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Cruz Azul is About to Learn the Hard Way
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The Union play a Mexican team called Cruz Azul on Thursday night at Subaru Park. This is part of the “Leagues Cup” tournament that no one seems to care about. It’s a forced competition involving MLS and Liga MX and it’s played entirely in the United States, at MLS venues.
Anyway, these jokers posted a picture with their flag on the Rocky statue:
Obviously, they did not get the memo. It was only a few weeks ago that Ecuador fans put their colors on Rocky and then proceeded to lose 1-0 to Ivory Coast at “Philadelphia Stadium” in the World Cup. Then one of their guys tried to reverse the curse by doing a spiritual offering. He placed one beer and one fish stew at the foot of the statue in hex-breaking fashion.
It didn’t work.
They scuffled to a nil-nil draw against Curacao before beating a Germany team that had already qualified for the knockout rounds. Ecuador snuck into the Round of 32 as a third place team and they were promptly dumped by Mexico. They had an underwhelming tournament.
Updating the list now of Rocky statue drapers who went on to lose:
- 2015 regular season (vs. Giants) – Eagles win
- 2018 NFC Championship Game (vs. Vikings) – Eagles win
- 2018 Super Bowl (vs. Patriots) – Eagles win
- 2023 NFC Championship Game (vs. 49ers) – Eagles win
- 2025 NFC Championship Game (vs. Commanders) – Eagles win
- 2026 World Cup – Ivory Coast defeats Ecuador
It doesn’t really matter if Cruz Azul actually put the scarf on Rocky or if this is a photoshop/AI thing. It counts just the same.
Cruz Azul are idiots.
Union will win this game by multiple Doops.
Kevin has been writing about Philadelphia sports since 2009. He spent seven years in the CBS 3 sports department and started with the Union during the team's 2010 inaugural season. He went to the academic powerhouses of Boyertown High School and West Virginia University. email - k.kinkead@sportradar.com