Can you beat the Dele Alli Challenge on the first try?

The Dele Alli Challenge has become the viral gesture of the summer. If celebrities have already accustomed us to fun gestures and dances that everyone wants to imitate, the English footballer seeks with his celebration to show the world a reality experienced in the country of origin of his parents, Nigeria.

In the first day of the Premier League, Tottenham, the team where Dele Alli plays as a midfielder, faced Newcastle. The match was tied at one, and Dele Alli scored the second goal that would give his team the victory. The score was 1-2 in favor of Tottenham, but the news was not that, but the celebration of the one who scored the second goal.

Celebrations by top-level footballers often become fashionable among football fans. Surely you remember Cristiano Ronaldo’s iconic pose or the celebrations of some players kissing their wedding rings. In this case, the gesture made by Dele Alli became viral immediately because of its enigma.

Several hashtags were created where different people and footballers like Neymar or Fernando Llorente perform the same gesture under the hashtag #DeleAlliChallenge, where you can find all kinds of posts on various social networks. Due to the impact of the gesture carried out by the midfielder, some people decided to make tutorials to help others achieve this challenge.

The gesture itself consists of placing the index finger and thumb forming a circle and turning the hand so that the other three fingers are extended on the forehead, forming a kind of monocle.

Here we leave you a video we found online featuring important footballers like Neymar:

As you will see, some are not able to do it correctly and the result is hilarious. For them, the following tutorial:

Dele Alli Challenge, the even harder one

It doesn’t seem so hard, does it? Well, given the impact it has had, Dele Alli has made his gesture even more complicated. Now the footballer’s new challenge consists of making glasses that frame both eyes using only one hand. Now the challenge is tougher, but imitators are not lacking. Do you dare with the even harder one?

This tutorial explains in a very simple way how you can perform both gestures.

Now you have the keys to do it, you can practice and then challenge your friends to share some moments of laughter watching how some twist themselves until they manage it without success.

The meaning of Dele Alli’s gesture

Like all gestures, this peculiar way of placing the fingers simulating a monocle or glasses is a form of social protest. The footballer’s parents are of Nigerian origin, a country currently ruled by a military regime where all kinds of atrocities are committed against men, women, and children, so the population lives in a true state of terror.

The most common torture among these groups is gouging out the eyes of their prisoners, as explained on Twitter by Nigerian footballer Félix Orode. When a person is detained by these soldiers and is released again, they make this gesture to indicate that they have survived and still have their eyes.

Thanks to his gesture, many people around the world now know its meaning and the problem existing in the country where his parents were born, Nigeria.