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Inside Wales’ wild World Cup celebrations as dressing room party heads to Gareth Bale’s bar for Shakira sing-along
WALES’ World Cup heroes celebrated ending 64 years of hurt at Gareth Bale’s Elevens bar in Cardiff.
The Dragons made history by booking a first finals spot since 1958 after the 1-0 triumph over war-torn Ukraine.
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Bale’s free-kick was headed into his own net by Andriy Yarmolenko as Wales sealed a place in Qatar.
They will now face arch rivals England, Iran and USA in Group B.
The Wales playing squad, family members and Robert Page’s backroom staff took over Bale’s bar which is situated opposite Cardiff Castle in the Welsh capital.
Videos emerged of the World Cup party from the likes of Aaron Ramsey, Connor Roberts and Mark Harris.
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Wales have adopted Shakira’s ‘Waka Waka’ song as a celebration tune and have changed the last line of the chorus from "This time for Africa" to "We’re going to Qatar".
Cardiff man Mark Harris posted footage to his account singing along to the song while dancing on top of a table.
The party was in full flow and Juventus midfielder Ramsey even posted an video of close pal and Dragons cult hero Chris Gunter outside the bar celebrating with fans.
Jonny Williams also posted a video to from inside a raucous dressing room at the Cardiff City Stadium as Wales stars Bale and Ramsey led a tribute to boss Page to kick-start the party.
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The interim chief, who has been standing in for Ryan Giggs since his arrest in November 2020, was treated to a remix of ‘Freed from Desire’, a 1997 dance hit which is commonplace on football terraces.
The whole squad sang, “Pagey’s on fire, your defence is terrified!” as the likes of Bale, Kieffer Moore and Brennan Johnson all banged on a table.
Williams captioned the video, "Unbelievable" with Ramsey and Danny Ward spraying beer.
Now Wales’ class of 2022 will aim to copy the boys from 1958, who reached the quarter-finals in Sweden before Brazil's Pele broke their hearts.
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