Pre-season’s always good for a few things—checking out your team’s youth players and reserves, seeing your team on tour (especially if they come stateside), the relief that losing doesn’t mean anything with regard to the upcoming season—but perhaps the best element of these summer fixtures is that you’re guaranteed a cracking goal every couple of days from some player you’ve never heard of.
Saturday night’s Pirelli Cup game between Internazionale and Manchester City in Baltimore was a prime example. After the referee destroyed the game by sending Patrick Vieira off inside 20 minutes—yet another example of Marco Materazzi getting a Frenchman dismissed—and Inter’s Victor Obinna scored a brace, all that was left to show was 18-year-old Cristiano Brighi and his long-range shooting skills.
Not bad, either:
The Matrix can DIAF
Man City’s kits look almost exactly like the USMNT kits.
That was also a pretty sweet goal.
@Goosie
Yeah, they busted out those kits as their third kit last season. Surprisingly good look
MarcAlbrighton’s was better.
I was there and it was crazy. Though from my angle–which was from behind him–you couldn’t tell just how far away he was. Replays did the strike justice.
He looks shocked that he scored it as well, which tells you something.
Also, is it just me, or is his name misspelled somewhere – the back of his jersey at 0:09 as well as the youtube title say “Birgahi” not Brighi.
Always willing to correct you guys.
Sorry, it’s supposed to say Biraghi, not Brighi. Spelling mistakes happen.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F.C._Internazionale_Milano_Primavera
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&client=firefox-a&hs=r2k&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&q=cristiano+biraghi&aq=0p&aqi=g-p2g2g-s1g5&aql=&oq=cristiano+b&gs_rfai=
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It was early in the AM and my typing was poor. Thanks Hannibal
Gotta love his reaction after he sees it go in. He looked almost embarrassed to have scored from there.