ブラジルのダンスに賛否、監督も参加でゴール喜ぶ カタールＷ杯

【ドーハＡＦＰ＝時事】サッカーＷ杯カタール大会の決勝トーナメント１回戦で、ブラジルの選手がダンスを踊って得点を派手に喜び、さらに監督もその輪に加わったことに対して、賛否両論の声が上がっている。（写真は先制点を喜ぶブラジル代表メンバー）
　サッカーＷ杯カタール大会の決勝トーナメント１回戦で、ブラジルの選手がダンスを踊って得点を派手に喜び、さらに監督もその輪に加わったことに対して、賛否両論の声が上がっている。
　これについて、かつてイングランド・プレミアリーグのマンチェスター・ユナイテッドで主将を務め、現在は辛口で有名な解説者のロイ・キーン氏は、「あんなに踊りまくるのは見たことがない。『ストリクトリー（・カム・ダンシング）』を見ているみたいだ」とセレブによるダンスコンテストで人気の番組を引き合いに出して批判。「今目にしているものが信じられない。本当にね」と話した。「好きじゃない。相手へのリスペクトがあまり感じられないと思う」
　リシャルリソンがチームの３点目を決めた後には、チッチ監督も加わってベンチ前で得点を喜んだ。リシャルリソンは、以前からダンスの練習をしていたとコメントしている。
　６１歳のチッチ監督はパフォーマンスについて擁護し、「意地悪な人間は常にいて、そういう人はあれを失礼な行為と理解するだろう」と話し、「選手には、私を少し隠してくれと言った。見えていたことは知っている」と明かした。
　「ゴールや結果、内容に対する喜び以外の解釈はされたくないし、相手や（韓国を率いる）パウロ・ベントをばかにしたかったわけではない。彼には大いに敬意を払っている」
　１９９４年のＷ杯米国大会に米国代表として出場したアレクシー・ララス氏は、さまざまな喜び方があっていいと話した。
　一方、リバプールやスコットランド代表時代に激しいタックルでならし、現在は生真面目な解説者として有名なグレアム・スーネス氏は否定派で、「ブラジルの選手とぶつかる選手が現れるのは時間の問題だ」と語っている。【翻訳編集ＡＦＰＢＢＮｅｗｓ】
〔ＡＦＰ＝時事〕（2022/12/08-12:54）

Brazil's players have divided opinion after they celebrated their goals in the 4-1 World Cup mauling of South Korea with some extravagant dance moves, with even their coach getting in on the act.
The pre-tournament favourites put on a fearsome display of attacking football on Monday to send South Korea home and set up a quarter-final in Qatar with 2018 runners-up Croatia.
Tite's side took the lead in just the seventh minute through Vinicius Junior and Neymar scored from the penalty spot on his return from an ankle injury as the Koreans were outclassed.
But it was the manner of the exuberant celebrations during the game that caught the eye of many, with the Brazilians rolling out a set of choreographed dance moves.
Look, I've never seen so much dancing, it's like watching Strictly, said former Manchester United captain Roy Keane, referring to a popular TV show in Britain, in which celebrities compete in a dance contest.
I just can't believe what I'm watching, I really can't, added the famously scathing television pundit.
I don't like this, I think it's really disrespecting the opposition.
Even Tite did a jig with his players in front of his dugout after Richarlison scored a classy third for Brazil in the 29th minute.
The Tottenham forward said they had been practising their dance moves.
This cheerful and happy atmosphere is important, the professor?s joy infects us on the field, he said of the coach.
The 61-year-old Tite also defended the celebrations.
There are always spiteful people who will understand it as disrespect, he said. I told the players to hide me a little, I know about the visibility.
I didn't want it to have any other interpretation than the joy of the goal, the result, the performance, but not disrespect for the opponent or (South Korea coach) Paulo Bento, for whom I have a lot of respect.
Alexi Lalas, the former United States stalwart who played at the 1994 World Cup, said he was all for the colourful celebrations.
He told Fox Sports: If you are somebody out there that frowns and is grouchy and grumpy about soccer players dancing after they have scored a goal, or about Brazilian players dancing after they score a goal, and have some misguided concept of what sportsmanship is... then I feel sorry for you.
I feel sorry for the life you live that has no joy.
If you want to dance, if you want to sing, if you want run around like a crazy person, you do whatever it is you want to do to celebrate the greatest moment in our beautiful game.
But Graeme Souness, another famously no-nonsense pundit from Britain, was having none of it.
It's only a matter of time before someone goes right through one of these Brazilians, said the notoriously tough-tackling former Liverpool and Scotland midfielder.