DHAKA: Commentators chided the German football team on Wednesday for gently mocking Argentina during a giant World Cup winners party in Berlin, an event that marked a rare exuberant celebration of national pride.

In a country where strident patriotism is still largely taboo, newspapers said the young players’ ‘tasteless’ victory dance on Tuesday reflected badly on the country.

Six of the players including Mario Goetze, the sole scorer during Sunday’s 1-0 win over Argentina, performed a taunt often seen in stadium stands, on a stage set up behind the capital's Brandenburg Gate before hundreds of thousands of flag-waving fans.

‘This is how the gauchos (Argentines) walk, the gauchos walk like this,’ they sang, hunched over, to cheers from the crowd, reports The Straits Times.

BDST: 1744 HRS, JUL 16, 2014