Italian football club Roma has banned their players from posing for photos with rap star Drake after he gained a reputation as being a bad luck charm to sports stars.
The Serie A side issued the order over the “Drake curse”’ theory, which re-emerged when Paris Saint-Germain’s Layvin Kurzawa became the latest footballer to pose for a photo with the Canadian star only to see his team lose their very next game.
PSG’s spectacular 5-1 loss to Lille on Sunday reignited suspicions about the God’s Plan singer, who has posed with a string of footballers during his Assassination Vacation tour at venues across Europe in the last month.
Paul Pogba saw him perform at the Manchester Arena and got a picture taken with him not long before Manchester United lost 2-1 to Wolves in the FA Cup last month.
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And Arsenal’s Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang was at one of Drake’s shows at the O2 in London before losing 1-0 to Everton the following weekend.
Sergio Aguero is the third Premier League player people think Drake has cursed after missing a penalty in the Champions League as Man City lost 1-0 to Tottenham earlier this month.
The rapper is also getting the blame for Borussia Dortmund losing 5-0 to Bayern Munich after hanging out with their English starlet Jadon Sancho.
Drake became a global ambassador for NBA team the Toronto Raptors club 2013. But they’ve developed a reputation for losing big games in the last six years.
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In 2015, tennis ace Serena Williams was trying to become the first woman to win all four Grand Slams in a calendar year since Steffi Graf in 1988.
But that was the year Drake was spotted watching her games.
And last year, UFC fighter Conor McGregor lost in the fourth round against Khabib Nurmagomedov.
Before the fight he’d been hanging out with... Drake.
