Qatar 2022 World Cup: controversy online for a video in which Casemiro applies a substance to Neymar’s nose

A sequence of just five seconds captured from the official broadcast of the match between Brazil and South Korea generated great controversy on social media. The protagonists were Casemiro and Neymar, two of the greatest references of the Brazilian team that beat South Korea 4-1 and sealed the ticket for the quarter-finals of the Qatar 2022 World Cup without problems.

Shortly before the start of the match, Neymar, who usually greets his teammates before the kick-off, approached Casemiro and the central midfielder put a substance on his nose.

It didn’t take long for that sequence to be cut and posted by several users on social networks that they speculated on what the Manchester United player had put on them in the nostrils of one of the stars of the French PSG.

Memes and controversy surrounding that image flooded the networks and comments the criticisms of the Brazilian players were repeated.

In Brazil, UOL media reported yes an ointment that football players usually use to breathe better.

Strictly speaking, players who use it usually wear that cream on the shirt or cotton and rub it on their nose.

If another scene was missing from the controversy, in the second half and before a free kick, Casemiro, standing next to Neymar, stared at his nose and took something from him.

Neymar and many other players have been using this ointment for a long time. In 2018, during the World Cup in Russia and in the midst of a controversy, a Brazilian athletic trainer was consulted in this way and specified: “By breathing better you aid the recovery process. The better you can oxygenate the body, the faster you can recover,” said Ze Mario Campeiz.

In that interview he explained it the ointment is usually used when there is high humidity or, conversely, the climate is very dry, because “the athlete wears out more and takes longer to recover”.

The scene that went viral It happened moments before the start of the match in which Brazil, with a penalty from Neymar, beat South Korea 4-1 and reached the quarterfinals.

It was Neymar’s return to Tite’s side following an ankle injury he suffered in his debut which prevented him from appearing in the second and third group stage matches.

Brazil, which confirmed its status as a candidate to win the World Cup, will face Croatia in the quarter-finals, who suffered and needed penalties to leave Japan away.