Posts Tagged ‘Great Goals’

And Jozy Altidore Shall Lead Them

Thursday, April 2nd, 2009

Yes, I’m well aware CONCACAF soccer doesn’t necessarily match up with Europe and South America’s real football World Cup qualifying leagues, but as long as the United States continues to be the dominant team in their qualifying play group, they will continue to play in the World Cup. Winning it — or even surviving [...]

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Welcome to the Goal Scorers Club, Freddy

Thursday, November 20th, 2008

Sorry for all the videos today, but I just had to share this.
The soccer wunderkind known as Freddy Adu netted his first goal for the US Men’s National Team last night in route to a 2-0 win over Guatemala off of a nifty little set play. Adu has played sporadically for the [...]

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Sneak Attack Goal Scoring

Wednesday, June 25th, 2008

I saw the inspiration for this post over at Digg and it’s freaking awesome. Lion in Oil gets on the goal-scoring fun as well. What we have is one of the sneakiest goals ever scored. No description, just watch:

The goal scorer must be given a great deal of props for his ninja-like [...]

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Playing Goalie Is Hard…

Tuesday, May 13th, 2008

…In any sport so why make it harder on yourself by dribbling the ball when you have suspect ball-handling skills? I mean, what the worst that can happen, right? Besides getting a goal scored on you, one that wouldn’t have happened if the ball was correctly cleared out.

Now I know goalies can’t pick [...]

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