The Uruguay football team believes their hotel rooms were sabotaged with termites. The infestation was discovered shortly after the team flew into Fortaleza for their match against Costa Rica in the 2014 World Cup, according to Mirror Online.
Uruguayan players awoke in the middle of the night on June 13 to discover swarms of insects, which were later determined to be termites, crawling on their bed sheets. All signs point to sabotage.
"...A police source told a local paper officers suspected someone had placed them there deliberately because a search of the rooms by three teams ahead of the Uruguayan squad arrival - including police and nuclear weapons experts - had turned up nothing," Jeremy Armstrong of Mirror Online wrote on Wednesday.
The Tribuna do Ceara, via Mirror Online, quoted an unnamed police source as saying: "The (inspectors) checked the rooms in search of bombs and chemical and nuclear weapons. Afterwards they were sealed off by hotel workers and handed over to FIFA. It's impossible these men didn't see the swarm."
Muslera tweeted a picture of the infestation.
Buen diaaaaa!!! Miren quien nos despertó a las 2 am!!! Ajaja nada mejor que un buen anti alérgico!! pic.twitter.com/AJsV3wE5xl
— Nando Muslera (@1_Muslera_25) June 13, 2014
Despite the surprise of discovering termites in his sheets, Muslera took it in stride and dismissed it as "comical." Muslera said he and Rodrigo Munoz, whom Muslera was rooming with, called reception and had the bed sheets changed.
The police are investigating the infestation, according to Mirror Online.
