The classic length-of-court clearance/leaping scissor kick goal. I don’t pay much attention to indoor soccer, but trying that move on a hard surface demonstrates a certain commitment. Practice it four times and your spine could hit the net before the ball does.
[via Rigg’s Replays]
Read More: Futsal
by Brian Phillips · December 10, 2008
“Indoor soccer…” Ouch.
This looks like Futsal to me, the recognized FIFA game that many top-level players, especially in Brazil, use to develop ball skills. Indoor soccer is that thing where I pay seventy-five bucks a season to play slow and clumsy defense for five minutes at a time against Select-Club washouts who, as far as it matters to me, might as well be those same top-level Brazilians I just mentioned.
It is futsal, or “calcio a 5” as it is called in Italy.
The team in white is AS Roma’s futsal team, which plays in Serie A2b of the Italian league (which is full of Brazilians). I’m afraid that I don’t know who the guys in hot pink are.
The team in pink are Arzignano Grifo, although their their uniforms look sort of like the alternativo kits Italian Wikipedia lists for Caffe Moak Scicli, which sounds tastier.
The goalscorer for Roma is Fabricio Calderolli, who’s Italian, although a cursory look through some team rosters confirms ursus’s statement that the Italian futsal league is essentially a study-abroad program for Brazilians.
What I can’t figure out is how, if Calderolli can do that, Roma are sitting in last place in Serie A2/B, with one point from nine matches and a goal differential of (this must be a futsal thing?) -111.
Now, can someone please say “awesome!”?
Hard to tell, but the pink goalie looks like yer average indoor keeper: fat, and in completely the wrong position for that goal (however unexpected it might have been). Mind you, I play in goal for my indoor footie team, plus I’m fat *and* I was once lobbed by a header so who am I to talk.
Awesome!
Thank you.
And I’m not sure I’ve ever seen a goalie as thoroughly beaten as this one is. (Although if futsal teams are able to rack up goal differentials of -111, it must happen often.) In the replay he’s already looking sullen and confused about what went wrong before the ball is even in the net.
There is a team in the Highland Football league, Fort William, that racked up a difference of -142 (GF 16, GA 158). Going by that, I’d say their keeper is enormous, but not enormous enough to block the entire goal, which is a tactic that might work for the team in question.
And I don’t want to be snooty about it, but just about every goal in the Highland league is like that one, honest. Nae pinks shirts though.
That Goal Was Immense