The 2006 FIFA World Cup Mascot Could Cause Cancer

Goleo VI is giving a lot of headaches to the German organizers of the 2006 FIFA World Cup. After its poor selling performances in the past few months - which was the main cause of the financial disaster of Nici - the world cup mascot seems to create more trouble� this time, to ecologists from around the world.


According to the German ones - Oekotest Ecologic Organization - the mascot contains dangerous substances that could harm the buyers. The small lion contains a chemical compound that is considered to be very harmful to the human body. "This is a very dangerous substance, that affects the defense system of the human body and reduces the fertility", stated the Oekotest representatives.

More, another ecological organization - still German - has made the same observation to the World Cup organizers. "Bund" has stated that the mascot should be retained in the future and that the German football officials should do anything in their power to stop it from being sold.

Oekotest also discovered another product - this time manufactured by "Van Dillen Asiatext" - that has the Goleo VI image on it, and that is harmful for the human body in terms of � cancer danger.

These ecological issues arose only a few weeks after the main manufacturer of the mascot was forced into filing for bankruptcy, due to poor incomings from sold products. But something more was added to the financial disaster that drove his firm out of business, as the owner of Nici is now being investigated of falsifying the annual balance, recording losses of more than 80 billion dollars.