When you have a sport played just about everywhere, you’re going to get quite a few goals scored per day. The law of averages also dictates that every now and then, one of those goals will be amazing.
This is the amazing goal from June 20th, scored by Swedish U-21 striker Linus Hallenius, whose name would also make an excellent band name:
It’s the kind of goal that has scouts salivating: as the title denotes, his “van Basten” chip flummoxes the nearest defender before his rocket shot from a narrow angle, one that kisses the top corner in improbable fashion.
Word has it that Hallenius is being scouted aggressively by some decent European teams in England, France, and Italy, no doubt inspired in part by that goal.
Such is scouting in the modern era; we can’t afford to go to the games necessarily, and note-taking can be time-consuming, so maybe we should just browse the web for a while and digest all the fawning, choppily-edited highlight reels uploaded by super fans across the world. Not exactly the best transfer policy, but then again, not every player can look good on YouTube. Scouting players, I’d imagine, is a lot like jazz; it’s about the notes they don’t play. Not everyone scans well on a grainy, poorly-shot video: just ask Gene Simmons about his sex tape sometime. Oof.
My advice, Linus: keep scoring these kinds of goals until YouTube breaks. If a big move is meant to be, it’s meant to be.
Meh. Did that in my over-30 co-ed match last week. Oh, you meant the goal? I was talking about the s**tty defending.
Thats a beaut. But this is better:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7yuKZlTtjQ&feature=related
and this one too
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-FebBxbGXY&feature=related
Both of those are DQ’d because Norwich is involved. You can’t score awesome goals wearing an ugly color combination.
/ducks and runs
Going to ignore Ned’s video links as they’re surely some kind of CanaryRoll
@TSE: Yes, because green and yellow are two colors utterly foreign to United.
@Ryan: Uhhhhh, you know I think those colors are gross at Old Trafford too, right? I thought I’d made that pretty clear.
@TSE: Oh don’t worry, you have. Let me paint with my broad bush dammit!
“When you have a sport played just about everywhere, you’re going to get quite a few goals scored per day.” …. Oh that’s bulls**t nobody scores in soccer. Now if you’ll excuse me I need to go put on a camouflage hat and vigorously masturbate to a 9-3 Ravens/Browns game.
For shame, Georger. At 9-3 masturbation shouldn’t even be necessary.
@Georger: That’s one of my favorite things to jack off to! Well, that and Sophie’s Choice.
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The last goal in the Motherwell 6 – 6 Hibs game was also phenomenal.
Dane Richards firing top shelf past Stu Taylor from yesterday was pretty nice, as was Matias’s diving header in the day’s first match.
All that this clip is missing is a Dutch announcer screaming:
“Linusch Halleniusch! Linusch Halleniusch! Linusch Halleniusch! Linusch Halleniusch!…..”
@TSE They were not gross when we beat your lot 2-0 wearing em.