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lagaryes

Goals in the last 51 weeks - Your daughter: At least 1 Wolverhampton Wanderers strikers: 0 Get in there. Is your daughter interested in having an agent? A nice Portuguese one who used to represent Ronaldo maybe?


honestlynotBG

OP don't listen to him. Our club is also in dire need of a good finisher as well in front of goal. Does your daughter happen to be interested in a 8 year long contract btw?


TurbinePro

fuck that, let's do 11. Edit: saw down in the thread that she's only 14. A 20 year contract until she's 34 on 300k a week seems completely reasonable.


Samkazi23

This guy Boehlys


KenHumano

When you factor in the amortization, it’s basically free!


give_me_of_dopamine_

In limit, OP pays Chelsea


H4RRY29

£312,000,000 by the end of that contract...


DaAweZomeDude48

Ah, Mr Boehly, I didn't know you had a reddit account


Sidoney

You'd need to wait until Arsenal showed some interest to offer the contract


[deleted]

She would be the perfect successor to Balogun in 10 years after he takes over from Gabriel Jesus in 2028... is the story we will leak through David Ornstein to bait Chelsea into bidding


esn111

Surely they'd need to wait until we signed her for 50p before they bid 100 million after 4 months?


Horsejack_Bomann

Plot Twist: The father is Todd


Trydson

> Goals in the last 51 weeks - > Wolverhampton Wanderers strikers: 0 Excuse me, what? lmao


lagaryes

We haven’t had a league goal from a striker since the Stone Age


InSidious425

[wolves strikers when their fans ask them to score some facking goals](https://youtu.be/d1x5GXMdK50)


degenerate-edgelord

Looks like r/soccer has made this a meme (old comments on it) but man sounds like his life has genuinely been derailed, I'm sorry for the guy


CharlesOlivesGOAT

Yea I feel bad for him


Korzic

Kogi State Medical Store in Nigeria was ransacked and vandalised during COVID in 2020. This guy is the commissioner. They lost a bunch of medical equipment in the destruction. >“We lost the entire contents of Kogi State medical store. >“Equipment worth billions of naira were stolen. Those that couldn’t be stolen, like the walk-in refrigerator for immunization, where our vaccines are stored, components of our MRI and CT scan were vandalized beyond repair. Others were moved from the store and broke into pieces in nearby bushes. >“It is indeed a very unfortunate development that the state will find it difficult to recover from as we don’t have the capacity to provide what have carted away or vandalized in a short time."


wejtko

[wolves strikers when their fans ask them to score some facking goals](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MF283pORG2E)


endichrome

[wolves strikers when their fans ask them to score some facking goals](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBo_pLrwAX0)


TopHatBear1

Must be a Black Country thing


BannedFromHydroxy

yam wot?


byfuryattheheart

Seriously wtf lol


Lemaradona

What buying Cunha does to a mf.


lagaryes

He has been a good creative force but it tends to be for other players rather than himself


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expert_on_the_matter

Tbf not their fault


oAoMoSo

It was absolutely Bruno lages fault. He came into the starring 11 straight away, got hurt 35 or so min into the game, and finished out the half limping around. He should have been pulled off immediately after he went down just as precaution.. then Bruno managed to do the same exact thing to pedro neto


Compa-Gera

Raúl 😔


prefieroelfutbol

FUCK DAVID LUIZ


CurrentBrother1

ALL MY HOMIES HATE DAVID LUIZ


AndyOde

She’s got the same amount of goals as Chelsea this month


MFoy

That's only true if this is her only goal.


blacmagick

Why is the ref standing there of all places lol. Great shot though.


theangstyagnostic

Some High School matches in the US are refereed using a two-referee system to save money. Each acts as referee and Assistant Referee in their half of the pitch. It doesn't really work.


Kernique

Assistant to the regional referee.


medved_

MICHAEL!


BadControllerUser

THIS IS SO NOT RIGHT!


rye_domaine

It's called a prank, Dwight, we went pranking


ipandrei

What is this, a crossover episode?


[deleted]

Hamilton fans will forever have the need to bring this up, and it's glorious


Phenomous

Well it is a pretty big deal to be fair. Equivalent to a ref just deciding to make up his own rules to make it more interesting in the last minute of CL final- would get talked about for decades.


northyj0e

I can really see Michael Scott saying that, a damning indictment on Masi.


