By now I’m sure most of you have seen this Giovani Dos Santos goal from yesterday’s Mexico-Brazil friendly in Texas.
It’s pretty ridiculous. A little too ridiculous in fact. We at the Footy Blog have commissioned a wide array of experts and melodramatic Austrian physicists to get their take on whether GDS really was going for the net.
Ludwig Edelshtick, former CERN employee:
This goal -if we can call it that- is a travesty of the highest degree. Evidently Brazil’s goalkeeper hasn’t the first idea of playing angles. Dos Santos, aiming for a streaking Javier Hernandez, mishits the ball and ends up scoring a fluke of a goal. The whole thing makes me sick.
Karlos San Miguel, Mexico City dance studio owner:
This goal shows us that with rhythm and passion, anything is possible. Dos Santos idolized one Ronaldinho growing up. This wonder goal is right out of the Brazilian’s playbook.
Giovani Dos Santos, accused of flukery in the first degree:
You asked me several times, so I tried it, I saw that ‘Chicharo’ was alone there in the center, so I tried it out and thankfully the goal.
Thanks to Google translate for mangling the quote from GDS, but we get the sense that the Mexican’s coy response was planned well in advance. Unfortunately, we may never know the truth. I tend to believe a cross became a goal by way of a lucky break.
What about you?
Yeah, I’d have to call that a fluke goal. Don’t get me wrong, I’ve seen guys do ballzy stuff and pick out the back post on a tight angle like that, but it gooks like Gio was just blindly looking for the back post, slightly mishit it, and ended up with a great goal .
Sorry that should say “looking for a runner at the back post” and not “looking for the back post”
in my opinion that’s a brilliant finish
Of course the Mexican dance studio owner would say that..lol
Looks legit to me. I’ve seen him place some great shots. He wouldn’t have chipped it to Hernandez the way he did if he was making a pass. His foot wouldn’t have come under the ball as much for a pass. Nice goal.
Most likely was a mishit, takes a little away from the goal. But Gio shouldn’t be crucified for getting lucky. The physicists guy “makes me sick”, it’s sports you never now whats going to happen, not a predictable field of Science.
Well said, football creates a lot of magical moment, and that was magical
Yeh, sometimes, people just don’t ‘get it’ Devang, but fwiw, I think the last couple of replays convinced me it was a chip, not a mishit cross.
The more I watch it the more I can see where you’re coming from.
Does it matter what he meant? Its a fantastic goal to wax poetics on with linguistic flourishes. Who cares ‘how it happened’ in the mind of dos Santos, which would be as much as a fantasy science at this moment as would be any other effort to explain the goal.
Enjoy the beauty of the game, unless you are a Brazilian die-hard supporter, in which case decry away.
Well said, Matt.
Watch the final of the Gold Cup against the USA. Even though the chip was at a completely different angle, the shot was using the same precision. I think this article is “a little too ridiculous”
Here is the goal Rhys is referring to: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tk2ordnyrII
A beautiful one for sure, but completely different circumstances in terms of position.
I think Rhys means placement, not position. Both were chips to the far corner with the left foot anyways…
Imo it is a goal. You don’t make a chip pass to Chicharito in this position
he hit on purpose imo. like it’s been mentionned, he wouldnt have crossed it that way for Chicharito
Guys…u serious? For real? Yeah that was a nice goal but come on.
My buddy scored a waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay better gol than that…against barca too.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-yAUTtRWBg
Oh, and yeah he meant it. For those of us that know players that emmulate these kinds of abilities we tend to know what their thought processes are.
He was definitely thinking along the lines of….”I’ll def. chip it far post, but I’ll try and get it in the way for Chicharito so he can have a chance to head it in. If he can’t get it…well…it’s going far post anyways and goalie will be stuck lol!”
Clint Dempsey scored a screamer, very similar to GDS, againsts Juventus in the Europa league in semi-final of last years competition. Because of the hatred towards mexicans, and everything that has to do with immigration racists posts such as this appear.
Check yourself. This has zero to do with racism.
What an idiot you are, the author gives a quote against the goal’s legitimacy, for it, and then outlines GDS’ reaction. How on earth could you construe this post as racist?
While I think it was pass, it was still a great goal.
No matter how it comes a goal is a goal, the lead up play was brilliant so he got lucky off a cross but still a goal.