DOHA, 6 Dec: The joy and the dancing \u2014 are back for five-time champion Brazil at the World Cup.
\nThe big win over South Korea on Monday secured Brazil a berth in the quarterfinals in Qatar. It also restored the team\u2019s confidence after a tumultuous start to the tournament in which the Sele\u00e7ao lost Neymar to injury and saw its unbeaten group-stage streak end in a defeat to Cameroon.
\nBut Neymar retuned in style, looking fully fit and scoring a goal in Brazil\u2019s 4-1 win at Stadium 974. Vin\u00edcius J\u00fanior, Richarlison and Lucas Paquet\u00e1 also scored, and after each goal the Brazilians broke out dance moves.
\nThey had promised different celebrations for each goal in Qatar, and were at last able to use many of them, after a group-stage in which Brazil scored only three times. It lost 1-0 to Cameroon in its last group game.
\nEven coach Tite got in on the act, joining Richarlison for his trademark \u201cpigeon\u201d celebration.
\nThe coach and the players got into a circle and put their hands on their hips and started moving their heads back and forth to imitate a pigeon, which is Richarlison\u2019s nickname.
\nAfter the match, Richarlison showed his dance to former Brazil star Ronaldo, teaching him the moves.
\nThe Brazil players had already danced after Vin\u00edcius J\u00fanior\u2019s first goal, when he, Neymar, Raphinha and Lucas Paquet\u00e1 did a few moves together. It was similar after each goal.
\nAll the dancing got some criticism from former Ireland player and commentator Roy Keane, who said the Brazilian players were \u201cdisrespecting the opposition,\u201d especially with the manager getting involved.
\nTite defended his players.
\n\u201cIt just means being happy because of the goal, the performance, the win…\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s not about being disrespectful with the opponent.\u201d
\nTite had joked with Richarlison before the match that if the player scored, he would dance with him to celebrate. (AP)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
DOHA, 6 Dec: The joy and the dancing \u2014 are back for five-time champion Brazil at the World Cup. The big win over South Korea on Monday secured Brazil a berth in the quarterfinals in Qatar. It also restored the team\u2019s confidence after a tumultuous start to the tournament in which the Sele\u00e7ao lost Neymar […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-206434","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206434\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}