Articles tagged with "own goal"
Lucio Does a Riise, Ribery Nearly Does a Ronaldo
By Daryl | April 24th, 2008[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67zVlMI0Z4U[/youtube] Seems own goal fever is taking Europe by storm (a bit like the measles in that respect.) Just 48 hours after John Arne Riise's "what's he doing? why doesn't he just use his right foot?" ...
Photo of the Day: Uh-oh
By Laurie | April 22nd, 2008See the guy on the ground? That's Liverpool's John Arne Riise. The look on his face? This is the look you get when, in the ninety-fifth minute, your team has a 1-0 lead at home, and then you go to head the ball away in the waning seco ...
Stefano Morrone Scores a Long Range Headed Own Goal
By Daryl | April 17th, 2008[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GX8rzMNDtkE[/youtube] A little sympathy for Parma's Stefano Morrone please. His team were already 2-0 down with less than 15 minutes to go, but Morrone somehow headed Tiago's through ball past his own keeper ...
And You Thought Djimi Traore's Own Goal Was Bad...
By Daryl | March 31st, 2008[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8l6BHKF4tL0[/youtube] This magnificent own goal is from last Thursday's Hungarian Cup second leg tie between Debrecen and Fehervar. Fehervar had won the first leg 2-1, but champions Debrecen were winning the ...
Don't Pass Back to This Goalkeeper, Ever
By Daryl | March 27th, 2008[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UyBIZP1wSoE[/youtube] Defenders on Mexican team Puebla FC learned a valuable lesson over the weekend: Don't pass back to keeper José Guadalupe Martínez, ever. Joaquín Velázquez tried it in the 4th min ...
Colorado Fail to Score Again, Beat Houston
By Clint | August 12th, 2007In what should come as no surprise, the Rapids won their first game in 10 tries by not scoring any goals. A De Rosario own goal (wasn't he supposed to be the next star of MLS a year ago? what's up with that?) was the only time the ball touched the back of
São Paulo Reaches the Top
By Bruno Romani | August 6th, 2007It took a few weeks, but the Brasileirão has a new leader. São Paulo visited Grêmio in Porto Alegre, revisiting the clash of this year’s Copa Libertadores, trying to reach the first spot. This time the tricolor paulista imposed a defeat to Grêmio an
A Bicycle-Kick Own Goal is Possible
By Bruno Romani | August 3rd, 2007When you think you’ve seen enough oddities in the football world, Brazilian football shows up to remind up that everything is possible. Even a bicycle-kick turned into an own goal. The goal below happened in the final of a U-20 tournament between Flamen
Goalfests in Scotland
By Ian Rose | April 28th, 2007Well, the overall standings are pretty much cemented - Celtic has won the SPL, Rangers need only one more point to solidify their hold on second, etc. But that didn't stop the league from having one of its highest-scoring days of the year today. There w
Video: Yes, the same Barthez who was one penalty away from winning the World Cup.
By Sam | April 2nd, 2007Honestly. Go ahead and defend him best you can, Laurie :)
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