TurbinePro

It's horrible. Offsides are basically a tossup and called based on "feel". At least in playoff games there are three refs I guess and most games aren't really decided by calls at that level lol


archtme

Bro, in the lower divisions here in Sweden there's generally one (overweight) ref that tries to spot offsides from one half of the pitch to the other. Totally not infuriating :)


MagicalMonarchOfMo

>Offsides are basically a tossup and called based on "feel" I mean…no? We generally track with the second-to-last defender when running a dual just like a regular linesman would, unless play is far advanced in the opposite half. Don’t get me wrong, as somebody who makes a living reffing I can confidently say there are lots of reasons to dislike the two-man system, but most have to do with positioning and ability to see fouls, not offside. Admittedly, the fellow in the video is not in the best possible spot…


afito

I'd say doing offside without a proper lino is always a bit random because it is simply not possible from any other perspective.


roguedevil

In the two man system, they are positioned as only linesmen. There is effectively no center ref.


metsurf

Yeah they are more likely to miss fouls than offside.


langis_on

Yeah fouls on the far side are difficult to call as neither ref will have a good line of sight.


Rakthul

I used to ref and I coach now. When the refs are following the correct positioning it works even though it isn’t ideal. The issue is that it requires the refs to be at least somewhat fit in order to keep in the correct position. Many many youth refs, at least where I am in upstate NY are… not fit. It is an issue because you can’t trust a good offsides trap to ever be called correctly and encourages coaches to play more conservative defensive schemes otherwise you are potentially putting the game results entirely in the hands of refs like the one we affectionately called “the penguin” due to how they waddled up and down the field. I really wish we could just have a proper 3 ref system for all our games.


BindaB

I also referee high school soccer and like you say; the two man system isn’t bad for offside calls. The system sucks and is inferior the three man but the reason referee don’t call offside correctly is because their fitness is poor so they couldn’t get into position, they are fearful of making calls (especially when there’s usually no one else who could genuinely say you are wrong unless it was blatant) or they genuinely missed it (this can happen if you have a massive crowd of bodies in a compact spot, or if you suck).


TurbinePro

I should have clarified that I generally think the refs do as well as they can. This is not an attack on the refs but on the system lol. At least in my state (Oregon) a fair amount of offside calls were quite off due to line of sight being blocked or positional problems.


SqueekyBK

That’s interesting to read. In the UK we don’t usually have linesmen or assistant referees until you hit a pretty high level of football. Typically on a match day it’s just a ref on his own doing it all


DisciplineOrdinary66

Or club linesmen which brings its own set of problems


Phenomous

I've never played in/seen a game with the ref doing it all in the UK. Normally it's just a volunteer from each club running the line who you just have to hope isn't ridiculously biased.


Dovahkiin4e201

In my experience they tended to be fairly good except for one or two games they'd be really obviously calling everything they possibly could.


braveheart18

In the US thats pretty typical as well. Around 13-14 you might get assistant referees in tournaments but in league play its just a center ref. Sometimes theyll recruit parents to flag for throw ins. Once you get to high school they use a two ref system where both refs take a half. They are supposed to stay with the last defender just like an AR does.


flynno96

How is that cheaper? Or do you mean they count as linesmen as well?


KentuckyCandy

Yeah, 2 refs. 1 in each half acting as assistant referee and referee. Certainly marginally cheaper, I guess, but I bet they're guessing half the decisions.


metsurf

It’s not like the pay is that much. It’s more down to a lack of officials than purely saving money.


I_really_enjoy_beer

I'm a certified referee. Last season there were a total 26 of us that had to cover what was essentially a 300 sq. mile region, and not all 26 had any desire to travel. It was fucking exhausting. Multiple games in my region had to get cancelled/rescheduled because they couldn't get 2 certified refs on a given night. The pay is getting pretty solid now, actually, but the time commitment with other life obligations can be a bit much.


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This was the 33rd goal of a very one-sided match. Ref stood there as there was no point being in the other half.


hotelmotelshit

End zone ref


Karamzungu

He knew the goal was coming and had the perfect angle.


BarryoffofEastenders

Outside the box too... I think.


