Uri Geller has a newly-declared micronation and he wants to form a football team

Taking pride in our homelands can come in many different forms – through shared history, culture and other shared interests close to our hearts.

But for many, it’s sport that brings out the fiercest patriotism.

This week, world renowned illusionist Uri Geller declared his Scottish island a micronation.

Lamb Island is situated off the east coast in the Firth of Forth and was bought by the spoon-bending celebrity in 2009.

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Uri Geller to set up football team for the Lamb, illusionist announces

URI Geller has announced he will be setting up his own national football team, after declaring the Lamb as its own micronation, complete with logo, flag and anthem.

 

The Israeli illusionist purchased the island, off North Berwick, in 2009 for £30,000, with the belief it held a mystical connection with ancient Egypt and hidden buried treasure.

Mr Geller is now offering citizenship of the Lamb for $1, with all proceeds going to a charity for children with heart conditions in Israel.

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URI-KA Uri Geller to set up football team on Scots island as spoonbender appeals for players to sign up

BARMY Uri Geller is setting up a football team on his Scots island after turning it into a micro-nation.

The Israeli spoonbender bought the Island of Lamb, on the Firth of Forth, ten years ago and people can now become citizens.

Now he’s announced that for just one dollar anyone can claim Lamb nationality and become eligible for its “national” side.

Geller, 75, said: “It’s as big as a football pitch. We’ll put up the goalposts and play with my logo.

“We have a flag, we have a constitution and we have an anthem. And now I’m going to have a football team.”

The music for the anthem – entitled My Island – was written by the great grandad of one of Uri’s pals.

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Uri Geller reveals his new football team with hopes it can ‘reach the World Cup’

Uri Geller has become chairman of a Scottish football team – and dreams of one day taking them to the World Cup.

The psychic revealed his future goals for his micronation, Lamb Island in the Firth of Forth, earlier this month.

After creating an official anthem and flag, he told Metro.co.uk of his hopes for a dedicated sports team to represent the island.

Now, less than two weeks later, Uri’s dream has become reality.

 

The famous spoon-bender has teamed up with North Berwick Amateurs FC, soon to be nicknamed the ‘Lambies’ under their new name.
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Uri Geller makes exclusive video for the Courier as he adopts North Berwick team

A NORTH Berwick amateur football club is starting its journey to the top after Uri Geller adopted them as the national side of his newly proclaimed micronation on the Lamb.

The Israeli illusionist purchased the island in 2009 for £30,000, with the belief it held a mystical connection with ancient Egypt and hidden buried treasure.

As part of his nation unveiling, he revealed a flag, anthem, constitution and notably the desire to start a football team.

 

Now, North Berwick Amateurs FC have become that team, renaming themselves North Berwick Lamb Football Club.

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Bend It Like Geller: Famous Psychic Turns His Powers to a Soccer Team

FALKIRK, Scotland—The players from the seaside town of North Berwick were up against it in the clash against local favorites Mill AFC. Win and they could go top of their local amateur soccer league here in Scotland. But Mill were tough opponents, quick to get in North Berwick’s faces.

The Uri in question is Uri Geller, the psychic propelled to fame in the 1970s for bending spoons with what he said was the power of his mind—and, since August, the North Berwick team’s chairman.

Several years ago, he bought a small rocky island lying off the town’s coast called the Lamb. The place is uninhabited, a wildlife reserve no larger than a soccer field and home to colonies of puffins, guillemots and other seabirds. Mr. Geller says he was drawn to it partly for his belief it might hold relics buried by a pharaoh’s daughter 3,500 years ago. He paid £30,000 for it when it came up for sale, though excavations are prohibited.קרא עוד