{"id":849662,"date":"2026-08-10T00:14:27","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T00:14:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/849662\/"},"modified":"2026-08-10T00:14:27","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T00:14:27","slug":"football-news-2026-coritiba-defender-jacy-maranhao-falls-into-a-hole-while-celebrating-a-goal-campeonato-brasileiro-serie-a-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/849662\/","title":{"rendered":"Football news 2026 | Coritiba defender Jacy Maranhao falls into a hole while celebrating a goal; Campeonato Brasileiro S\u00e9rie A results"},"content":{"rendered":"

A goal celebration in Brazil\u2019s top football<\/a> competition took an unexpected and frightening turn after he disappeared down a hole on the side of the pitch and injured his ankle. <\/p>\n

Coritiba defender Jacy Maranhao\u2019s had just tapped the ball into the back of the net to put his team in front 2-0 against Chapecoense when he decided to jump over an advertising board to celebrate closer to the fans that had travelled to attend the game. <\/p>\n

\"The<\/p>\n

The moment Maranaho falls in to the tunnel hole\u00a0X<\/p>\n

But when the 29-year-old footballer got his legs over the advertising board, he fell into an uncovered tunnel hole that led to the away team\u2019s dressing rooms.<\/p>\n

The tunnel had been opened early, in readiness for the half-time break. <\/p>\n

Teammates stood on the other side of the advertising board worried about Maranhao, with a nearby stadium staffer running down to help him back up. <\/p>\n

Maranhao eventually did make his way back up the stairs and onto the field, although it was clear that he had injured his ankle during his celebration. <\/p>\n

To add salt to the wounds of his nightmare celebration, the defender\u2019s goal was rubbed out by VAR due to a foul in the build-up to his strike. <\/p>\n

Maranhao failed to return to the field for the second half. He was seen sitting on the bench icing his ankle while his teammates went on to claim a 2-1 victory. <\/p>\n

It is not the first time a player has been injured falling into a tunnel hole at Couto Pereira (Coritiba\u2019s home stadium). In 2014, Joel Tagueu, a former striker for Coritiba, fell and injured himself in the same tunnel hole as Maranaho. <\/p>\n

Tagueu did manage to play out the full 90 minutes plus additional time, though. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A goal celebration in Brazil\u2019s top football competition took an unexpected and frightening turn after he disappeared down…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":849663,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-849662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=849662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849662\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/849663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=849662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=849662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=849662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}