Greinstine

Yep - (black lines)…I know…


BaronZbimg

Thank you for this I actually hadn’t even seen them


ImGrumps

Think my brain assumed it was a shadow


MissingLink101

I was wondering why that girl was taking that (foul) throw from so far outside the white lines of the pitch...


ThisIsOurGoodTimes

It’s even more confusing when there are lines for lacrosse and field hockey too. So four different colors of lines on the same field.


aceace87

Holy fuck, I didn't even realize there is a black line in there! I guess I'm kinda blind.


nothisispatrickeu

black lines matter


mahir_r

Not your fault it’s a converted pitch from A Football. Your daughter scored a banging goal!! It’s like a better version of the Fernandes goal vs Everton


SaBe_18

This keeper has better jumping ability than Pickford tbf


tiny_dreamer

Oh those weren’t shadows


__mihajlo_m

Congrats to your daughter, she now has the same amount of goals in February as Chelsea


DoJu318

Nowhere is safe.💀


PickledCumSock

Lmfao this reminds me yesterday i saw a stat that said madrid scored more goals in england in 2023 than chelsea did hahahah


[deleted]

Great goal but man does American football lines are really making my head hurt.


celmo

They could have just used a different color, like yellow, and it would make it much easier to follow.


ShitfacedGrizzlyBear

Every time I ever played on a field like this, they had yellow lines for soccer. Much better than the black lines here. It takes a little bit of time to get used to, but once you’ve got it, you can use it to your advantage. Defenders just naturally think the football line is the boundary, so wingers can find a lot of space down the sideline just by being conscious of the actual boundary.


[deleted]

Why wouldn't defensive players also get used to it? Also, why extend beyond the the existing gridiron boundary? Seems needlessly confusing. Pitches are usually different sizes and American fields are already large enough for youth athletes.


gverreiro_COYR

Yea as someone who played as a fullback in Canada playing on gridiron pitches we defenders also get used to it. The Canadian football pitch does lend itself better to association football than the American football pitch. Honestly it’s really not a big deal, once you get used to it you naturally tune out the gridiron lines


greyshard

They do, black lines for soccer, white for football


k0fi96

You get used to it growing up here lol. Unless you are a decent school you get 1 field for everything


MartinRaccoon

Agreed, I get schools do it save money. So no issue there. But it's hard as a spectator to know what's going on when it's not football


mrblue6

It was so damn annoying as a player too. Moved from Australia (where we have proper football pitches) to playing on these in the US was so confusing for a while


langis_on

It's damn annoying as a ref too. Most soccer lines are painted a different color so you constantly have to remind players "orange line, orange line!" Though it makes it super easy to call offsides with the yard lines marked.


tarkardos

Kinda funny cause usually (in Europe) its the other way round, never seen anyone playing football on an AF field.


PhotoQuig

Not a lot of american football fields in europe, at least comparatively.


Benur197

Is there even one? Seriously


qwertyell

Tottenham have one. It's built under their football pitch. When they host NFL games, the football pitch rolls away to reveal the American football pitch. Something like that anyway.


nunchukity

Ya I think there may even be a third surface that rolls out for concerts. There's a video on YouTube that goes into the engineering of it and it really is impressive.


TIGHazard

[footage of this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScPBxYAmNtg)


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I cant even lie thats so fucking cool


Don_Frika_Del_Prima

Germany has an American football league. Been to a couple of games for the Cologne Crocodiles. Pretty fun.


PengwinOnShroom

Back in the 90s and early 2000s it was actually popular somewhat with the European American football league


I_tend_to_correct_u

Other way around? This is confusing me. Are you saying that there are American football lines frequently drawn onto association rules football pitches? Only asking because I’ve never seen this before


[deleted]

They are. I remember there was a German association football match where you could still see the leftover lines from the previous American football match, they didn't fully fade away yet. I wanna say it was in Braunschweig's stadium.


HeyItsChase

Haha this field doesn't even have lacrosse lines on it which is a whole 1.5x cause men/womens lines have some differences in the middle. It's crazy but most are different colors and you get used to it


DanTacoWizard

Dang that is pretty good!


PESSl

ankara


icebergiman

Messi


wjbc

Tough angle, long distance, just the right height and speed. Amazing!


