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Football player drowns during ritual swim to cleanse team of bad spirits

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Published Date: 08 October 2008
A Zimbabwean football player drowned in a crocodile infested river during a ritual to cleanse his team of bad spirits before a match.
A local paper quoted unnamed sources as saying about 16 players from second division side Midland Portland Cement were told to swim in the Zambezi river in the resort town of Victoria Falls ahead of a match on Sunday.





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  • Last Updated: 08 October 2008 11:31 AM
  • Source: Edinburgh Evening News
  • Location: Edinburgh
 
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08/10/2008 14:25:20
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Skip McClendon,

09/10/2008 11:24:39
Kind of puts Riordan's struggles to get jaked up in Auld Reekie's nightclubs into perspective, dunnit?
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Nisbet,

02/01/2009 17:30:15
Drowning in a crocodile infested river doesn't sound so bad, given the alternative.

 

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