Did England football star Harry Kane say he lost control of his body during the Ghana World Cup match after a witch doctor's "curse"? No, that's not true: In post-match interviews, Kane never mentioned any physical problems, but instead discussed strategy and Ghana's strength as an opponent. There is no evidence that he said any of the words attributed to him in the social media claim.
The claim appeared in a post and image (archived here) by the @FootballFactly account on X on June 24, 2026. It read:
🚨 Harry Kane says he had no control over his body during the match against Ghana. 👀
This is what the image included in the post looked like:
(Image source: post by @FootballFactly on X.)
The text in the image said:
Something was wrong with my body during the match. My legs were doing something else and I could not control them at all.
Witch doctor
Ahead of the June 23, 2026, kickoff, Ghanaian witch doctor Nana Kwaku Bonsam allegedly claimed that he had placed a spiritual curse on Kane to stop him from scoring in the World Cup clash, which ended in a 0-0 draw. Following the match, Bonsam said on his Instagram account (archived here) on June 24, 2026, that he had lifted the curse:
I am the most powerful spiritualist in the whole world now I am going to release Harry Kane so that his next match he can score a goal ...
In an LBC interview (archived here) posted on X on June 24, 2026, Bonsam also stated that the curse was off:
'He's going to perform very good, you mark my words.'
The Ghanaian witch doctor who put a curse on Harry Kane confirms it has been lifted.
The post is embedded below:
"He's going to perform very good, you mark my words."
-- LBC (@LBC) June 24, 2026
The Ghanaian witch doctor who put a curse on Harry Kane confirms it has been lifted.@HenryRiley1 tries to recruit him to the England cause... pic.twitter.com/HegUgr5Jsl
Post-match interviews
Lead Stories listened to three different post-match interviews (available here, here and here, with archived versions here, here and here), and in none of them did Kane say the words attributed to him in the social media post.
News searches
Lead Stories searched Google News (archived here) and Yahoo News (archived here) and found no reports from credible news outlets containing the alleged Kane quote: "Something was wrong with my body during the match. My legs were doing something else and I could not control them at all." Kane's post-match comments were widely reported, and any such comments would almost certainly have been widely reported as well.