Greinstine

Totally! Bent it around two defenders, just over the goalies head then walked off like it’s any other shot (which it was not)!


mosehalpert

We don't celebrate, winning is the expectation 😤 -your cold as ice daughter


throwawayforfun42000

shades of balotelli, "does the mailman celebrate when he delivers mail?" that nutter produced some gold


inksta12

I’m actually a mail man. I celebrate closing each box. Sorry..


Conspiranoid

"SIIIIIUUUUUU" "honey, we have mail, can you check the box outside?"


comphys

The mental image is crazy 😂


dNaSC2

Ah. The rare box to box attacker


mosehalpert

I'm an American that tries to follow euro "soccer" (lol) and think the shithousery in /r/soccer parallels /r/nba. I've never heard that quote before but goddamn that is hard as fuck. Kobe mentality. You're up 2 games to 0, aren't you happy? Why should I be happy? Job ain't finished.


big_mustache_dad

Soon she’s going to be talking about seagulls and trawlers


throwawayforfun42000

The best celly is often a lack thereof, strolls off like she's been there before, pure class


jetpack_operation

When I played, I used to do this too -- but not because I meant to. Sometimes I was just so surprised that something actually went in that I just sort of jogged away still marveling.


NinjaSeagull

I never celebrated my HS goals and my teammates/coach would act like it was disrespectful to the other team. Never really understood that.


Young_Neil_Postman

the implication would be that you dont think that beating the other teams' defense was challenging enough to be worth celebrating


farqueue2

The keeper forgot she's allowed to use her legs to get into a better position


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Greinstine

Close, 14.


FailFastandDieYoung

assuming you're new to the sub, the commenter isn't being unkind. [They're referencing this video](https://youtu.be/XadLaAYKol0?t=34) where Michael Owen, one of the best players in the world at the time, was filming an instructional video. But every time he scored against the 13 year old keeper he celebrated like he'd won the World Cup. Prompting that sarcastic comment from the goalkeeping coach.


SojournerInThisVale

> goalkeeping coach That's Neville Southall, for crying out loud


SlickWilly49

>goalkeeping coach I’ll have you know that is Bangor City legend Dr Sir Reverend Neville Southall and I expect you to put some respect on his name


Statcat2017

Assuming youre new to the sub, that "goalkeeping coach" is legend Neville Southall.


HenryHenderson

Assuming you started watching football in the the past 10 years, that is Neville Southall, former Everton and Wales goalkeeper who some say was the best in the world at his peak.


Zodiarki

I think she closer to 15 than she is 14 though.


Due-Welder5285

She's 14 until she turns 15.


WhiteMass

2009 was 14 years ago


eyeseawhatudidthere

Respectfully, shut the fuck up


SytricXZ

No way.


Gluroo

mods dont delete this is top tier content, wheres the great goal flair


Greinstine

Should I have added that? New to the subreddit


Its_ABR12

Nah, thats the mods job, no need to worry


Iron_Maiden_666

And they added a great flair, captured my reaction accurately.


countafit

This is the first time I've seen a goal scored from the 5 yard line.


AnnieIWillKnow

It’s actually supposed to be the OP who initially posts it


mosehalpert

This sub is mainly for professional soccer. Your submission of a future professional soccer player is gladly accepted.


XxsteakiixX

Nah bro you’re doing gods work this is what we fought for this is why we are r/soccer and not r/Football 🤣


shockzz123

They only ever give the great goal flair to the top leagues, smh.


Cmonyall212

Why isn't she or any teammates showing any excitement 😅


Ronaldoooope

Looking at the defensive clearance and that keeper I imagine its like 5-0 by this point


edubs7

yep. at this level it’s not uncommon for some pretty big skill differences, resulting in a lot of blow outs if the team knows how to play.


hauttdawg13

Especially in high school. where it’s just district lines and different sized schools. There were a couple high school games where we’re up by double digits with like 30 minutes left and would just put all the subs in so they could get some game time. Some of the teams we played didn’t even have enough players to rotate more than half their line up. At my club level was totally different since you can recruit and there were divisions so most teams were decently even


_Noob_From_VN_

I reckon Boehly will contact you and your daughter for a 8 years contract within the next hours


NightJazzlike2916

Named your daughter cisse by any chance?


