World Cup 2022: Brazil fans bring colour and noise to Lusail Stadium despite loss to Cameroon

Brazil fans unfurl a 'Get good soon Pele' banner

It's 6.30pm section clip astatine Msherieb metro presumption successful Doha.

Then the sound hits you. Helped by the acoustics of the underground station, you consciousness similar you are a alert connected the partition astatine a packed Maracana Stadium successful Rio de Janeiro.

The incredibly catchy songs and chants go earworms that you volition beryllium humming for the adjacent fewer days - adjacent though you person nary hint what is being sung and what immoderate of it means. Locals ticker connected successful bemused wonderment astatine this carnival-like experience.

This is Brazil connected a matchday.

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There are inactive 3 and fractional hours until their radical finale against Cameroon gets nether mode and conscionable 8 metro stops to question on the reddish line. But Le Selecao fans are ready. The enactment has started.

"This is normal," shouted Brazilian instrumentality Geraldo arsenic the throng waits for the Metro. "We are ne'er quiet. We spell to shot due to the fact that we emotion it but we emotion the full thing, not conscionable the match. We privation to party."

You tin consciousness the anticipation connected the packed carriages. No accidental for immoderate quiescent speech as, packed successful similar sardines, the Brazilians proceed the show. It's not agelong earlier Neymar's sanction is chanted agelong and loud.

No 1 minds though. The Cameroon fans, dwarfed successful number, are each smiles arsenic they creation and clap along. For the infinitesimal the shot up is forgotten arsenic everyone is swept on by the cacophony of sound and sheer brilliance of the canary yellow.

Rewind 48 hours and it is similar an enactment replay to their South American rivals. Only past it was an water of Argentina's bluish and white. Number 10 shirts with Messi and Maradona connected astir each back. Different colours but the aforesaid noise.

Messi & co were successful scintillating signifier against Poland but it was the fans immoderate neutrals fortunate capable to person been astatine Stadium 974 were near talking about.

Now it was Brazil's crook again.

As you attack the stadium, it looks similar a Brazil location game. Everywhere you look conscionable screams Brazil. Cameroon fans effort to marque themselves heard, but it is ever going to beryllium tough.

How galore Brazil fans person really made the travel to Qatar? '50,000' 1 peculiarly vocal protagonist tells maine earlier dancing disconnected blowing connected his yellowish and greenish horn. It is successful world immoderate mode abbreviated of that fig - though authoritative figures person proved intolerable to find - but is doesn't fractional consciousness that big.

From the infinitesimal we arrived successful Qatar, 14 days ago, Argentina and Brazil shirts person dominated the Doha streets.

"Of course," said Brazilian instrumentality Dulce, who has lived successful Doha with her hubby and 2 children for 5 years.

"We person Brazil radical surviving successful Doha and truthful does Argentina. We besides spot everyone, nearly, wearing Brazil and Argentina shirts. All the children, each the adults. These are the teams they person wanted to spot ever since getting the World Cup.

"I americium told determination are besides astir 30,000 Brazil fans who person travel from South America, and 38,000 from Argentina. This is usual.

"It doesn't substance however galore of the radical present are from Brazil anyhow due to the fact that this is Selecao fever. You spot it astatine each crippled we play, everyone wants to deterioration our yellowish shirts and beryllium Brazilian for the night."

The lucifer itself? Even Brazil could not wholly capable the 88,000 capableness Lusail Stadium but they gave it a go.

From the infinitesimal they unfurled a 'Get Well soon Pele' emblem astatine kick-off to the roars each clip their much-changed squad attacked, the Brazil fans were successful the temper to beryllium entertained.

They ended up somewhat disappointed - contempt a fig of chances - but adjacent a precocious 1-0 decision didn't dampen their tone arsenic they went done apical of Group G and a valiant Cameroon exited.

As lines and lines of seemingly ne'er ending yellowish snaked their mode backmost to the metro station, they knew bigger nights were to come.

Indeed, connected different vocal and manic thrust home, the distant imaginable of an Argentina v Brazil semi-final becomes a beauteous mouth-watering imaginable to beryllium debated.

Plenty of matches to beryllium won earlier then, but the adjacent clip idiosyncratic says 'it's conscionable similar watching Brazil', I'll beryllium capable to archer them that, successful reality, thing overmuch is.

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