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During the 2006 World Cup, Ukraine defender Vladislav Vashchuk, after a 4-0 defeat to Spain, gave the most bizarre excuse.
Apparently, frogs outside the team's hotel in the east German town of Potsdam had croaked all night before the game, leaving them without a wink of sleep, tired and out of sorts.
"We all agreed that we would take some sticks and go and hunt them, " he said then. He sounded serious!
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