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# Witch Doctor Offers Aid  
To British Soccer Team

NAIROBI, Kenya, Sept. 1 (UPI)—England need worry  
no more about qualifying or even winning the soccer  
World Cup next year. A Kenyan witch doctor has written  
to the national team manager, Sir Alf Ramsey, to offer  
his services to ensure victory.

Sharriff Omar Abubakr describes himself as one of  
East Africa's leading witch doctors and this week wrote  
to the manager.

"Dear Sir Ramsey, I understand that England is anx-  
ious to win back the World Cup in Munich and that the  
chances of this aim are rather slim. I am interested in  
signing a one to two-year contract with you with a view  
to improving England's chances...."

England won the World Cup winner in 1966, still has a tough  
qualifying match in October, against Poland, which must  
be won to ensure a place in the last 16 finalists.

Abubakr, currently guiding the fortune of Kenya's most  
successful club side, The Breweries, described how his  
powers work.

"I forecast the result of a game and then make it  
happen. The first step is to fast. I abstain from sex and  
recite prayers from the Koran.

"During the game, when an opposing player gets the  
ball, I often make him see double or even turn the ball  
into a snake. If the opposing player gets near the goal,  
I can make the ball go wide of target or if my players  
begin to get tired I can make them full of life again," he  
said.

Abubakr said he wanted to turn his powers to the  
international field.

"If I have no luck with Sir Alf, I shall try to sign up  
with a club in Germany."

Many East African soccer clubs use the services of  
witch doctors but the Kenyan Football Association recently  
began a campaign to expel them from the coaches'  
benches.

"Although it is difficult to legislate against the prac-  
tice," said the association secretary, Ian Situma, "We  
are alive to the problem and intend to take every step  
to stamp it out."

"Players should be encouraged to train hard if they  
want to succeed instead of relying on witchcraft—which  
does not help at all."

Most club officials and witch doctors themselves do  
not agree on that statement.

Major teams for years have purchased the talents of  
medicine men to cast spells on their opponents. Recently,  
however, one match had to be abandoned because the  
22 players became involved in a brawl over a witch  
doctor.

Several players were disciplined and the football as-  
sociation of Kenya began a campaign to discourage the  
use of witch doctors.

Witch doctors such as Sharriff Omar Abubakr often  
become wealthy as a result of their work in soccer and  
some find their services are much sought after.

NY Times  
Sept 2, 1973

PROFESSIONAL FOOTBALL TEAMS IN THE U.S.

Gentlemen:

I am, once again...offering my services...  
to help your team get to the Super Bowl,  
and win it.

My power...is thousands of times stronger  
than the African witchdoctor that you  
can read about here in this newsclip...  
and he is currently using the powers of  
his mind to help the top team in Kenya.  
At least, I seriously doubt if he has  
been able to create three simultaneous  
hurricanes; control a radar installation  
with his mind; control an erupting  
volcano with his mind; and so forth...as  
I have done, all documented, and working  
under the observation of seven scientists.

What fascinated me when I read this article  
in the New York Times was...without his  
having any personal knowledge of how I  
work in controlling sports teams...HE USES  
SOME OF THE VERY SAME METHODS AND MECHANISMS.

If I work for you and your team...I will  
attend each and every game your team  
plays...and use the one-in-a-world powers  
of my mind (said to be the most powerful  
human brain in the world by a noted  
scientist) to make your opponents drop  
the football and fumble and miss and  
create situation after situation for your  
team to score. IN DOZENS AND DOZENS OF  
PRO FOOTBALL GAMES OVER THE YEARS I HAVE  
USED MY POWERS TO BRING ABOUT MIRACLES TO  
ENABLE MY TEAM TO WIN A GAME.

Having an "ace in the hole" like me to  
work for you...to help make your team a  
Super Bowl winner...could be of priceless  
value to you

Send me $25,000 for my year's work, plus  
a credit card so that I can travel about  
the country to follow your team and help it...  
and you will have all of my fantastic power  
backing your team this year. And I will  
keep it in the strictest confidence.

First come first served.

Ted Owens (PK Man)

Owens  
Sept. 1973