The elongated “goooooool” call has since been adopted in Spain, Germany (where “goal” is replaced by “tor,” or rather, “Tooooooor!”) and all over Latin America, as well as among Spanish-language broadcasters in the United States. In 2008, as an experiment, Luis Roberto, a sportscaster for Globo, cried “gol” only for the local team, Botafogo, when it played in the quarterfinals of the Libertadores Cup against Club Estudiantes de La Plata of Argentina.

“It was a disaster,” said Roberto, who has been narrating soccer games on television and radio since 1977. “Even people who rooted for Botafogo were screaming at me, accusing me of being disrespectful because I only acknowledged the goals scored by one team.”

Soccer broadcasting has evolved over time; sideline reporters give narrators in the booth fast information about elemental aspects of the game, like who scored or who is stepping in to replace the player who was hurt. Regional differences in pace and style have also taken hold. In São Paulo, narrators sound more like horse racing announcers, employing a pattern known as metralhadora, or machine gun. In Rio, the rhythm is decidedly less frantic. Still, the “gol” cry has persisted, though Brazilian announcers have adorned it, hoping that theirs is the one that stands out.

Araújo’s is preceded by “entrou” — Portuguese for “it’s in” — and a pause, which, he conceded, is really an opportunity to fill his lungs with air. Edson Mauro (formerly Edson Pereira de Melo), a renowned radio announcer for Rádio Globo, says “bingo” before he cries out “gol,” a word he chose after spending a night hearing it at a bingo hall in Madrid on a day off from covering the 1982 World Cup in Spain.

Image Edson Mauro, a renowned radio announcer for Rádio Globo, says “bingo” before he cries out “goal." Credit... Marizilda Cruppe for The New York Times

At Escola de Rádio, a broadcasting school here, Mauro — who used half of a coconut shell to amplify his first narrations, of his friends’ beach soccer games in Alagoas, his home state — prods his students to call the same game over and over again and to record themselves doing it. The reason, he explained, is that the students can track their improvement or “understand once and for all that the job is not for them and give up.”