Roy Keane's jab at Brazil football fans for booing players

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Roy Keane's jab at Brazil football fans for booing players

Brazilian football fans have exorted Roy Keane after the former Manchester United star derided the country's national team players dance moves during their World Cup final 16 victory over South Korea.

Brazil s players repeatedly shook their stuff during Tuesday's 4 -- 1 win against the coach Tite, even joining in after Richarlison scored the third goal, cavorting like a pigeon in reference to the Tottenham striker's nickname.

Keane took exception to the continuous dancing after Brazil's goals. I don't mind the first kind of little jig whatever they do, but they are still doing it after that, and then the manager gets involved with it, the Irish commentator grumbled on ITV. I am not happy with it, I don't think it is very good at all. In Brazil, those comments went down like a 7 -- 1 defeat by Germany and transformed Keane into an immediate hate figure for dance-loving football fanatics. Brazilian football is the embodiment of happiness. Roy Keane be damned, wrote the sports columnist Julio Gomes, one of many citizens who took exception to the former Ireland midfielder's remarks.

Gomes said in an article on the website UOL Esporte that Keane's attack was merely the latest example of arrogant and clueless Europeans getting their knickers in a twist over the delight of others. Gomes said that they think they are the best at everything and they have the right to judge anyone. They think they are the masters of what is right and what is wrong, and that the entire world must follow their behavioural manual.

Brazilian footballers like to dance when they score. Others offered blunter critiques, and wondered how the man behind the vicious tackle on Alf Inge Haaland in 2001 thought he was in position to lecture others on disrespect. The screenwriter Antonio Tabet told his 3.1 million Twitter followers that Roy Keane should get fucked, before he said that Ireland s Roy Keane complaining about goal celebrations at a World Cup is like Ronaldinho disapproving of bobsledding at the Winter Olympics. There was criticism from the world of football. He doesn't understand the Brazilian team.

The dance isn't disrespectful to anyone, but it shows real unity between the players and the coach. The world of football shouldn't worry about this because we have become accustomed to Roy Keane's inelegant and sometimes very arrogant statements. One of the Brazil players, Lucas Paquet, denied that his team's dancing was designed to offend opponents. We're celebrating because it's our moment. He said that Brazil is celebrating and we scored a goal. If Keane doesn't like it, there is not a lot I can do for him. If we score another goal, we'll carry on celebrating like this.

Tite told reporters that their players were always going to face disapproval from ill-disposed critics but defended their right to boogie. The coach said it was a show of joy.