As the 2018 World Cup kicks off in Russia, a psychic pig has given hope to Nigerians by predicting that the Super Eagles will get to the semi-finals of the tournament.

The black micro pig called Mystic Marcus, which had rightly predicted that Donald Trump would become the president of the United States of America has a history of predicting winners and rightly.

Juliette, owner of the pig, used 32 apples with flags of all the participating countries and Mystic Marcus was made to eat the four semi-finalists.

After eating Argentina, the pig sniffed out Saudi Arabia and Iran before choosing Nigeria

The other countries it  picked out were Belgium, Argentina and Uruguay.

“Marcus is the seventh child of a seventh child and apparently they’re gifted with special powers so maybe that’s where it comes from,” farmer and micro pig breeder, Juliette from a village in England told reporters.

“A few years ago I was invited on a radio show because of Paul the octopus predicting results and they wanted to see if I had any animals that had the ability.

“I hadn’t tried the seventh child theory out so thought I’d give it a go. They used apples and oranges and Marcus predicted the football results, it was amazing,” she added.

There have been reports of psychic animals who rightly predicted football results like Paul the Psychic Octopus which became very popular at the 2010 World Cup in South Africa.

Octopus correctly predicted the results of eight games during the 2010 FIFA World Cup including the final.

Staff at the Oberhausen Sea Life Aquarium in Germany fed Paul mussels with colours of either Germany or their opponents and the one it ate first, went on to win the games. Paul died in October 2010 aged two-and-a-half.

 

If Mystic Marcus’ prediction becomes true, the Super Eagles of Nigeria will be the first African country to make it to the semi-finals of the FIFA World Cup.

Cameroon (Italy 1990), Senegal (Korea/Japan 2002) and Ghana (South African 2010) are the only African countries that have reached the quarter-finals of the FIFA World Cup.

The farthest the Super Eagles have gone in the World Cup is the round of 16 which they reached at USA 1994, France 1998 and Brazil 2014.