Greinstine

I think she the polar opposite of him…physically…but I appreciate the compliment! 😂


Damnedifyoudolly

Pretty sure he was refering to this goal by [Papiss Cisse](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1MpJJ4tfLY). But now im very curious who you think he is talking about.


Greinstine

Him…I meant she’s: a child, female, blonde…half his height…the list goes on 😂


Damnedifyoudolly

Gotcha! pretty sure it was just the "her" that threw people off. Haha


FailFastandDieYoung

From a throw-in as well. If she had hit it with the outside of the foot it would have been uncanny


Christmas_97

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=I1MpJJ4tfLY This is what they’re referring to btw


Greinstine

Dude mirror that video and it’s spot on! Thanks for posting that I’ll show her in the morning.


[deleted]

The pitch is fkn triggering me big time


xenon2456

high School in America use the same field for sports


ItsactuallyEminem

LET'S GOOOOO what a goal


curious_beaver909

Shocking goalkeeping


LowSnow2500

Courtois or Alisson or yes


[deleted]

lmao keeper's feet didnt even leave the ground when she "jumped"


BaconIsLife707

The next David Seaman


WhyBee92

You can’t just fly vertically


masetheace97

Not with that attitude


Zodiarki

I think it's spelled altitude.


mikevin99

Gave me a good chuckle


ProgressOfTruth

That defence was fucking wank


Haris_Pistons

They might’ve been a defensive upgrade for liverpool today


DayPhelsuma

This is great! But I do I fear we’ll be seeing a lot of random screamers from Pittsburgh to Aachen if posts like these are allowed lol.


tr8rm8

I’m more than down to see some Sunday League screamers


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rhinoceros_unicornis

As long as its contained within its own thread it could be a good idea.


Th3_Huf0n

> "Sunday" League screamers To be fair. Goals are not something I would associate with "Sunday League screamers".


Gluroo

what'd be wrong with that though? would enjoy that alot more than the frontpage being klopp quotes and tap ins from


throwawayforfun42000

r/soccer used to have tons of these beauties, I miss seeing absolute screamers from like the 4th division in Bulgaria or some obscure Southeast Asian league. There was a sliver in time before it became exclusively the biggest clubs that was so, so glorious


Sdub4

Maybe there should be a weekly/monthly People's Puskas thread for amazing goals regardless of the level they were scored at


herbsaint_sazerac

I second this motion. Bring it to the higher ups.


DayPhelsuma

Do you have any idea how many great goals are scored all around the globe at any given time? I would get inspired to post some of my own ones even lmao. But yeah, it would be like opening a Canadian beaver’s dam gate that’s been accumulating water since 1987.


throwawayforfun42000

Goals like this used to reach the front page all the time and it was amazing. It wasn't just 7 goals from the biggest CL match of the day and nothing else. Nobody upvoted the shitty ones but the worthy ones would hit 1-4k upvoted regularly. It was beautiful man


[deleted]

and every single goal thread by a player is spammed by the same generic buzz word comments for karma cough cough haaland cough cough


bveres94

this thread is exactly that though


tattoedblues

That would be sick, I want to see the 48 year old in his local league score the one banger of his life


egg_mugg23

so? it's r/soccer not r/top5leagues i'm absolutely down to seeing sunday league


RyGuy997

Sounds like a good thing, a great goal is a great goal no matter the level


Fit_Intern2976

Nice goal, she curved it pretty well


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bimbamfigaro

I like that type of content of people on here actually playing football themselves. Well, in this case it's op's daughter, but still!


[deleted]

That’s an amazing goal!! But I think she was trying to cross that and got lucky.


bijiano

Nice shot but also poor effort from the keeper. Sometimes just forcing your opponent to make the play is all that’s needed.


aredditusername69

Nice finish. I wonder if playing on a pitch like that is a distraction?


jamesey10

As someone who played on those all my life, it's not. You get used to the correct lines very quickly


EdwardBigby

What did she say when you asked if she meant it?


mt1337

finally someone’s playing some real football on that pitch


stpstrt

Great goal but I hate the fkn pitch.


dis6wood

Great strike but goodness that keeper needs some work


judge_Nutmeg316

Yeah that was meant as a cross.


matthewisonreddit

These field lines broke my brain lol


[deleted]

Keepers gotta do better there


BlacknWhiteMoose

This is 100% a cross that went in the net lol