After scoring the go-ahead goal in the 77th minute of today’s Copa del Rey quarterfinal edition of El Clasico, Barcelona teammates Eric Abidal and Dani Alves engaged in each other in a ceremonial Brazilian man-dance battle known as ’Ai Se Eu Te Pego.’ As opposed to capoeira, the traditional Brazilian art of dance fighting, ‘Ai Se Eu Te Pego’ is more celebratory in nature and has no clear winner, other than the everyone who witnesses it of course.

That’s probably the truth, hard to tell with Wikipedia on strike today. But it is certain that the dance originates from a  catchy song of the same name released in 2011 by artist Michel Teló. After a Neymar viral locker room video displayed how to perfectly execute the moves, Ronaldo added his personal touch with Marcelo after scoring a goal for Madrid (which got him a ‘surreal’ face-to-face with Teló himself, total dreamboat manwich, right?).

Um, What?!

Michel Teló: I’m so happy to live in a world where this not only exists, but is embraced. And by embrace, I don’t mean what I’d do to this man if I met him, although I would. Rather, the sum; is greater than the parts, which in Michel Teló’s case seem to be:

Parts:

1 part Ryan Seacrest
2 parts Joel McHale
3 parts singing like Justin Bieber
1 part wardrobe recycled from Saved By The Bell: The New Class
7 parts facial expressions of Dwight Schrute (watch the video below, tell me I’m wrong)

Sum:

Several hundred gorgeous women fawning over what appears to be a quite normal human specimen.

Again, Wikipedia is down, I’m just making this up as I go. So who does the best ‘Ai Se Eu Te Pego’? Abidal/Alves? Neymar? Ronaldo/Marcelo? or the Swansea players!?

Thanks to @dockx_1 for the connection.