The 2008 Euro Cup brought a new way of experiencing national team football to Spain. The national team had accustomed its citizens to failure on the key day or to suspicious refereeing decisions that would ruin the chances of a team that seemed like it was going to be the good one that year.
At the continental tournament in Austria and Switzerland, the players coached by Luis Aragons aroused passions with an immaculate group stage. However, the dreaded quarter-finals and an old acquaintance, Italy, arrived. Pessimism took hold, especially among the older population, who were only told that they had already experienced this story.
Meanwhile, in an aquarium in the German city of Oberhausen, an octopus named Paul began making predictions that were broadcast on television across the country. His figure took two more years to arrive in Spain, during the World Cup in South Africa, but his predictions They already had a high probability of success in the 2008 summer tournament.
The future of the Spanish national team since that fateful quarter-final against Italy is well known, as is that of the famous octopus Paul.The cephalopod created a trend based more on the show than on the science of animals that predicted everything from football games to political elections. One of the best known today is the perro Steph Furry, which makes baskets on a ladder simulating the result of the games. However, the mechanics can be taken to a large scale with much more impressive animals.
This is what they have done at the Madrid Safari, in Aldea del Fresno, with the elephant Baby. With the TardeAR cameras as witnesses, the pachyderm has chased its keeper towards two boxes with the flags of Spain and England, inside which there was fruit. Without hesitation, she knocked over the Spanish box, eating all the food inside. Of course, her other roommatehas gone straight for the British.
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