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Uri Geller impresses staff at the museum

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<p>World-famous TV personality and self-proclaimed psychic Uri Geller visited the FIFA museum on Friday 15 April 2016 - and he impressed a few members of staff along the way too. The Israeli illusionist met the museum&rsquo;s Managing Director Stefan Jost and demonstrated the spoon-bending technique that first won him fans all around the world in the 1970s. </p> <p>Geller, who was in Switzerland to give a lecture on the power of positive thinking, also left an artistic signature in the museum&rsquo;s guest book and posed for pictures with various members of the museum team. The showman has something of a history in football, dating back to 1996 and a <a target="_blank" href="http://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/scotsol/homepage/sport/4351210/Gary-McAllister-on-missing-THAT-penalty.html">Euro '96 match between Scotland and England</a>. As co-chairman of English club Exeter City, he helped bring pop star Michael Jackson and fellow illusionist David Blaine to a 2002 fundraising event for the football team. </p> <p>He told staff that he had been working with profossional footballers recently but could not reveal who exactly. You can see some photos from his visit below. </p> <p></p>