Rio De Janeiro: Brazil won the entire Olympics &mdash; or so it felt for fans dancing in the streets after Neymar fired the winning penalty for football gold. Drivers of cars and trucks hooted and crowds in countless bars across the city screamed in delight on Saturday night.
<img title="A Brazilian fan during the football final in Rio on Saturday. pic/AFP" src="http://images.mid-day.com/images/2016/aug/Brazilian-fan.jpg" alt="A Brazilian fan during the football final in Rio on Saturday. pic/AFP" /> A Brazilian fan during the football final in Rio on Saturday. Pic/AFP
"The champions are back, the champions are back!" Brazilian fans chanted .
Nothing could compare for Brazilians to winning their first Olympic football medal and defeating Germany after a 7-1 World Cup humiliation.
"Brazil could have won (gold) medals in everything but if it hadn&rsquo;t been in football then nothing would have counted," said Leila Lopes da Silva, 70.
"Volleyball, judo, that&rsquo;s all fine," she said. "But football was what we needed."

Brazil won the entire Olympics &mdash; or so it felt for fans dancing in the streets after Neymar fired the winning penalty for football gold. Drivers of cars and trucks hooted and crowds in countless bars across the city screamed in delight on Saturday night

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Brazil won the entire Olympics &mdash; or so it felt for fans dancing in the streets after Neymar fired the winning penalty for football gold. Drivers of cars and trucks hooted and crowds in countless bars across the city screamed in delight on Saturday night

Rio 2016: Only football medal counts for Brazilians

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