mirror gathered.
The players' spotted strange-looking, creamcoloured anklets round their two ankles. Sources disclosed to our correspondent that the bruised Ethiopians, who go into today's game with a 2-1 disadvantage, may have sought spiritual help to overturn the table against Super Eagles right in their backyard.
The players looked so unfriendly at the Channel View Calabar Hotel camp yesterday and refused to speak to curious journalists who sought to know the reasons behind the strange anklets.
Camp sources also told Saturday Mirror that the visitors believed so much on the anklets to stage a massive upset in Calabar. Only players wore the anklets as none of the technical crew members and FA officials joined them in the new found spiritual beliefs.
The anklets could have been misunderstood by Nigerian journalists to be a spiritual thing. However, l think the era where Africans believes they could use "gugu" to win a football match is gone. ;D