Dinamo Zagreb Calls in Spiritual Ghost Buster
Croatia's top soccer team, Dinamo Zagreb, is apparently cursed. Team officials have taken the unusual step of asking Croatia's Catholic Church to provide the team with a priest.
"This club is full of demons and they must be chased away," Dinamo's maverick coach Miroslav Blazevic told Vecernji List daily newspaper Friday.
"The priest would travel with us everywhere, he would be at the players' disposal all the time so they don't need to go to church. He would hold spiritual trainings and boost the family spirit," Blazevic said.
Dinamo, which currently tops domestic standings and plays English side Fulham in the second round of the UEFA Cup, has forwarded its formal request for a priest to the Zagreb Archbishopric, the Kaptol.
Kaptol officials said they were "looking for a suitable person for this demanding job, someone who would have some knowledge of other religions as well, because of the non-Catholic players in Dinamo," the daily said.
If Dinamo Zagreb needs a priest, then the Cincinnati Bengals are going to need an exorcist.
