Well the timing of the injury is little bit sketchy, so who knows.
So here’s the scoop, according to ESPN FC a Ghanaian witch doctor claims that he’s responsible for the knee injury that has all of Portugal holding their collective breaths.
Earlier in the week the Portuguese FA made it known that Cristiano Ronaldo was suffering from a “muscle injury on the back of his left thigh as well as left-leg patellar tendinosis” and that he was working to alleviate the problem before the commencement of the World Cup.
Why would the witch doctor go after Ronaldo you ask? Because Portugal and Ghana are in the same group along with Germany and the United States, and it would benefit his country if arguably the best player in the world wasn’t playing at an optimum level when they square off.
Nana Kwaku Bonsam, a witch doctor whose name translates as “The Devil of Wednesday” and who plies his trade at the Kofioo Kofi shrine in Kumasi, claims he foresaw Ronaldo’s injury back in February and that it is entirely his doing, according to The Guardian.
Nana Kwaku claims that he inflicted the injury on Ronaldo in a bid to help his native Ghana make it out of Group G unscathed.
“I know what Cristiano Ronaldo’s injury is about, I’m working on him. I am very serious about it,” he told local Kumasi-based radio station Angel FM.
“Last week, I went around looking for four dogs and I got them to be used in manufacturing a special spirit called Kahwiri Kapam.
“I said it four months ago that I will work on Cristiano Ronaldo seriously and rule him out of the World up or at least prevent him from playing against Ghana and the best thing I can do is to keep him out through injury.
“This injury can never be cured by any medic, they can never see what is causing the injury because it is spiritual.
“Today, it is his knee, tomorrow it is his thigh, next day it is something else.”
I wonder if this witch doctor is also a San Antonio Spurs fan…