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Hamburg’s Paolo Guerrero is the perpetrator here. This reminds me of the kind of fouls you used to do on the ‘keepers on Fifa when you stood next to them and accidentally pressed ‘O’. Not sure he even knew where the ball was.
Ouch.
Anyone who’s played football has been there – the miss from two yards out, the horrendous own goal, the time when you thought you heard the referee’s whistle and let the opposition striker run past you and score the winning goal. Moments when you wish the ground would open up and swallow you. For me, these were all in the same game, which explains why I was only picked once for my school football team.
It’s this shared experience that allows you to empathise when this kind of thing -
http://www.101greatgoals.com/gvideos/the-worst-miss-ever-deivid-flamengo-v-vasco/
– happens to professionals.
A shocker, but it happens to the best of us, you might think. When you find out that this isn’t Deivid’s first, or even second ridiculous miss however, you start to wonder if he really can be counted as ‘the best of us.’ Check out these 5 other incredible failures to find the net, all for the same club – Flamengo of Brazil… My favourite is the backwards diving header. Genius.
http://www.101greatgoals.com/gvideos/top-5-deivid-misses-video-made-august-2011/
Being a fan of a small team can be a lonely affair at times. Friends, work colleagues and the media sometimes seem to only care about the big clubs – no one wants to hear about your away trips to Doncaster Rovers, or the exciting young prospect you’ve just picked up from Margate. So it’s nice to turn up on a Saturday afternoon and know you’re not alone, that there are other people out there who share your passion.
However, when poor Tiago Rech turned up to Santa Cruz’s away game against big boys Gremio in the Brazilian cup, he really was alone. He made the 4,000 mile round trip, on his own, to watch his team get beaten 4-1. That’s some seriously applaudable dedication. Here’s what he had to say…
“When I got in I realised it was just me and four police. But it was worth it. When we scored I didn’t care I was alone. I screamed and went for it. That’s when I saw the journalists looking at me. On the radio later they talked of ‘the dance of the lone fan of Santa Cruz’. It was a great day.”
Here’s footage of the man himself. I wonder if that’s a certain 2005 single by Akon he’s listening to?
I have no idea what’s going on here, but it made me laugh…
Apologies for my shocking tardiness with getting this video on the blog – I’m sure Paolo himself wouldn’t stand for it. After all, one of Mussolini’s most famous principles was punctuality – he always made the trains run on time and all that. Anyway, questionable political views aside, Di Canio is always good for a bit of entertainment, and this celebration after Swindon’s last minute winner at Northampton is no exception. Well worth the one match ban given by the humourless FA – the bloody fascists.
When he was a kid, Iker Casillas once forgot to send off his father’s football predictions for the weekend. Casillas Sr had correctly predicted all 14 fixtures, and the family missed out on the equivalent of one million Euros.
They’ve probably forgiven him now, seeing as he’s probably made that 30 times over in a career which, aged just 30, has seen him become one of the most successful footballers of all time, winning virtually every competition and accolade possible. This save, up there with the best I’ve ever seen, shows why.
The finish is top drawer, what makes this goal for me is the drop of the shoulder beforehand which leaves the defender on his backside.
Sean Miller, and 
Jim Staples are discussing.
Jim Staples 10:34 am on January 16, 2012 Permalink
I would have preferred the blog title to be “Paolo steams up the right wing”
Sean Miller 10:48 am on January 16, 2012 Permalink
That flash of inspiration I never had… It’s not as if I didn’t have enough thinking time!