World Cup 2014: Brazil fans blame 'curse of Mick Jagger' for their 7-1 defeat to Germany
Rolling Stones front man completes extraordinary run of bad luck by supporting Brazil in their record defeat to Germany
Sir Mick Jagger attended the Brazil v Germany game with his 15-year-old son Lucas, sitting on his left. Photo: Jean Catuffe/Getty Images
Gordon Rayner By Gordon Rayner, Chief Reporter5:30PM BST 09 Jul 2014 Comments9 Comments
He has spent the past 50 years filling football stadiums the world over, but Sir Mick Jagger has become a pariah on match days after earning a reputation for jinxing every team he supports.
An extraordinary run of bad luck over the course of the last two World Cups has seen Sir Mick witnessing the exit of four teams he was supporting, including Brazil during their 7-1 thrashing by Germany on Tuesday.
Even a verbal message of good luck from Sir Mick appears sufficient to guarantee a team’s downfall, after he expressed his confidence in Italy and Portugal before both teams were sent packing.
He is now known in Brazil as Pe Frio, which translates literally as Cold Feet, a Brazilian term for a jinx. He has also been described as The Angel of Doom.
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Superstitious Brazilian fans were so convinced by the Curse of Jagger that they took cardboard cut-outs of the Rolling Stones singer wearing the opposition’s colours in the hope of bringing them bad luck.
The trick worked against Chile and Colombia, but even a cut-out of Sir Mick in a Germany kit with a speech bubble saying “Let’s go Germany!!!” could not ward off the unstoppable force of Germany’s forward line in the disastrous semi-final.
Sir Mick, 70, attended the game in Belo Horizonte with Lucas, his 15-year-old son by the Brazilian model Luciana Giminez. While Lucas wore a Brazil shirt, Sir Mick wore an England baseball cap.
The Brazilian news network R7 described him as “the biggest jinx in history”, which added to a social media backlash against the singer.
Ms Giminez quickly leaped to his defence, saying: “Mick has been successful for 50 years, he’s a good friend and good father to my 15-year-old son.
“He is suffering cyber bullying…and I would like to ask you guys who do this kind of bullying to think before you do it.
“Even though it only seems like a small thing, Mick is a person like us all, and he does not deserve to be treated this way by Brazilians.”
Sir Mick’s bad luck began in South Africa in 2010, when he watched England being knocked out by Germany, then joined Bill Clinton to see USA being knocked out by Ghana. For good measure, he turned out in a Brazil shirt to see Brazil lose to the Netherlands in the quarter-finals.
For most of the 2014 World Cup Sir Mick has been touring with the Rolling Stones, but cemented his reputation as a jinx by telling Portugal fans at a concert in Lisbon their team would win the tournament (they failed to progress beyond the group stage).
He then tweeted a good luck message to England before their group game against Italy (they lost 2-1) and before their game against Uruguay, saying: “Let’s go England – this is the one we win!” England suffered another 2-1 defeat.
At a concert in Rome he told Italy fans their team would beat Uruguay in their final group game, just hours before Uruguay won 1-0 to send Italy home.
Uruguay fans, wise to Sir Mick’s growing reputation as a bad luck charm, took a poster of him wearing an Italy kit to their match, which prompted the craze among Brazil fans for cut-outs of him wearing the colours of Colombia and Chile, both of whom were beaten by Brazil on their route to the semi-final.
Last month, as part of the Rolling Stones’ current world tour, they played gigs in Berlin and Dusseldorf. The good news for Germany fans as they look forward to the World Cup final is that there is no record of Sir Mick lending his support to die Mannschaft.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/fo...k-Jagger-for-their-7-1-defeat-to-Germany.html
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