Un tiro libre sublime en un partido especial.
Lionel Messi llegó a 800 goles en su carrera como futbolista profesional, luego de marcar en la victoria 2-0 de Argentina sobre Panamá, en un partido que le sirvió a La Albiceleste para celebrar junto a sus aficionados el título conseguido en la Copa Mundial de Catar, en noviembre pasado.
Being an experienced player doesn't mean you are immune to making a rookie-looking mistake. And proof of this sentence is Paolo Goltz, a 37-year-old center back, who recently gave away what people are calling "the dumbest penalty ever" in a game between Independiente and Colón in the Argentinian first division.
The embarrassing moment for Goltz came in the 74th minute when the scoreboard was 1-1 and Colón was getting ready for a routine goal kick.
If you’ve played enough of the FIFA video game series with friends, then you’re probably familiar with randomizing the teams before a game. Sometimes you’ll get a strange matchup where one player gets a national team and the other gets a club.
That would never happen in real life, right?
Friday will see a situation just like that as the Argentina national team announced it will play a friendly against Primera División leaders River Plate. The game is part of a national celebration for Argentina’s triumph in Qatar.
It's been a while since I last saw an injury on a soccer field that sent shivers right down my spine. However, the unfortunate elbow dislocation suffered by Peruvian player Irven Ávila ended the stretch.
If you don't want to see what happened to him, it's time to close this tab and keep living your life far from pain. Please, don't say I didn't warn you.
Just four minutes after scoring the first goal in Sporting Cristal's 2-1 win over Atlético Grau, life was not very kind for the 32-year-old veteran Ávila.
Argentina worships Leo Messi. It always has been the case, but after the World Cup title, the adoration only multiplied. The love, the obsession, it's so unleashed that when people found out he was eating at a steakhouse in Buenos Aires on Monday night, hundreds gathered around the restaurant to chant his name and police had to come to keep everybody safe.
Cobresal goalkeeper Leandro Requena is over the moon not only because he scored a rare coast-to-coast goal against Chilean giants Colo Colo in a 3-1 win last Saturday, but also because his feat might have broken the record for the longest goal ever scored in professional soccer.
The funny thing is he wasn't even trying.
Stoppage time in soccer is getting out of control. At the World Cup in Qatar, we saw how the customary three to five added minutes went right to the 10+ zone, while FIFA — through the International Football Association Board (IFAB) — recently suggested leagues worldwide follow suit as a way to "increase the net playing time and reduce time-wasting."
Parecía imposible. Por el nivel de juego y los salvajes rumores de peleas internas. Sin embargo, Atlas lo logró. Los rojinegros dieron vuelta un trágico 4-1 ante el Olimpia de Honduras en un 4-0 en el Jalisco que se unió a las remontadas históricas en la Liga de Campeones de la Concacaf.
Los Zorros fueron un vendaval y con un doblete del estratosférico Julián Quiñones, una conquista a los tumbos de Ozziel Herrera y un gol mágico, iluminado del capitán Aldo Rocha.
Los equipos mexicanos no son ajenos a grandes remontadas internacionales y si el Atlas quiere seguir soñando con el título de la Concacaf 2022-23, tendrá que unirse a la lista.
Every day there's a goal that illuminates our lives. And on Sunday, that light came from Brazil thanks to Léo Reis, who got himself out of a tough spot by scoring a nasty, wonderful bicycle kick while lying on the ground.
1-0 down against Céara in the first leg of the Cearense Championship semifinals, Reis was trying to find an equalizer for his club Iguatu when reaching for an aerial cross, but he ended up on the grass with his back to goal.