A moment of real inspiration is hard to come by. The factors that go into making your mind light up and burn with the energy of a new idea or realization are so enigmatic that people spend their entire lives searching for them; the driving thought being that eternal success has at its heart the ability to be constantly inspired. This chase is as present in soccer as it is in any other vocation.
We did not know that under the current laws of physics this goal was even possible. But it is. We've seen the video. And now you have too (or you will once you're done with the article).
This happened in the German third division, which is not a place where we normally go to find potential goals of the year. And yet here it is, in all its glory. A front-flipping scorpion kick. Zlatan Ibrahimovic hasn't even done this (yet).
Carli Lloyd's pitch was high and wide, but that is a trifling complaint. At least she did better than poor Gio dos Santos. Lloyd threw out the first pitch for the Seattle Mariners while she and her Houston Dash teammates were in town for a game against the Seattle Reign (which the Reign won, 2-1).
Generally, in journalism, when you find a story the proper thing to do is to dig deeper and acquire as much information as possible about causes, effects, etc. before releasing it to the public. We are going to break journalistic tradition here, though, because we do not even want to know what horrible thing happened to Javier Martos that necessitated him receiving this treatment during a game.
Giovani dos Santos is not good at throwing baseballs. This is demonstrated by his attempt at throwing out the first pitch at a recent Los Angeles Dodgers game.
.@OficialGio. He's really good at soccer. pic.twitter.com/ZHe5ogdxA4
— Los Angeles Dodgers (@Dodgers) August 11, 2015
Zlatan Ibrahimovic would like for you to buy his perfume. Zlatan Ibrahimovic made a commercial in order to persuade you to buy his perfume.
But, like everything Zlatan does, this is not your average commercial. It's not quite as insane as this commercial, but it does feature a #ZlatanFish.
I wonder what was going through the mind of ADO goal keeper Martin Hansen before his teammate swung in a free kick in the 95th minute of ADO vs PSV. Was he thinking of glory? Maybe he was just hoping dearly that the ball wouldn’t fly anywhere close to him — actually scratch that. There is absolutely no way Hansen does what you are about to witness if he is thinking, “Oh God, please just not me.”
Martin Hansen just scored the front runner for the goal of the year, and he did it in stoppage time to tie the game, as a goal keeper…with a flying back heel.
This might just be the pinnacle of human cinema. Cristiano Ronaldo was dropped into Grand Theft Auto 5 and proceeded to do GTA 5 stuff.
If you don't know what qualifies as "GTA 5 stuff," look no further than the part of the video in which Ronaldo hits the guy off the motorcycle with a soccer ball and the guy gets run over.
Rightly or wrongly, the English are stereotyped for their politeness. In the case of Doncaster Rovers vs. Bury, however, that stereotype came to life magically.
In soccer, when a player gets injured it's considered good manners to kick the ball out of bounds so the player can get looked at by the training staff. The other team then throws the ball in and kicks it to the goalie of the team that kicked the ball out of bounds originally, and play resumes again.
Philippe Coutinho seems to defy the laws of physics whenever he scores. That might not make sense if he was another player, but he’s not; he’s Philippe Coutinho: the man who cannot score an average goal.
Honestly, last year he made a habit of scoring from the other side of nowhere, and this year he’s just doing more of the glorious same.