After the Black Stars were eliminated from the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, former head drummer Joseph Langabel made some outlandish comments about the national squad.
The football fan claims that the Black Stars’ loss to Uruguay in their last group-stage encounter was due in part to a woman called Abiba, who visited the team’s hotel to work on the players’ haircuts.
According to Langabel, Ghana has never won a big event when “the woman comes around,” an allusion to the hairdresser, who he claims brings ill luck to the country.
In a video that has been going around, he also claims that, for unknown reasons, she often stays at the player’s hotel.
Langabel said he had to ask the Black Stars’ manager in Qatar why the woman had been readmitted to the hotel the day before the game against Uruguay.
“I have been with the Black Stars for a very long time so I know what’s happening with the team. There’s this lady who mostly visits the players at the team hotel to work on their hairstyles.
“Anytime this lady called Abiba visits the players to work on their hairstyles at the team hotel she’ll be there from evening till the next morning and I’m surprised.
Langabel also cited 5 instances where Abiba’s presence in the Black Star camp brought bad luck to the team.
“In every major tournaments that we have participated from Equitorial Guinea, Egypt, Brazil and others that this lady has visited the players at the team hotel to do their hair we end up losing the next match.
“I saw her climbing up the team hotel with the Black Stars manager and Salisu in Qatar a day before our match against Uruguay so I asked the manager that why did they allow this girl to the hotel and he said some of the players wanted to do their hair.
