Rapper Drake has placed a $1.5 million (\u20ac1.3 million) bet on Argentina beating Spain in the 2026 Fifa World Cup final.<\/p>\n
The God\u2019s Plan rapper, born Aubrey Drake Graham, shared a screenshot of the online bet he placed on Stake ahead of the final at New York New Jersey Stadium on Sunday.<\/p>\n
The 39-year-old put his money behind the South American team which, if they win, will see a payout of more than $5.1 million (\u20ac4.5 million).<\/p>\n
Sharing a screenshot of his bet on Instagram he said: \u201cWhat\u2019s that saying??? Better luck next time\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n
It comes after the Canadian artist previously lost a one million-dollar bet he placed on Irish Conor McGregor fighter winning his UFC bout against Max Holloway.<\/p>\n
The rapper has gained a reputation over the years dubbed \u201cthe Drake curse\u201d where sport teams or athletes photographed with or bet on by the artist are doomed to lose.<\/p>\n
A website, named TheDrakeCurse.com, has even been created to log his full sport betting history.<\/p>\n
It comes months after the Canadian released his three new albums \u2013 Iceman, Maid Of Honour and Habibti \u2013 all at once in May.<\/p>\n
The trio of records marked his first releases since 2023, and secured Drake his seventh number one album on the UK album chart with Iceman.<\/p>\n
The five-time Grammy winner is also known for the songs One Dance, Passionfruit and Hold On, We\u2019re Going Home.<\/p>\n
He was previously at the centre of a headline-making feud with US rapper Kendrick Lamar, where the American musician insulted Drake in the diss track Not Like Us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rapper Drake has placed a $1.5 million (\u20ac1.3 million) bet on Argentina beating Spain in the 2026 Fifa…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":557185,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-557184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=557184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557184\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/557185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=557184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=557184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=557184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}