Kudos to you Dark Savante, as I`d thought of posting a thread like this before. I voted for team goals, with 2 or more teammates involved in the build-up and some kind of spectacular finish. I think the more people involved in a goal, the more difficult and rarer it becomes, due to the fact that you have to reply on many people to make it happen. Like the buildup to Holland's penalty goal vs. W.Germany where I think 6 players touched the ball without a W.German even getting a touch on the Dutch player or the even the ball. Individual run goals, happen at least once a week somewhere in the world in football. Long distance strikes the same. When I posted before that Manuel Negrete's goal in WC86 was the greatest goal I'd ever seen is because I know I've never seen anything remotely like it before or since. I don`t know how they pulled that off because even if they tried to duplicate it, or practice it again they'd be lucky just to get a shot on goal.
BTW how was Ronaldinho's goal again Chelsea an innovation? It was just a toe poke. If you like that sort of stuff there are innovators in every playground in Britain.
Name the last player to do that in such a manner. Especially in such a big game against that calibre of opposition. It was innovative because he came up with it from no where and it is not commonplace to score like that.
Go and watch the lower leagues, people are always scoring with toe pokes. It doesn't happen in the big games because it is normally a rubbish thing to do. I'll give him credit for improvisation but not innovation.
Haha, you're kinding! If you think you see a standstill, curling mid-height, 'toe-poke' in any lower league game you're nuts! You make it sound like a simple, straight lined shot. He bent the ball with his toes! lol you figure it out. Lower leagues indeed. Buhahahah
It did bend and landed miles away from Cech as he couldn't follow the flight of the ball from such a ridiculous shot technique. Anyways. Morning to ya. Nice to start the day with an arguement
I love a good argument in the morning, wakens you up a bit. Just because it landed away from Cech means nothing, I could boot a ball completely straight, it would still go away from someone. The whole goal came from poor play by John Terry, he should have let the ball go through to Cech in the first place. Anyway, not much chance of me getting a go in the draft today, or tomorrow for that matter. Still, England game later so that's OK.
Can't believe you missed off headers. Diving headers. Headers flicked into the far corner. Powerful bullet headers that give the keeper no chance - best example I've seen was at the most unglamorous of settings. Aldershot v Reading autoglass trophy group stage. With aldershot already having lost 10-1 in their other group match, we only needed a draw. I just remember a deep curling cross and there was martin hicks, Reading's record holder for appearances, rising up majestically to meet it, just a bit further out than the penalty spot. He heading it with such power and precision that it flew as hard as if had been kicked, unstoppably, into the top corner. The keeper didn't even move. The crowd, what there was of it, erupted and cheered. It was magnificent, a thing of beauty. And had he not put it past his own keeper, it would have been perfect.
Not sure I'd blame the defence for something as freakish and innovative as that tbh. He also came to a dead stop which made that scenario even more improbable.. The defence did the right thing in holding their line. It wasn't as if they were miles off him he just did them with a moment of brilliance. Yep and yep. No chance at all of us getting a pick till Monday or even Tuesday I would wager.
lol! Well the Karl Heinze Riedle kind of headers are all but non-existant now. Didn't even cross my mind to include headers. I haven't seen a great one for a long, long time now.
The whole situation came from Terry heading a ball out that would have run through to Cech. If he had left it, Ronaldinho never would have got the ball to score.
Well, to quote Thoreau: Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand... I don't think the "beautiful game" is about skill-it's about the moment. Transcedence. Sometimes it comes through audacity; sometimes virtuosity. And other times, simplicity-as in a penalty kick These are the goals I love.
i chose team passing because that's what the game is all about, teamwork which leads to a good win BUT i also like them long distance rockets... ex: clarence seedorf for real madrid a while back i believe in a CL..nothing is better than brusing up a goalie har har
I like odd goals that you don't see every game. Freekicks are great too. The best feeling for me is watching Totti dribbling past defenders, and then hitting a nice long range shot to when a match.
I always liked bicycle kick because when I was a kid, they used to show Pele doing it. It is getting rarer and rarer....