Atvidabers’ season went terribly. They played in the Swedish top flight in 2015. Which is to say that they happened to share the pitch with teams that repeatedly beat them. They finished in last place with only 15 points, 2 wins, and a goal differential of -30. They had a bad time. So you have to imagine how amazing it must have felt for them to not just score a goal, but score the Swedish goal of the year.
That was Atvidabergs’ Finnish midfielder Simon Skrabb, and as much as I am having a hard time believing that he had any idea what he was doing when he scored that goal, I shouldn’t hate. It really is an amazing goal — one that deserves to be the Swedish goal of the year — and he, Simon Skrabb, not anyone else, pulled it off.
Skrabb, far left, taking a photo at the gala where he won Swedish Goal of the Year. Photo: @FFJaro | Twitter
No doubt the amount of “f*** it” in his system was at an all-time high during the game, as it was Atvidabers’ last of the season and their relegation was already guaranteed, but that almost makes it even better. There are few better ways to go out than with a bang.
Here’s hoping that Skrabb will score one or two more of these next year in the Swedish second division.
Believe it or not, more than one of these outrageous scorpion kick goals have been scored throughout human history. Things have "progressed" so much with the technique that it seems like people are actively trying to make it harder. That's the only way we can explain how a front-flip scorpion kick was pulled off in the German third division. Check it out here.
People are amazing.
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