Soccer announcers the world over cry out an elongated form of ‘gooooooooooooal!’ when a team scores. But that cry originated in Brazil in the 1940s. Reporter Fernanda Santos dug into the origins of the cry.
When did a simple goal become a ‘Goooooooooooooal’?
Brazil has a new law allowing the sale of beer in stadiums during the 2014 soccer World Cup. This had actually threatened to become a major stumbling block.
