I would imagine that it is extremely rare for a goal keeper in a soccer match to score a goal for their team but that is what happened in this game.
Argentine goalkeeper Leandro Requena scored one of the most outrageous goals you are ever likely to see during his Cobresal side’s 3-1 win over Colo-Colo in Chile’s top soccer league.
With his team already leading 2-0 in the 77th minute, Requena took what initially looked like a fairly innocuous goal kick.
However, with Colo-Colo goalkeeper Brayan Cortés well outside of his penalty area, the ball bounced over his head and towards goal.
To add to his embarrassment, Cortés stumbled as he tried in vain to chase the ball as it crossed the line.
According to TNT Sports Chile, the goal was scored from a distance of 101 meters which, if ratified by Guinness World Records, would break the record for the longest range goal in history.
⚽⚪🟠 El primer gol arco a arco del #CampeonatoBetsson
Así fue la anotación de Leandro Requena desde su propia puerta y que dejó a Brayan Cortés quieto, provocando el error del portero albo en el #CSLvsCCxTNTSports. pic.twitter.com/HDL2K22QnS
— TNT Sports Chile (@TNTSportsCL) March 18, 2023
I do not know if they keep records for the longest shout of “g-o-o-a-l” by a TV announcer but this one could be a contender. It clocked in at about 12 seconds. Do announcers train for this?
Not sure about “extremely rare”. Not a common occurrence, certainly. Goalies often come up for free kicks or corner kicks late in a game if their team is one goal down. They can also take penalty kicks and free kicks.
Brazilian goalie Rogério Ceni scored 131 goals during his professional career.
Oh, and this “g-o-o-a-l” was well over 12 seconds (saying it was 68 seconds is a stretch);
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EoP2Sk3MRuQ
I was a bit surprised that the commenter was Romanian.
Rob: I’m sure at least some fans would try to scram that one word all the way out to midnight…
It might be even rarer in hockey (the goal is a lot smaller and the goalkeeper takes up a lot more of it) but I’ve still seen goalies score a goal there. In one case without the goalie in question even leaving the crease.
(It was an ‘open goal’ situation, where the other team had taken its goalie off the ice so they could put a fourth forward onto the ice instead. They were down by a goal with only a few minutes left, so might as well increase the odds to score a tying goal and go into overtime at the risk of getting another goal scored against them when they were likely to lose anyway. Every member of both teams was on the same half of the rink, and when the goalie flicked the puck away at speed it just sailed across the centre-line and coasted right into the opposite goal with nobody in a position to stop it.)
Goals are rare things in soccer, but that’s how the game is scored.
So, understandable that commentators get all excitemed when such an unusual thing happens.
So, four times in the entire match. Better than none at all, which also happens.
John @5: I guess you love basketball, and hate chess?
jenorafeuer @4: I don’t know if it’s ever happened in the NHL, but I wouldn’t be surprised if a goalkeeper had scored with the opposing goalie still in their crease. A lofted puck can bounce in highly unpredictable ways…
Rob:
What? No.
It’s pretty clear that there’s an inverse relation between the frequency of scoring and the degree of excitement upon scoring.
(Nothing to do with what I do or do not like!)
PS data for a probability density function:
https://footystats.org/stats/common-score
It’s pretty clear that that’s bollocks. Football crowds naturally celebrate goals at varying levels of enthusiasm, but I’ve seen American crowds go absolutely apeshit at basketball games when their team has scored their 50th basket of the match. Then again, I’ve seen/heard American comedy club audiences go absolutely apeshit when a comedian has walked on stage and said the name of the town they’re all in. Some cultures are just ludicrously, embarrassingly over-demonstrative compared to others.
Imagine if there were only 1-3 baskets in the game! 🙂
Sure are. Soccer culture, the topic at hand.
It’s rare but not that rare. In Dutch Eredivisie 2015 Martin Hansen was the 12th keeper to score a goal. The Dutcher record is held by Nico van Zoghel, who scored 7 times. Eric Cummins did it five times; one went about the same as Requena’s:
John: Hope you don’t mind some personal questions, for no other reason than my nosiness:
Did you have a distaste for soccer as a kid in Spain? Nothing particularly unusual if you did -- lots of Brits, Germans, etc don’t care for it either. What were the closest La Liga clubs to your home in Spain?
I quite liked soccer and was a member of Real Madrid, being a Madrileño, but mainly so I could use the swimming pool.
I don’t have a distaste for soccer right now, either.
I just find it boring, since nothing much happens.
I reckon it would be a far better game to watch if they got rid of the offside rule.
(But I didn’t like flamenco at all, and I didn’t like bullfighting either)
Ah reminds me of Chilavert (Paraguay’s goalkeeper) who used to take the free kicks /penalties for his country and came so close to scoring one in a world cup