{"id":564353,"date":"2026-08-10T04:22:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T04:22:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/564353\/"},"modified":"2026-08-10T04:22:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T04:22:12","slug":"footballer-falls-down-tunnel-while-celebrating-disallowed-goal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/564353\/","title":{"rendered":"Footballer falls down tunnel while celebrating disallowed goal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Brazilian footballer plummeted down a tunnel while celebrating a goal \u2014 and, to add insult to an ankle injury, the goal was disallowed.<\/p>\n<p>Coritiba player Jacy Maranh\u00e3o thought he had scored to put his side up 2-0 against Chapecoense in southern Brazil on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The 29-year-old jumped over the advertising hoardings, only to fall into a tunnel to the away dressing rooms which had been uncovered ahead of half-time.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/the-29-year-old-jumped-over-the-advertising-hoardings-only-t-G47SE7HLPFF23KHN22PBU3WZCU.jpg\" alt=\"The 29-year-old jumped over the advertising hoardings, only to fall into a tunnel to the away dressing rooms which had been uncovered ahead of half-time.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"ImageMetadata__MetadataParagraph-sc-hi5x8q-0 cWTYyG image-metadata\">The 29-year-old jumped over the advertising hoardings, only to fall into a tunnel to the away dressing rooms which had been uncovered ahead of half-time. (Source: Breakfast)<\/p>\n<p>Jacy was able to play on for the rest of the half but came off early in the second when it was clear that the fall had taken its toll.<\/p>\n<p>The match took place in Paran\u00e1 state as part of Brazil&#8217;s domestic league competition.<\/p>\n<p>It was not the first time a player has fallen down the tunnel at the Couto Pereira stadium.<\/p>\n<p>Back in 2014, Coritiba striker Joel fell down the open tunnel as he celebrated one of his two goals in a match against Sao Paulo.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-greyDarkFaded\">The morning&#8217;s headlines in 90 seconds, including St John braces for another hectic day, and a Brazilian footballers goal celebration goes bad. (Source: 1News)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Brazilian footballer plummeted down a tunnel while celebrating a goal \u2014 and, to add insult to an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":564354,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[28708,111,139,69,213],"class_list":["post-564353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-central-south-america","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=564353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564353\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/564354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=564353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=564353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=564353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}