Jakarta, CNNI Indonesia —
Brazilian national team bury the dream of winning a trophy world Cup sixth in Qatar. Neymar and his friends failed in the quarter-finals after losing to Croatia on penalties on Friday (9/12) WIB evening.
Brazil’s bankruptcy caused an uproar in the virtual world audience, highlighting ‘karma’ for the Brazilian national team’s behavior towards a cat at a pre-match press conference.
An official is known to have thrown a cat which at that moment climbed onto the table at the press conference. The Brazilian Football Federation (CBF) account was inundated with comments after the cat throwing action.
At its peak, cat lovers associated the incident with last night’s defeat of Brazil. Troll Football account, muttering that Brazil’s defeat is the curse of the cat.
“This cat has cursed Brazil,” she wrote.
Another account calls Brazil’s defeat a karma.
Popular accounts in Brazil also discuss the issue of the cat incident with Brazil’s defeat.
“Some people are saying Brazil were knocked out of the World Cup by Croatia after Brazilian media officials threw an alley cat at a FIFA press conference. ‘Curse the cat’?” wrote the Brazilian Report account.
As is known, Brazil were eliminated on penalties after a goalless draw that lasted up to 90 minutes of play.
In the penalty shootout, Brazil failed to beat Croatia. Two Brazilian footballers, Rodrygo and Marquinhos, failed to get into the ball. The defeat with the final score of 4-2 made the Brazilian players cry.
Neymar was not without sadness. After trying to be strong, the Brazilian star could no longer hide the great disappointment of not leading Brazil to their sixth World Cup win.
(ain/sry)
