Barcelona welcome Philippe Coutinho in Swamiye Ayyappo style, Malayalis go gaga
One of Barcelona's social media posts welcoming the Liverpool star featured an unusual background music Swamiye Ayyappo, Ayyappo Swamiye.
Kochi: Taking the Internet by storm, Malayalis have done it in the past and they are back at it again.
From teaching Maria Sharapova who Sachin Tendulkar is, to making #PoMoneModi a global trend, Keralites seem to have a special inclination toward trolling. Spanish football giants FC Barcelona were the latest to feel the heat of Malayali-sponsored troll attack. Barcelona’s 142-million-euros signing of Braz-ilian forward Philippe Coutinho from Liverpool FC is the talk of the football world and the La Liga giants were celebrating their latest capture with a series of tweets and Facebook posts daily.
On Wednesday, one of Barcelona’s social media posts welcoming Coutinho featured an unusual background music – Swamiye Ayyappo, Ayyappo Swamiye. The vocal is unmistakably legible at the start of a 40-second video titled “New club, new pals for Philippe Coutinho!” and that was the cue for a Malayali-special virtual ambushing of Barcelona’s social media.
👥 New club, new pals for @Phil_Coutinho! ðŸ"µðŸ"´ pic.twitter.com/LtNyNwFzdl
— FC Barcelona (@FCBarcelona) January 9, 2018
Soon, a host of funny replies flooded the comments section and the video also went viral as WhatsApp forwards.
The sound engineer had done well , by copying a religious anthem in to the background 😂😂
— Billboard Devil (@BillboardDevil) January 11, 2018
Barca Twitter handler right now. pic.twitter.com/pE8SJ4b87j
— Jithin Varghese Alex (@CaptJack3parrow) January 11, 2018
If You Guys Dont Have A Chant Take it from somewhere elz man Dont Copy From Sabarimala Devotiees - Mammutinhieo pic.twitter.com/PiAf4ngySn
— Sarath Kannan (@sachinkottara) January 11, 2018
ROFL 😂😂😂
— SREE (@indimate) January 10, 2018
Introducing Swami Ayyappan.The chant that reveberates beyond stadiums & lands. pic.twitter.com/FqabJGxVDS
— HARIGOVINDAN (@Hari__Nair) January 10, 2018
— Favaz ahamed (@Favazh) January 10, 2018
Hahaha, this is going around everywhere. Some indian in handling FC Barcelona's twitter :) ayappan season aanalo ;)
— Rohan Sreekumar (@Rohan_Sreekumar) January 10, 2018
😂 you got much attention for this video from southern part of India, especially from Kerala!! Hope you guys got the reason why!! "SWAMIYE AYYAPPO" ðŸ˜
— Gopa Kumar M.G. 🇮🇳 (@mggopakumar) January 11, 2018
😂 you got much attention for this video from southern part of India, especially from Kerala!! Hope you guys got the reason why!! "SWAMIYE AYYAPPO" ðŸ˜
— Gopa Kumar M.G. 🇮🇳 (@mggopakumar) January 11, 2018
When #messi will score a goal, Chant frm the gallery become "swamiye ..ayyappo...ayyappo..swamiye.." 😂ðŸ™
— Jebin Mathew (@Im_JEBIN) January 10, 2018
“He is going to Sabarimala, since finally Lord Ayyappa heard his prayers and blessed him with a move away from Anfield (sic),” read a tweet.
One seemed to have deciphered the reason behind Barcelona ace Lionel Messi growing a beard. “It is now clear that Messi had grown the beard as a vow of his Sabarimala pilgrimage.”
Photo-comments featuring face of Ayyappa morphed into Coutinho’s body also poured into the comments column and a number of related trolls also popped up.
With the annual ‘Makara Vilaku’ festival at Sabarimala to be celebrated next week the unusual ‘bgm’ couldn’t have come more timely.