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| Paraguayan league leaders Olimpia were greeted by four toads, each with red ribbons tied around them, in the dressing room when they visited Deportivo Santaní on Friday night. | |
| The Olimpia delegation also complained of a strong odour of medicine when they arrived at the Estadio Juan José Vázquez for their league match. Paraguayan media suggested that supporters of the home team had placed the toads in different parts of the dressing room to bring bad luck to the visitors. At least one of the toads was dead, reports said. | The Olimpia delegation also complained of a strong odour of medicine when they arrived at the Estadio Juan José Vázquez for their league match. Paraguayan media suggested that supporters of the home team had placed the toads in different parts of the dressing room to bring bad luck to the visitors. At least one of the toads was dead, reports said. |
| “I’ve been told about this but I don’t know who did it,” Santaní president Nestor Arevalos told Radio Monumental. “I don’t believe in these things, for me it’s 11 players against 11 players.” | |
| The match was the first to be played under floodlights at Santaní’s tiny in the department of San Pedro. However, Olimpia poured cold water on the celebrations by winning 4-0, leaving them four points clear of Cerro Porteno at the top of the table. |