In the 23rd minute of the second half, Cameroon replaced Kunde with Ntcham. Almost immediately, Casimiro Miguel amended “now hold Ntcham”. Then he had a little chorus, apparently with the former player Denilson, “hold Ntcham, tie Ntcham…”
Content creator and influencer, Casimiro, 29, from Rio de Janeiro, is the “new fact” in the transmissions of the World Cup games, by showing all the games in Brazil, and some other handpicked ones, on his CazéTV.
During the games, as in the duel against Cameroon this Friday (2), Casimiro does not play the role of a comedian or narrator, but of a supporter, a professional, but a supporter. With him and his team, the transmissions are between the “Globo standard” of quality and fifth grade jokes, for better or for worse.
In the third match of the group stage, the narration was commanded by Luis Felipe Freitas, with many Champions League games on TNT Sports in his resume. Juninho Pernambucano, who was at Globo in the 2014 World Cup, commented on the match, in his same style.
Close to game time, another former player arrived, Denilson, called the “Denilson show”, which gave the transmission a more relaxed, almost bartending air. Other ex-globals followed directly from Qatar, reporters André Hernan and Alê Oliveira. In all, there are 3 and a half hours of transmission, with a little time before and after.
With the former players doing the analyses, Casimiro, or Cazé, as he is also called, felt free to just cheer, wearing his BRL 800 national team jacket. , supports Vasco, but praises the Flamengo player Pedro, and bows to the former Vasco player Juninho.
Their reactions most of the time could be those of anyone following the game with friends, at the Fan Fest or at the corner bar. “Wait a minute, teacher, you have to give a yellow”, “did he say it was on the ball? You’re kidding, it was on the ball on the ankle”, “this referee is kidding, what did he score?”
In some moments, as the narrator Everaldo Marques, from SporTV, likes to point out, the fifth grade moment speaks louder. When the masseur from Cameroon crouched down to attend to an athlete who had fallen on the lawn, he commented “and the camera is being cruel to the masseur? Look there”.
At the same time, many internet users who followed the game posted comments like “hey, piggy bank is paying” and many “kkkkkk”. There was also no shortage of phrases with gastronomic jokes involving Shrimps.
At the time of the more serious post-match crowd-analysis, Casimiro skipped a few grades in the commentary, at least not something parents like to hear from elementary school kids. “If Switzerland scores a goal, we’re in federal shit. You can’t stay… can I talk? with your ass in the syringe. Brazil got its ass in the syringe.”
Later, in his round table, he said again, “Brazil got its ass in the saw”. “Wasn’t it in the syringe?”, pondered another commentator.
Despite the relaxed atmosphere, CazéTV is serious. The only Brazilian alternative to Grupo Globo broadcasts, the channel already has close to 4 million subscribers. Casimiro wanted to beat the mark during the broadcast, which started with around 3.62 million, but he couldn’t. The daring goal stipulated by the youtuber himself is 10 million subscribers by the end of the World Cup.
In its debut, against Serbia, it broke the record for a live Brazilian online broadcast, with 3.65 million. Against Switzerland, it reached a world record, with between 4.8 and 4.9 million.
The number was not beaten in the confrontation against Cameroon. The game started with about 2 million devices connected, after 15 minutes it was already at 3.6 million and by the end of the first half it reached 4.1 million. In the interval, that amount dropped quickly, to close to 3 million, and then rose again.
Incidentally, the break —like the pre and post game— is full of sponsors. While they arrange references of some of them in front of internet users, the narrator remembered. “First half ended with zero for Brazil, zero for Cameroon”. But Casimiro soon cut in, “no shrimp, no”, counting the delicacies sent by a sponsor, “there must be about 30 here”.
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