By Simone Poliandri
Gualberto Mojica, midfielder of the Bolivian Primera Division team Club Deportivo Oriente Petrolero, duets with teammate Roberto Galindo and finishes with an aerobatic half-bicycle kick.
Goal of the Week is a new series by Italian anthropologist footballer (or footballer anthropologist) Simone Poliandri.
By Simone Poliandri
Harrogate Railway Athletic vs Guiseley AFC Lions. West Riding County Cup game, Harrogate (England), Nov. 29, 2011: Guiseley’s Danny Forrest’s 92nd minute wonder winning strike from the kickoff after Harrogate had just tied the game 3-3. The Lions went on to win the game 4-3.
Goal of the Week is a new series by Italian anthropologist footballer (or footballer anthropologist) Simone Poliandri.
Juan Manuel Olivera scores the winner for Al Wasl against Al Ain in the UAE league. Al Wasl’s head coach, Diego Armando Maradona, must be pleased to see his lessons translated into magical “golatos.”
Manchester United – Manchester City 1-6. Mario Balotelli and David Silva lead Roberto Mancini’s men to a historic victory at Old Trafford. Does this outrageously humiliating scoreline signal a changing of the guard in English football?
Fluminense’s Fred makes a diagonal run into the box, traps the high vertical cross with his chest, and executes a bicycle kick that sends the ball past the stunned Coritiba keeper and into the back of the net. Pure magic!
The Daily Telegraph web site posted video evidence of Jack Warner, former CONCACAF president and FIFA vice-president, explaining Mohammad Bin Hammam’s cash-for-votes scheme at a Caribbean Football Union meeting in March 2011. “If you are pious then go and build a church,” he tells the audience.
Short version of the video here, long version here
South African players embarrass themselves and the nation by dancing in celebration after a 0-0 home draw with Sierra Leone on October 9, 2011 in Nelspruit. Niger had qualified instead! (For details see yesterday’s post here.)