NCBI ROFL: World Cup Week: World cup soccer players tend to be born with sun and moon in adjacent zodiacal signs.

Discover how birth dates of World Cup soccer players align with zodiac signs and moon phases to reveal intriguing patterns.

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World cup soccer players tend to be born with sun and moon in adjacent zodiacal signs. "The ecliptic elongation of the moon with respect to the sun does not show uniform distribution on the birth dates of the 704 soccer players selected for the 1998 World Cup. However, a uniform distribution is expected on astronomical grounds. The World Cup players show a very pronounced tendency (p = 0.00001) to be born on days when the sun and moon are in adjacent zodiacal signs."

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