‘African Players believe in ‘Juju’ men than doctors’ – Osaze Odemwingie reveals

Osaze Odemwingie, a former Super Eagles forward in a new interview said that 70% of African players use juju as he recounted a past experience.

The 36-year-old Nigerian player who was raised in Russia recounted how he was taken to a shaman (native doctor) instead of a medical doctor after he sustained an injury on his hand.

He went on to disclose that it is not a rare occurrence among his colleagues to use juju instead of a medical doctor.

He told Championat;

What did you encounter when I moved to Nigeria at the age of 17? With a football player. In training, I rolled my own two legs, I left the rolled-up roll, but in the fall I also hurt my shoulder and broke my arm. Mom was afraid to tell, so they took me to the local shamans. They poured hot water to relax their muscles.

“Somehow they returned the hand to the place, while I yelled, they twisted some small sticks. They conjured something else to grow better. Some local affairs. Something was connected with the chicken, some kind of rite. I come home, my mother saw the hand: “Broke?”. I answer: “Aha.” They were taken to a regular hospital, anesthesia was done, they put the plaster on. All is well in the end.”

Osaze Odemwingie further said that 70% of African players use juju;

“Just at least 70% of players believe in it. They think that some kind of salve will save them. This is more suggestion. Brainwashing goes. But three years in Nigeria have been helpful to me. They called me to the big league, and there my career developed much faster.”