Bitch and moan about football in the Olympics all you like but last night's victory for Brazil was something special if nothing else because of how much it meant to those players and a boisterous and nervous crowd inside the Maracana. Match winner Neymar celebrated with a new tattoo.
The only major footballing competition that Brazil were yet to win was the Olympics, and yes many countries do consider it a major footballing competition because it's only recently become under 23s, but last night inside the national football stadium Brazil put to bed some of the demons from the World Cup two years ago.
It took a penalty shoot out, in which Neymar scored the winning spot kick, in order for the Seleção to grab the gold medal. And after being the hero he was denied being in the World Cup the Barcelona forward got a new tattoo to celebrate and showed it off on his snapchat:
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It's fair to say he was pretty happy last night:
Topics: olympics, Football, Neymar, Tattoo