UKRAINE: FOOTBALL/SOCCER: Fred the 'psychic' ferret unveiled to predict results in Euro 2012

Record ID: 862870

  • Title: UKRAINE: FOOTBALL/SOCCER: Fred the 'psychic' ferret unveiled to predict results in Euro 2012
  • Date: 29th May 2012
  • Summary: KHARKIV, UKRAINE (MAY 28) (REUTERS) PLAQUE READING IN UKRAINIAN 'KHARKIV CITY COUNCIL' JOURNALISTS WAITING FOR THE PRESENTATION OF THE 'PSYCHIC' FERRET FRED THE FERRET IN THE CAGE VARIOUS OF KHARKIV ZOO DIRECTOR OLEKSANDR GRIGORIEV WITH FERRET SOUNDBITE (Russian), KHARKIV FAN ZONE PROJECT MANAGER SERGIY KHARKOV SAYING: "Poland has an elephant fortune teller, if I remember her name right 'Citta', Moscow has a marmoset, Kiev has a hog 'Khryak', and we have the most cute of them all, and the most communicative one, our local Kharkiv's one, born here, ferret Fred." PHOTOGRAPHERS AT WORK SOUNDBITE (Russian), KHARKIV FAN ZONE DIRECTOR OLEG KATKOV SAYING: "Ferret will have precisely 15 minutes in the Fan Zone and in this 15 minutes it will have to predict the winning team." VARIOUS OF FERRET VARIOUS OF DEMONSTRATION OF FRED'S ABILITIES VARIOUS OF CONSTRUCTION WORK AT KHARKIV EURO 2012 FAN ZONE EXTERIOR OF 'KHARKIV CITY COUNCIL'
  • Embargoed: 13th June 2012 13:00
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  • Location: Ukraine
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  • Country: Ukraine
  • Topics: Quirky,Light / Amusing / Unusual / Quirky,Sports
  • Reuters ID: LVAB8FBUCPHEPBKN9U5V7HGN77SC
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  • Story Text: On Monday (May 28) organisers of the Euro 2012 Fan Zone in Kharkiv, Ukraine introduced the latest animal to be given the task of predicting the results of matches during the tournament, Fred the 'psychic' ferret.
    Fred joins soothsayer hog Khryak in Kiev and Citta the elephant in Krakow, Poland and like the other two will appear in Fan Zones where he will choose from plates of food bearing the flags of competing teams, whichever bowl he eats from being declared the favourite.
    "Poland has an elephant fortune teller, if I remember her name right 'Citta', Moscow has a marmoset, Kiev has a hog 'Khryak', and we have the most cute of them all, and the most communicative one, our local Kharkiv's one, born here, ferret Fred," said Kharkiv Fan Zone Project Manager Sergiy Kharkov.
    "Ferret will have precisely 15 minutes in the Fan Zone and in this 15 minutes it will have to predict the winning team."
    The animals have been chosen to follow in the footsteps of Paul the Octopus, who 'predicted' who would win every match Germany played in at the 2010 World Cup in South Africa as well as Spain's win over the Netherlands in the final.
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