Miguel Herrera’s Goal Reaction

About

Miguel Herrera’s Goal Reaction refers to the animated celebrations acted out by manager of the Mexico national football team Miguel Ernesto Herrera Aguirre during the group A World Cup soccer match between Croatia and Mexico in June 2014.

Origin

On June 23rd, 2014, a boisterous Herrera was filmed celebrating several times during his team's game against Croatia, particularly during a late goal scored during the knockout round (shown below).

Precursor

On May 27th, 2013, Redditor chluaid submitted an edited GIF of Herrera turning into a Super Saiyan from Dragon Ball Z while celebrating a goal made during a match between America and Cruz Azul in 2013 to the /r/gifs^[3] subreddit, where it gathered more than 1,100 points and 50 comments prior to being archived.

On May 30th, chluaid uploaded a time lapse video to YouTube showing how the GIF was created (shown below).

Spread

On June 24th, 2014, Redditors arg6531 an michael_j_scofield submitted an animated GIF of Herrera celebrating after the first goal during Mexico's game against Croatia at the World Cup to the /r/gifs^[1] and /r/soccer^[2] subreddits, where they gained over 3,500 and 1,900 points in the first 24 hours respectively.

Also on June 24th, 2014, The Huffington Post^[4] highlighted several GIFs of Herrera celebrating during the game (shown below). Meanwhile, The Mirror,^[5] The Guardian^[6] and Bleacher Report^[7] posted compilations of photos and animated GIFs of Herrera celebrating soccer goals.

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