The Australian netballer behind the viral dance performance at the Fast5 tournament has revealed the inspiration for the routine.
The Kelpies put on a show before their opening game against South Africa in Christchurch on Saturday.
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In a choreographed dance, the Kelpies players showed off their dancing abilities to the song Bye Bye Bye by NSYNC.
A video of the routine posted by 7Sport has gone viral, racking up over 2.5 million views across all platforms.
The Aussies knocked off South Africa in their first match 42-27 on Saturday before falling to New Zealand 32-28 later in the day.
However, they turned the tables on the Kiwis in the final, winning 32-30 on Sunday night thanks to Jordon Webb’s four-point power-play goal in the final seconds.
But despite winning the tournament, the dance routine was all everyone wanted to talk about.
The architect of the viral performance was revealed to be goalshooter Dravyn Lee-Tauroa, who said he was inspired by the new Deadpool movie.
“That was on me. So, we started with the cha-cha slide and I didn’t want any part of that,” Lee-Tauroa told Sunrise.
“I saw this dance come up on TikTok from the new ‘Deadpool’ movie.
“I was inspired by that and the boys got around it.
“We always wanted to be in a boy band. Who hasn’t? And we got to perform.”
Teammate Liam Forcadilla joked that learning the dance took up nearly as much time as training.
“Yeah, it was pretty hard to squeeze in learning the dance in between our training matches, but we kind of got there in the end,” he said.
“We loved it and the crowd loved it, too. It was so loud in there.”
Lee-Tauroa added he would love to see pre-match dance routines in other sports too.
“I think world netball do an exceptional job of marketing the Fast5 world series,” he said.
“They label it sport-tainment, bringing that entertainment factor to the sport. All the athletes get around it and I think it shows just how much fun netball can be. We have gone viral nearly every year we have been here for all the fun dances we do.
“It would be great to see more things like that rolled out across all different types of sport.”