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Brazil has no sympathy for the devil Mick Jagger’s Cup jinx

If you had one word to sum up Brazil’s current feelings about Mick Jagger: Dissatisfaction.

The 70-year-old Rolling Stones frontman was in Belo Horizonte for Tuesday’s World Cup semifinal in which host Brazil was absolutely dominated by Germany, 7-1, cementing his reputation as World Cup jinx.

His run as a cooler began in 2010, when Jagger attended the United States’ Round of 16 match against Ghana with former president Bill Clinton. The Stars and Stripes lost 2-1 in extra time.

He then moved on to support his native England in their Round of 16 game against Germany — and the British were handed a lopsided 4-1 defeat.

To complete the trifecta, he supported against Brazil against the Netherlands — he has a child with Brazilian model Luciana Gimenez — and they lost to the Dutch, 2-1.

Four years later, it’s apparent that Jagger still has his hexing power.

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At a May concert in Lisbon, he played to the crowd by saying Cristiano Ronaldo would lead Portugal to World Cup victory. They didn’t even advance out of the group stage.

Last month, at a concert in Rome, he predicted Italy would defeat Uruguay in its final group game. Instead, Uruguay eliminated the Italians with a  1-0 victory made infamous by Luis Suarez’s bite of Italy’s Giorgio Chellini.

And Jagger once again jinxed his native country, tweeting the British would beat Uruguay on June 19. You know the rest — Uruguay beat England, 2-1.

These events led Brazilians to nickname Jagger “pe frio,” a term for bad luck which translates to “cold foot.” In order to reverse the bad karma, fans brought cardboard cutouts of him wearing the opposing team’s shirt and offering a supporting message.

Unfortunately, it couldn’t stop the German onslaught, and now Brazil is left to pick up the pieces.