{"id":36106,"date":"2026-08-10T08:13:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T03:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=36106"},"modified":"2026-08-10T08:13:00","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T03:13:00","slug":"brazilian-soccer-player-leaves-game-after-leaping-over-barricade-into-tunnel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=36106","title":{"rendered":"Brazilian soccer player leaves game after leaping over barricade into tunnel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script>\r\n  atOptions = {\r\n    'key' : '644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6',\r\n    'format' : 'iframe',\r\n    'height' : 90,\r\n    'width' : 728,\r\n    'params' : {}\r\n  };\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script src=\"https:\/\/www.highperformanceformat.com\/644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content%2Fuploads%2Fsites%2F2%2F2026%2F08%2Fnewspress-collage-b0ej008ya-1786329969580.jpg?quality%3D90%26strip%3Dall%261786315637\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>They sometimes say \u201cleap and the net will appear,\u201d but if you\u2019re Brazilian footballer Jacy, sometimes a hole will appear.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s what happened to the Coritiba center back over the weekend after he scored a goal, which was eventually called back, and eventually forced him to exit the match with an injury on Sunday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The bizarre moment occured late in the first half of Coritiba\u2019s match with Chapecoense, both of whom play in Brazil\u2019s top flight.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Brazilian soccer player Jacy Maranh\u00e3o leaves a game after leaping over a barricade into a tunnel to celebrate a goal that did not count. <span class=\"credit\">X \/  @MetaThor4<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The 29-year-old was celebrating what he thought was his club\u2019s second goal of the match when he grabbed the ball and put it under his shirt, then jumped over the advertising dasher boards that lined the field, presumably to go celebrate with the fans.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>What Jacy didn\u2019t seem to know was that where he jumped over, there had been a large square-shaped opening that led to the locker rooms under the stadium, which had been uncovered.\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module aligncenter wp-block-nypost-editor-primary-tag\">\n<\/aside>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Brazilian soccer player Jacy Maranh\u00e3o leaves a game after leaping over a barricade into a tunnel celebrating a goal that did not count. (X \/  @MetaThor4) <span class=\"credit\">X \/  @MetaThor4<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-x wp-block-embed-x\"\/>\n<p>The Coritiba star leaped over and right down the tunnel, disappearing momentarily to the horror of the club\u2019s fans before reappearing.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He initially fell to the ground but popped right up and continued his celebration.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Jacy reportedly finished the first half before having to exit the match in the second half, apparently succumbing to an injury from the fall.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Brazilian soccer player Jacy Maranh\u00e3o leaves the game after leaping over a barricade into a tunnel to celebrate a goal that did not count. <span class=\"credit\">X \/  @MetaThor4<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>To make matters even worse, the goal was eventually called off after video assistant referee intervention led to an offside ruling.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Oddly, that wasn\u2019t the first time something like that happened at Est\u00e1dio Major Ant\u00f4nio Couto Pereira, which is located in the southern Brazilian city of Curitiba.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Jacy Maranh\u00e3o of Coritiba looks on during a Brasileirao 2026 match between Athletico Paranaense and Coritiba at Arena da Baixada on Sunday, March 22, 2026, in Curitiba, Brazil.  <span class=\"credit\">Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In 2014, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/Dbz6slyuOLb\/?utm_source=ig_embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">former Cameroon native Joel pulled the same move<\/a>, jumping over the advertisement boards and into the tunnel, which was covered at the time by a tarp.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In that instance, a stadium staff member appeared to try and warn him before jumping to no avail.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><script async=\"async\" data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/pl30214220.effectivecpmnetwork.com\/9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<div id=\"container-9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\"><\/div>\r\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They sometimes say \u201cleap and the net will appear,\u201d but if you\u2019re Brazilian footballer Jacy, sometimes a hole will appear.\u00a0 That\u2019s what happened to the Coritiba center back over the weekend after he scored a goal, which was eventually called back, and eventually forced him to exit the match with an injury on Sunday.\u00a0 The&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36107,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/08\/newspress-collage-b0ej008ya-1786329969580.jpg?quality=75&strip=all&1786315637&w=1200","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-hub"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36106\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/36107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}