AFRICAN FOOTBALLERS PATRONISE NATIVE DOCTORS -ODEMWINGIE

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Former Nigerian international football player, Osaze Odemwingie, has revealed that over 70 per cent of African professional players patronise native doctors.

According to Odemwingie, these African players make use of witch doctors to boost their medical conditions and performances on the pitch.

This was revealed during an interview with the Championat. while explaining how he received treatment from a native doctor in Benin city when he was injured during a football match, the 36-year-old said:

“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 [native doctors]. 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, anaesthesia was done, they put the plaster on. All is well in the end.”

Speaking further, he said “Just at least 70% of players believe in it. They think that some kind of salve will save them.