Witch Doctor Cursed Australia's Team

During qualification for the 1970 World Cup, members of Australia's national soccer team consulted a witch doctor before facing Rhodesia in Mozambique. He buried bones beside the goalposts and cursed Rhodesia, after which Australia won the deciding match 3-1. When the players failed to pay the 1,000 pounds he demanded, he supposedly cursed Australia instead, and the team failed to qualify after losing its final playoff against Israel. Australia reached the 1974 World Cup, but then missed every tournament for 32 years until qualifying again in 2006, one year after Australian television host John Safran staged a curse reversal in Mozambique.

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