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Soccer is now volleys

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penguiin
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since skiing has become ariels, soccer has become volleys. seems like all the top goals were volleys this year.

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May 15 2012 12:10AM
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Peter.
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>skiing has become ariels
>ariels

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May 15 2012 12:16AM
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penguiin
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I am tired, excuse my horrendous grammar mistake.
May 15 2012 12:23AM
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Rafiki
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i counted 3 actual volleys, that's definitely not most.
May 15 2012 12:24AM
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will_powder
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Can't get over the cisse goal. Just retarded. I almost pissed myself when I saw it live.
May 15 2012 12:50AM
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1337
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Some of those were sooooo sick
May 15 2012 1:05AM
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sweatshirt
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that was the shitiest song I've ever..
May 15 2012 1:15AM
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bakedpow
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Thierry henry

May 15 2012 1:18AM
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fujarome
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the only thing i don't like about cisse's is that it probably wasn't intentional. He just blasted the ball, caught cech off guard, and got lucky.

I like goals with intent. Like van persie against everton, or even rooney's overhead vs city last year (even though that was lucky as hell too)

It ends up being better when the strikers reaction is "yup. i just did that and never doubted for a second it would work out."
May 15 2012 1:19AM
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icon1234
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What do u mean it wasn't intentional. There was no time left on the clock, so he was clearly aiming for goal, and hitting the ball like that with the outside of your right foot is only going to give you that type of spin. I mean sure I don't think he expected the ball to be placed so perfectly,but to say that it was lucky is not fair, it wasn't like he meant to cross it but he accidentally shanked into the goal... A lot of the time all those players need to do is hit the ball with good contact and just have it be on target and it will just drift upper 90, like peter crouches goal.
May 15 2012 1:28AM
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bakedpow
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May 15 2012 1:33AM
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Anathema
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quality post
May 15 2012 1:35AM
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fujarome
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i feel like based upon the 2 goals you posted, we'd get along just fine discussing football.


And cisse's was still lucky. It was intentional in that he kicked it relatively towards the goal, but thats about all he did on purpose.


You want to see a quality, intentional goal look at the one bakerpow posted from henry. That has everything a great goal needs.
May 15 2012 1:41AM
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icon1234
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I don't know why you keep using the word intentional, each goal there the player shot the ball expecting the ball to go into the goal. Like I said its not like he shanked a cross and it goes into the goal, which is pretty common actually.

I mean obviously a goal from that far out has some "luck" to it, and by luck i mean that player is only going to be able to make that shot a handful of times. But that is what makes it great when they do make it happen in an actual game, hence why it was the #1 goal. I mean you could apply this argument of luck to like a shit load of game winning shots in basketball, but I mean that shouldn't take away from it being an amazing shot/goal...

And trust me I know where your coming from, when someone purposefully has a play in there mind and it works out perfectly aka henry goal, it def adds a lot of value to the shot. But just because a goal doesn't have that calculating aspect to it, it shouldn't discredit it.
May 15 2012 1:50AM
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fujarome
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no, it shouldn't, but those goals are held in higher regards by many simply because it's what makes a great striker great. Being able to do something most people, let alone other players cannot do, and then being able to repeat it is what separates them. Hence why goals like cisse's are known as wondergoals. They happen (usually more frequently than the name wondergoal implies) but they don't have that same degree of skill and calculation and repetition that sets aside the truly great strikers.


May 15 2012 1:59AM
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bakedpow
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I dont know about other people but I play soccer and 1 or 2 times throughout a game i play a ball or take a shot that was more my subconscious rather me thinking about where im gona play/shoot. even if im thinking of playing the ball somewhere else it kinda luckily makes it to a teammate in a different spot on the field. sometimes it's in an even better position.

lets call it subconscious intent. they have the skill to do it most the time, but on the particular play they kinda just swing at it hoping for gold.

so many people know zidane for the head butt, i wish more people realized he is in the top 5 players ever. i would say the top three with messi and pele.
May 15 2012 2:05AM
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Ski_the_east01
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This exactly. Obviously all of these goals are beautiful strikes, but there is a certain amount of luck that comes along when you smash the ball from outside of the box with the outside of your right foot. Not taking anything away from Cisse's goal because it was amazing...but I also prefer van persie's goal because you could tell that was EXACTLY what he wanted to do. As opposed to the crouch goal where it was a great strike, but also a good bit of luck to get it to fall just like that
May 15 2012 9:33AM
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Chupacabraj
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that was a sick set up, gotta love arsenal
May 15 2012 2:51PM
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snowisholywater
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cant get over ben arfa's goal (number 5) I remember it being goal of the month
May 15 2012 3:26PM
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H8CH
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NEWCASTLE!!!

Cisse's goal is epic... but Crouchey's goal for stoke should have been ahead of that buck toothed racist in 2nd....

"he Cheats, he Dives.... he hates the Jackson Five... Louis Suarez.... louis suarez"
May 15 2012 3:37PM
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Mike-O
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Dat Cissé goal, holy hell in a handbasket! Dynamic finish!
May 15 2012 3:40PM
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Mike-O
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Are you kidding me? Zidane is one of the most celebrated players of modern soccer, even all-time! Anyone who has any kind of sense in following football knows him, headbutt or not.

If you mean across the pond, then maybe, yeah.
May 15 2012 3:44PM
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1337
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hahahahahahahahaaha this had me laughing for a while
May 15 2012 3:46PM
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ECB
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May 15 2012 3:50PM
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H8CH
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50,000 geordies were signing it at him when Newcastle played Liver-fool at home this season... what an epic day that was...
May 15 2012 4:11PM
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icon1234
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Exactly, so that goal was pretty much once in a life time thing, I don't see how you can argue that it shouldn't be number one because of that...

Like I am not trying to debate the level of skill of the shot or even the player, simply the epicness of that goal. But I mean I know your saying, I am more impressed with henry's goal than for example cisse's, but cisses goal was more "epic".
May 15 2012 7:29PM
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bakedpow
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Ya im talking about america. we can only get americans to watch soccer if something like that happens.

i grew up watching this man do amazing things, the 98 world cup against brazil was one of my all time favorite games by any player. he took over.

May 16 2012 4:10AM
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BChaps1209
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volleys are so much fucking harder than they look
May 16 2012 6:26AM
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mudbone.
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what's that french woman's name?
May 16 2012 9:46AM
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fujarome
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the only match that i think he more directly, single handed dominated was the match vs brazil in 06. He didn't score the goal, but his freekick was perfectly placed, and he pretty much just made a fool of that brazil team like none other. In retrospect, that was probably the most stacked match of the tournament. Brazil and France were at their peaks and while france was the underdog, they were nothing to laugh at.


I miss the 2006 world cup. Something about a european setting makes them better.
May 16 2012 3:13PM
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