{"id":780439,"date":"2026-07-04T20:22:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T20:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/780439\/"},"modified":"2026-07-04T20:22:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T20:22:10","slug":"drake-trying-to-reverse-curse-canada-vs-morocco-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/780439\/","title":{"rendered":"Drake trying to &#8216;reverse curse&#8217; Canada vs. Morocco"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aubrey \u201cDrake\u201d Graham is leaning into a superstition in hopes that it will give Canada\u2019s men\u2019s soccer team the boost it needs against Morocco on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The Canadian rap superstar posted a bet he was placing on Morocco to win on his Instagram Friday night.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWon the last time\u2026gonna try reverse curse strategy,\u201d the caption with his post read.<\/p>\n<p>Drake appears to be poking fun at some of his own sports gambling futility. According to the website\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thedrakecurse.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Drake Curse<\/a>, Drake has lost a little over $555,000 betting on sports.<\/p>\n<p>Now he\u2019s looking to take that bad luck and apply it in a positive manner for his home country.<\/p>\n<p>Canada faces Morocco in the Round of 16 at 1 p.m. ET \/ 10 a.m. PT on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>\t\tKeep it Factual<\/p>\n<p>Add CityNews Vancouver as a trusted source on Google to see more local stories from us.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=vancouver.citynews.ca\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"add-trusted-source-badge\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1778189171_473_google-trusted-badge.png\" alt=\"Add as a preferred source on Google\" width=\"198\" height=\"63\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aubrey \u201cDrake\u201d Graham is leaning into a superstition in hopes that it will give Canada\u2019s men\u2019s soccer team&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":780440,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[49,48,75,341],"class_list":["post-780439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=780439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780439\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/780440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=780439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=780439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=780439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}