Astrology and Football
Ever since a bunch of coal miners from West Auckland, County Durham won the World Cup in 1909 and then won it again two years later, beating Juventus 6-1 in the final there have been many examples of teams ‘over performing’. In 1979 and 1980 a group of ‘has-beens and journeymen’ from Nottingham won the European Cup. In 2016 Leicester City defied odds of 5000 to 1 to win the Premier League; and the key to such over-achievement? having the right players in the right astrological combinations (of course, and in addition to the players all having positive astro-locality mapping).
In the 2018/2019 season Manchester City won the Premier League title with the following players in their first team squad:
STONES Sun Gemini
LAPORTE Sun Gemini
WALKER Sun Gemini
B SILVA Mars Gemini
GUNDOGAN Mars Gemini
FODEN Sun and Mars Gemini
FERNANDINHO Mars Gemini
MAHREZ Mars Gemini
AGUERRO Sun Gemini
MENDY Mars Gemini
In the summer of 2019 they signed:
CANCELO Sun Gemini
RODRI Mars Gemini
Are there any negatives associated with having so many Sun/Mars Gemini players in a team? Yes, one of the challenges such a team faces is the prospect of all of them being off form at the same time: which requires forward planning.
What about a team on a tight budget?
At the start of the 2015/16 season bookmakers made Leicester City 5000 to 1 to win the Premier League: in other words for a £1 stake you would have won £5,000. Astronomical odds because no one expected them to win: they didn’t have the best players or the finances to compete with elite clubs like Manchester City, Liverpool, Chelsea, Manchester United, Spurs or Arsenal. However, they had astrological cohesion:
SIMPSON Sun Capricorn
FUCHS Mars Capricorn
SCHLUPP Sun Capricorn
DRINKWATER Mars Capricorn
ULLOA Mars Capricorn
VARDY Sun Capricorn
OKAZAKI Mars Capricorn
Leicester didn’t have the best players or the best facilities. They did have the best team. They started winning and kept on winning and won the title against all the odds!
In 2015 I was contacted by an Icelandic coach who had read my books, Football Aims for the Stars and The Astro-Logic of Winning Football. He had applied the methodology and found that his team’s performances significantly improved. He wanted to learn more. Sponsored by the Iceland government he flew to London for a meeting. When he went home he met the national coach. It may be a coincidence but Iceland fielded the following players in 2016:
BODVARSSON Sun Gemini
SKULASON Mars Gemini
BJARNASSON Sun Gemini
GUNNARSSON Mars Gemini
SIGURDSSON Sun Gemini
GUDMUNDSSON Mars Gemini Sun Scorpio
SAEVARSSON Sun Scorpio
HALLDORSSON Mars Scorpio
Iceland knocked a star-studded England out of the European Championships. The England manager was aware of what could be in store at the Euros as I had written to him in advance. I received a polite reply saying that Mr Hodgson had a seventy-strong backroom staff, including sports scientists and a leading sports psychologist who was a consultant at Liverpool FC. It wasn’t appropriate to say that I had given presentations to the Performance staff at Liverpool and they appeared to be applying astrological principles successfully to team building. It may be a coincidence but soon afterwards they signed Virgil van Dijk.
VAN DIJK Sun Cancer Mars Leo
MATIP Sun Leo
TRENT ALEXANDER Mars Leo
LOVREN Sun Cancer Mars Leo
When England won the World Cup 21-year-old Alan Ball was Ramsey’s Man-of-the-Match:
BALL
Sun Taurus | Mars Aries
STILES Sun Taurus | MOORE Sun Aries
J CHARLTON Sun Taurus | HURST Mars Aries
In 2011 Japan won the Women’s World Cup with the following key players:
KUMAGAI Sun Libra
SAWA Mars Libra
SAKAGUCHI Sun Libra
KAWASUMI Sun Libra
ANDO Mars Libra
IWASHIMIZU Sun Libra Mars Aquarius
OHNO Sun Aquarius
MIYAMA Sun Aquarius
England Women have a core group of players who individually are as good as the very best in the world. In 2019 Lucy Bronze was voted UEFA Women’s Player of the Year: an award given to the female considered to be the best player in Europe during the previous season.
Nevertheless, England were knocked out of the 2019 World Cup by the USA, beaten by Sweden in the match for third place and a couple of months later drew with Belgium then lost to Norway.
The USA went on to win the World Cup 2019:
MORGAN Sun Cancer
RAPINOE Sun / Mars Cancer
MEWIS Mars Cancer
DUNN Sun Cancer
Sweden 2 v 1 England
Player of the match: Sweden’s Sofia Jakobsson.
JACOBSSON Sun Taurus
SEGER Mars Taurus
RUBENSSON Sun Taurus
BJORN Sun Taurus
SEMBRANT Sun Taurus
LINDAHL Sun / Mars Taurus
England lacked cohesion especially in defence:
TELFORD Sun Cancer Mars Leo
BRONZE Sun / Mars Scorpio
HOUGHTON Sun Taurus Mars Aquarius
BRIGHT Sun Leo Mars Libra
STOKES Sun / Mars Sagittarius
WALSH Sun Aries Mars Virgo
England Lionised – Euro 2022
In July 2021 England were knocked out of the Olympic Games by Canada in the quarter –finals. In September 2021 Sarina Wiegman took charge. Within 12 months and with more or less the same players England had won their first major title in 56 years. How? History doesn’t repeat Itself, but it often rhymes (Mark Twain): it just did. Playing at Wembley again, against Germany again, leading then conceding a late equaliser and, after extra-time, having scored twice as many goals as them and with another controversial goal-line incident that, once again, the Germans will never forgive or forget – the Lionesses won the Euros.
In 1966 England won the World Cup. Defender Bobby Moore was captain. Alan Ball was Man-of-the-Match in the final. Nobby Stiles and Jack Charlton were defensive stalwarts and Geoff Hurst scored a hat-trick.
J CHARLTON Sun Taurus
STILES Sun Taurus
BALL Sun Taurus Mars Aries
MOORE Sun Aries
HURST Mars Aries
Similarities with 2022: Wiegman made defender Leah Williamson (Sun Aries) captain and wisely recalled Beth Mead (Sun Taurus, Moon Virgo) to partner Ellen White (Sun Taurus) and add cohesion.
WILLIAMSON Sun Aries Mars Virgo
WALSH Sun Aries Mars Virgo
GREENWOOD Sun Virgo
TOONE Sun Virgo Mars Scorpio
RUSSO Sun Aquarius Mars Scorpio
KELLY Mars Aquarius
SCOTT Sun Aquarius
Walsh linked seamlessly with substitute Greenwood and found the technically excellent sub Toone with a precision through-pass for the first goal. Towards the end, subs Russo and Scott made the difference and then Chloe Kelly scored a worthy winner. Overall Player-of-the-Tournament was Moon-in-Virgo Mead.
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