Showing posts with label Tiro libre. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tiro libre. Show all posts
Rogério Ceni 100 goals
On 27 March 2011 legendary Brazilian goalkeeper Rogério Ceni scored this cracking free kick for São Paulo in a 2-1 win against Corinthians. He is the highest scoring goalkeeper in the history of professional football with 100 goals, see video below.
Mariano Donda golazo vs Tigre, Clausura 2011
On 27 March 2011 Tigre hosted Godoy Cruz in the seventh round of the Clausure 2011 tournement in Argentina. Mariano Donda had a brilliant first half, scoring this piledriver of a free kick and providing the cross for Álvaro Navarro to head home a second goal for the visitors. Tigre fought back in the second half with a couple of goals from Denis Stracqualursi to salvage a 2-2 draw.
Juan Román Riquelme vs Colón, Clausura 2011
On 27 March Argentine giants Boca Juniors faced a tough trip to Santa Fe to play Colón in the 7th round of the Clausura 2011 tournament. Boca had suffered a run of three consecutive defeats and lay down in 17th position in the table. Juan Román Riquelme secured a vital 0-1 win with this intelligent free kick to beat Colón goalkeeper Diego Pozo at his near post. I was particularly pleased with this goal as I predicted a 0-1 away win for Boca Juniors in my Clausura weekly preview article.
Roberto Acuña quick free kick vs Olimpia
On 13 March 2011 Paraguayan side Rubio Ñú faced a tough trip across Asunción to face unbeaten league leaders Olimpia.
The visitors were 1-0 down when they won a free kick in the 41st minute The quick thinking former Real Zaragoza player and Paraguay international Roberto Acuña hit the quick free kick catching the whole Olimpia team unaware. Rubio Ñú found two more goals in the second half to secure a shock win against the runaway league leaders.
Golazo: Renato Abreu vs Guaraní, Brasileirão 2010
On 20 November 2010 Guaraní faced a tough trip to Rio de Janeiro to face Flamengo in the 36th round of the Brasileirão 2010 championship. They desperately needed the 3 points in their battle to avoid relegation, however they ended up losing the game 2-1 in which former Guaraní midfielder Renato Abreu scored this magnificent free kick for Flamengo only 2 minutes into the game to add to his collection of brilliant free kick goals for the club.
Golazo: Luis Caicedo vs Deportivo Cuenca
On 14 November 2010 Deportivo Cuenca hosted Macará in an Ecuadorian Primera A game. Cuenca were in 2nd position and needed the win to gain on leaders LDU Quito, before kick off not many people would have bet on 2nd bottom side Macará to take a 0-2 away win featuring this brilliant quick free kick from midfielder Luis Caicedo.
Golazo: Teófilio Cubillas Brazil vs Peru, Copa América 1975
30 September 1975: Brazil hosted Peru in the first leg of the Copa América 1975 semi-final. The score was 1-1 but in the 82nd minute Peru earned a free kick which was curled magnificently into the net by Teofilio Cubillas. Peru went on to score another goal to give them a historic 3-1 win on Brazilian soil and a 2 goal advantage going into their home leg.
Brazil won the 2nd leg 2-0 so the winners were chosen by the drawing of lots, Peru were picked as the winners and went on to beat Colombia in the final to secure their 2nd continental championship.
Golazo: José Manuel Rey Ecuador vs Venezuela, WCQ 2007 - Monster free kick
13 October 2007. José Manuel Rey, (Venezuela's most capped player) lined up a free kick against Ecuador in the high altitude venue of Estadio Olímpico Atahualpa, in the first round of the gruelling South American qualification campaign for the 2010 World Cup.
Judging by his enormous run up, it seemed like the former Dundee FC player was going to have a crack at goal, surely not from that far out? But he did, unleashing an absolutely blistering shot and when the ball hit the net the stadium fell into stunned silence apart from a tiny pocket of travelling Venezuela fans.
Venezuela held on to record their first ever win against Ecuador in Quito and got their World Cup qualification campaign off to an unexpectedly good start. The traditional whipping boys of South America eventually finished 8th out of the 10 teams, but only 2 points behind the Uruguay team that made it all the way to the World Cup semi-finals.
Golazo: René Higuita, Nacional vs River Plate, Copa Libertadores 1995
Whenever English football fans think of eccentric Colombian goalkeeper René Higuita, generally the first thing that comes to mind is his outrageous trick at Wembley in 1995 and the second is probably his encounter with Roger Milla at the 1990 World Cup.
Fans of Argentine club River Plate have another moment etched into their collective memory. The occasion was the first leg of the 1995 Copa Libertadores semi-final. River had knocked out the holders, fellow Argentine side Vélez Sársfield in the quarter finals to set up their 8th Libertadores semi-final (they currently hold the record for the most semi final appearances with 13, but they've lost 9 of them).
River Plate's opponents were Colombian side Atlético Nacional, who had scraped through the group stage thanks to a last minute penalty save by Higuita against Universidad Cátolica of Chile.
Nacional hosted the first leg of the semi-final which they won 1-0 with this exquisite free kick from Higuita but River Plate rallied to win their home leg 1-0 to set up a penalty shootout which Nacional eventually won 8-7 after Higuita saved Matías Almeyda's penalty.
Unfortunately for Nacional, Higuita had an absolute stinker of a game in the first leg of the final against Grêmio of Brazil, in which he was at fault for all three goals. Nacional could only draw their home leg 1-1 and were beaten 4-2 on aggregate.
Golazo: Joãozinho, CRUZEIRO vs River Plate, Copa Libertadores final 1976
The 1976 Copa Libertadores final was played between River Plate of Argentina, hoping to win their first Copa Libertadores and Cruzeiro of Brazil hoping to become the first Brazilian team to win the Libertadores since Santos way back in 1963.
Cruzeiro won the first leg 4-1 and River Plate won the second leg 2-1 necessitating a playoff game in the neutral venue of Estadio Nacional in the Chilean capital Santiago.
With the score tied at 2-2 on 88 minutes and extra time looming Cruzeiro striker Joãozinho lined up a free kick and arced it over the wall into the top left corner of the River Plate goal instigating delirious celebrations from the Cruzeiro players and a mass brawl involving several of the River Plate players.
Aftermath
After failing to win in the 1966 and 1976 Copa Libertadores finals, River Plate won the title in 1986 and 1996 both times beating the Jimmy Whites of South American club football, Colombian side América de Cali (who lost all 4 of their Copa Libertadores finals to date 1985, 1986, 1987, 1996).
Cruzeiro failed to retain their title, losing the 1977 final to Boca Juniors (fierce rivals of River Plate), they won their second Libertadores in 1997 against Peruvian team Sporting Cristal and reached the final for a fourth time in 2009 where they lost to Estudiantes de La Plata of Argentina.
Great goals: Darío Capogrosso CAI vs Gimnasia Jujuy, Primera B Nacional 2009-10 - 70m goalkeeper goal.
20 March 2010: Comisión de Actividades Infantiles of Comodoro Rivadavia hosted Gimnasia y Esgrima de Jujuy, the home team were in desperate trouble at the foot of the relegation table and 0-1 down going into the last minute of injury time, the goalkeeper Darío Capogrosso fired one last long ball into the opposition penalty area from deep within his own half and scored. At the end of the season C.A.I. avoided relegation to the regionalised leagues after surviving a relegation playoff, by this time Capogrosso's goal had become an internet sensation with over 1.3 million Youtube views.
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