{"id":7329,"date":"2012-06-11T16:51:08","date_gmt":"2012-06-11T16:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=7329"},"modified":"2012-06-11T16:51:08","modified_gmt":"2012-06-11T16:51:08","slug":"euro-cup-citta-the-elephant-predicts-polish-win-over-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=7329","title":{"rendered":"Euro Cup: Citta the elephant predicts Polish win over Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/football\/euro-2012.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Euro Cup\" width=\"250\" height=\"156\" style=\"float: left; border: 0; margin: 6px;\" \/>Warsaw: <\/strong>Poland will beat leaders Russia in their Euro 2012 Group A clash on Tuesday, at least according to Citta, a fortune-tellng elephant, local Polish radio reported Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The Russians demolished the Czech Republic 4-1 in their Friday opener, whereas the Poles could only draw 1-1 against Greece. Citta, a 33-year-old elephant who lives at Krakow Zoo, selected a melon symbolizing a Polish victory, rejecting others representing a Russian win or a draw in the coming match in Warsaw.<\/p>\n<p>She beat out competition from a parrot and a donkey to get the job as Euro 2012 fortune-teller by correctly predicting Chelsea&#8217;s victory over Bayern Munich in the Champions League final, but got off to a bad start, wrongfully prophesying a Polish win over the Greeks.<\/p>\n<p>Zoo officials are organising a show for Citta to predict the winner of every match featuring Poland, and all the games in the knockout stage of the tournament.<\/p>\n<p>It was the eerily accurate predictions of Paul the Octopus at the 2010 World Cup that started the psychic animal craze.<\/p>\n<p>Paul correctly predicted the outcome of every match Germany played, as well as Spain&#8217;s victory over The Netherlands in the final.<em> (IANS)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/football\/euro-2012.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Euro Cup\" width=\"250\" height=\"156\" style=\"float: left; border: 0; margin: 6px;\" \/>Warsaw: <\/strong>Poland will beat leaders Russia in their Euro 2012 Group A clash on Tuesday, at least according to Citta, a fortune-tellng elephant, local Polish radio reported Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The Russians demolished the Czech Republic 4-1 in their Friday opener, whereas the Poles could only draw 1-1 against Greece. 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