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Brazil rehearses World Cup goal celebration dances on TikTok
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Some may call them disrespectful, but Brazil will keep dancing every time they score a World Cup goal. Francois Nel/Getty Images
Brazil’s players and many in the audience around the world enjoyed the dance routines after each goal the Selecao scored in Monday’s 4-1 World Cup win over South Korea. But for those who saw them as acts of disrespect towards their defeated opponents, there is bad news: Brazil is not going to stop.
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After qualifying for the World Cup quarterfinals with four goals scored before the break at the 974 Stadium in Doha, Brazilian striker Raphinha was clear: “It’s a problem for those who don’t like it, we’ll keep doing it.” Even before Brazil played their first game in Qatar, the Barcelona striker had revealed that they already had up to 10 dances rehearsed and ready to celebrate.
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Against South Korea, all the celebrations followed the same protocol. After scoring the goal, all the Brazilian players got together, hugged and congratulated the scorer before the quartet made up of Neymar, Lucas Paquetá, Vinicius Junior and Raphinha starred in one of their routines.
The first choreography was based on “Pagodao do Birimbola” by the Brazilian group Os Quebradeiras, one of the most popular songs on TikTok in Brazil. The defining moment came on the pitch, but the rehearsal began earlier, with videos shared between the players while they were in Qatar. The version of the routine that Neymar posted on his TikTok account has had more than 10 million views.
“We send videos daily and, inside the hotel, we just say: ‘It’s going to be that one,'” Paquetá explained. “This is a team where everyone is happy to score goals, happy to win. Everyone celebrates in their own way.”
One observer who did not enjoy the spectacle was Roy Keane, the former Manchester United captain who said in his role as a television analyst: “I don’t like this. People say it’s their culture. But I think that’s really a fault. out of respect for the opposition.
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Paquetá’s simple response to that criticism was to say “the first thing is to respect this” before adding: “Dancing is a symbol, this symbolic way of showing our joy of scoring a goal. We don’t do it to disrespect you, we don’t we make”. “We don’t go in front of the opponent, we don’t do anything. We get together, you see, everyone is here. And then we start celebrating, it’s our moment, we score a goal, then Brazil celebrates.” If he doesn’t like it, I don’t have much to do for him. If we score another goal, we’ll keep celebrating.”
Even Brazil coach Tite got in on the act for one of the goals. After Richarlison scored his team’s third goal after less than half an hour into the match, the 61-year-old tried to dance along with his players to a routine based on “Dança do Pombo” (which translates into English as “Pigeon Dance ” ) by Mc Faisca and the Persecutors. He did so surrounded by his players in front of the Brazil bench, a request by the coach so that it would not appear that they were disrespecting their opponents.
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“We try to adapt to the characteristics of the athletes. They are very young and I have to adapt a bit to them. They have the language of dance, ”explained Tite, who revealed that before the“ Danca do Pombo ”he had tried to follow the players in another routine but found it too difficult. “That [‘Danca do Pombo’] I can do something similar, but a little worse. So I said yes [Richarlison] sheet music, he can do it and I’m going to dance.
Tite added that he made sure his celebration was not seen as a way of mocking his counterparts on the South Korean bench, adding: “There will always be the bad guys who will say it was disrespectful. So, I asked the players to hide me for a while. I know visibility, there are many cameras, and I didn’t want there to be any other interpretation than true happiness for the goal, for the team, for the performance, for the result, and not a lack of respect for the opponent , as it isn’t. But I couldn’t hide it.”
Ahead of Friday’s quarterfinal against 2018 finalists Croatia, Brazil already have a candidate to be their next choreographed goal celebration: a routine set to the song “Aquecimento Senta Senta Suave” by Buarque, a friend of Vinicius Jr. , and MC Kevin O Chris.
The Real Madrid striker joked with Brazilian streamer Casimiro: “God willing, until the final, there’s a lot of dancing.”
This article was first published by ESPN Brasil and has been translated from Portuguese.
