In any sport, there’s a “must-see” play that when you hear about, you scour the internet to see for yourself.
Tennis has the between the legs shot. Auto racing has frightening high-speed wrecks. The dunks in basketball or the diving catches in cricket and baseball certainly must qualify as well.
Football has plenty of these plays, but the goalkeeper scoring has to be near the top of the list for the sport.
So rare is the feat that the announcers covering Wednesday’s MLS Houston Dynamo CONCACAF Champions League match against Isidro Metapan took nearly a minute to figure out that it was Dynamo keeper Tally Hall who booted the ball into the goal.
Just into stoppage time in the first half in the match in Metapan, El Salvador, Hall took a free kick for the Dynamo halfway between midfield and the penalty box.
The Dynamo’s Brian Chang went up to head the ball, and collided in the air with Metapan keeper Jose Gonzalez, sending both to the ground and the ball unmolested into the net.
Check out the play here: http://web.mlsnet.com/media/video.jsp?content_id=7083195
In fairness, as goals by keepers go, this is very average. But it’s not something you see everyday.
Like all sports, we watch football to see either moments of excellence or moments of craziness, even if the latter is caused by a balloon on the pitch. It’s plays like this that make it worth it to stay glued to the action for all of the 90+ minutes.
Isidro Metapan defeated the MLS Cup Playoff bound Dynamo 3-2.
