Drake bets on Argentina to win, whereas sporting a Napoli jersey

Canadian rapper Drake has backed Argentina and Lionel Messi to win the 2022 Qatar World Cup on Sunday. While innocuous at first, the musician has now gained a repute for routinely inflicting unhealthy luck to a workforce or a participant by selecting to assist them.

The ‘Drake curse’ first got here into prominence in 2016 when the Golden State Warriors, a workforce that had received 73 common season video games – a file 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 workforce 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 in opposition to Khabib Nurmagomedov. The bout was touted as two of the best UFC lightweights ever going in opposition to one another and plenty of thought that McGregor would discover a option to win. Instead what adopted was a end by Nurmagomedov within the fourth spherical.

Drake betting on Argentina to win the World Cup whereas sporting a Napoli prime 🇦🇷 pic.twitter.com/EfP8OmmMRr

— Italian Football TV (@IFTVofficial) December 17, 2022

Just in 2022, Drake wager on Kamaru Usman, a dominant UFC welterweight champion. Usman led his battle for 4 rounds after which was knocked out within the final spherical in an unlikely style. Drake additionally backed Barcelona to beat Real 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 will be a vibe,” stated Drake in a TikTok video, whereas sporting a Napoli jersey. Napoli was the membership the place Diego Maradona performed from 1984 to 1991.

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Argentina are on the cusp of a World Cup victory. In his second World Cup remaining, 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 the world over. The French are not any pushover although. Kylian Mbappe and Antoine Griezmann have sufficient creativity and tempo in them to interrupt down this Argentine workforce. And now they probably may need the best twelfth man ever in Drake.