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OK, this isn't a truly *great* goal, but it is an exceptional own goal.

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And it was the goalkeeper's debut match, too.
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This one gave me wood, obv.

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Great goal, but the entry pass to Nagbe was pretty damn impressive, too.
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wow
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the goal is nice..so is the pull back
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Soon to be Stoke player Juan Agudelo's goal for New England tonight (which may not have actually gone in) was a really nice touch.
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Here's Agudelo's goal that wlu_lax referenced:

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Having not opened this thread previously, I honestly thought it was about goals we have for ourselves.

So to make it awkward: skydive in all 50 states.
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Landon Donovan.

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NE Revs..nice movement on that strike
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Crazy weekend for goals in MLS...

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Don't blink.

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Sabo wrote:Don't blink.


I love the hail mary formation on the kickoff.
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I've never seen a kickoff play like that. I didn't even notice that it was a set play the first time I watched. I might have to teach that one to my kids!
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Shirley wrote:I've never seen a kickoff play like that. I didn't even notice that it was a set play the first time I watched. I might have to teach that one to my kids!
When I was a kid playing 14-and-under and 16-and-under, pretty much every team used that exact same set play on every kickoff. Every kickoff. We just assumed it was how soccer was played. Straight back from the center dot and then a one timer boooooot downfield. When we got older and went to college, nobody did that. Nobody. So we just assumed that "our" play was just some amateurish business and surely colleges and whatnot were playing more advanced systems. Or playing actual systems for that matter. Nice to see that again; I'd forgotten all about it.
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Yeah, I guess I've seen the pass back and boot (but it's been a while).

That one had the extra bit of sending a clump of 4-5 guys streaking down the left-center to run onto the long ball. They had the extra detail of one guy to receive and stop the ball before a different guy booted it. I assume that was a timing thing - one extra half second or so to get the runners deeper. Pretty cool.

The closest I've ever done on teams I was on was having one wing streak down and try to hit him in stride on the second pass (one short pass between the two guys in the circle, and one long pass to the streaking wing). That oftentimes worked better than it should to get that wing with a quick one-on-one with the last defender.
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Actually, now that I think about it, the play we ran was to skip the short pass and just hit one down ahead of the winger. You'd still have two guys standing right by each other, like a regular short first touch. But if the defense left a gap on the wing, the first guy would instead knock it down the wing, catching them off guard. Simple, but effective to get one guy alone with a defender one second into a game.
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Shirley...that long ball is interesting but you have a better shot with this one.
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Brian McCann would take issue with that.
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wlu_lax6 wrote:Shirley...that long ball is interesting but you have a better shot with this one.
In my son's U11 game (fourth of the season) last weekend, we had a free kick about 10 yards outside the box (it's 8v8, so it's not a full-sized goal box). So we had the center mid - a quiet kid who is new to the team and who hadn't really stood out as anything other than pretty good to that point - take the kick. We told the rest of the kids to get in front of the goal, hoping he'd send a ball in and someone would get a foot on it. Well, this kid calmly stepped up and RIPPED a shot directly into the upper left corner. Nobody saw that coming. The goalie never moved. Few kids in the league could even kick a ball that hard, much less on target.

He finished with a hat trick and an assist for the game, largely because after two goals, he stopped trying to score and tried to set up his teammates. Needless to say, we have a new best player.
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Is his name Romeo and he's a quiet kid with English parents?
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Two solid goals from the MLS this weekend
Kléberson's free kick for Philly and the overhead volley by Vancouver's Camilo Sanvezzo. Kléberson had a cup of coffee with Man U and Bestikas and played for Flemengo.
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wlu_lax6 wrote:Two solid goals from the MLS this weekend
Kléberson's free kick for Philly and the overhead volley by Vancouver's Camilo Sanvezzo. Kléberson had a cup of coffee with Man U and Bestikas and played for Flemengo.
That Camilo goal was spectacular.

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wlu_lax6 wrote:Wow
Meh. Lucky goal, as it took a deflection off the defenders foot.
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Jack Wilshire scored the goal of the year today. This is just such a thing of beauty and the type of play that drew me to Arsenal. Just sublime.


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The Sybian wrote:Jack Wilshire scored the goal of the year today. This is just such a thing of beauty and the type of play that drew me to Arsenal. Just sublime.


even if they tried to re-enact that play with no defenders, they would fail every time. every fucking time.

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All of Arsenal's goals yesterday were sublime. They're playing a gorgeous brand of football.
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govmentchedda wrote:All of Arsenal's goals yesterday were sublime. They're playing a gorgeous brand of football.

More importantly, they are WINING! In the past, they played gorgeous football, but nobody would shoot. They would string passes together in the box until they eventually lost the ball. Now, almost everyone is willing to pull the trigger.
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So Great it did not actually go between the sticks

the Germans are supplying goal line tech for the World Cup but are not using it themselves. I thought the point for the nets was to stop this type of thing from happening.
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govmentchedda wrote:All of Arsenal's goals yesterday were sublime. They're playing a gorgeous brand of football.

As a Spurs fan, it pains me to agree, but that Wilshere goal was one of the best goals I have seen in a while.
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Zlatan's third goal last night vs. FC Anderlecht was pretty outstanding. Iain Macintosh called it a "thunderbastard" on Twitter, and wrote in this article that "Zlatan hit it as if he'd just caught it sleeping with his wife."

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Stoke keeper scores from his own box against Southampton.

I can't get an embed to work, but here's a crappy GIF:

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And his one problem is he didn’t go to Russia that night because he had extracurricular activities, and they froze to death.
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And 12 seconds into the game, no less.
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Steve of phpBB wrote:Stoke keeper scores from his own box against Southampton.

I can't get an embed to work, but here's a crappy GIF:

http://www.101greatgoals.com/blog/pure- ... uthampton/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
and i had the stoke keeper on my team up until this week.

guess who i dropped him for: the southampton keeper.
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Sean Franklin's goal for the Galaxy last night was a beauty.
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