And there are still so many legendary long shots missing. The Roberto Carlos goal, the other Roberto Carlos goal, Kompany vs Leicester, Ibra vs England, ...
you forgot about that Roberto Carlos goal 😏 i can see why he was left off the list here, he could have his own version of this listing all to himself (and does on other vids lol)
As a goalie, it always looks bad for you, when someone makes a goal 45 meters away. But from the perspective of the goalie, the ball moves in the air. The perfect knuckle ball is just so hard to block or catch. When it looks likes the ball goes in the left corner, 1 second later it seems to go over the goal in the right corner. When the ball flies into the goal, it hits in the down left corner. Everybody thinks, you made the mistake. Just play good and everything is okay after the game.
I always blamed the outfield players for a allowing the shots on goal or not scoring more at the other end :) To be fair I was never blamed nor took the blame unless it was a massive screw up. That's football :)
Not only is the Vardy goal (6th one shown) an amazing strike but at the start of the season the team were 5000/1 odds to win the league. They won and the betting houses lost a hell of a lot of money.
In the thumbnail I see my hero Van Bronckhorst (in Orange with number 5). Why isn't he in the video? He scored an outrageous goal in the Word Cup semi-final against Uruguay.
So ypur favorite aspect of the game where players run with the ball and get past defenders is called Dribbling and its really satisfying when a player goes on a run then scores
The sport “football” has a ton of different versions of the sport with its own ruleset, so it’s technically more of an umbrella term. “Soccer” is the shortened word for “association football” which is what the rest of the world know simply as “football” as it is the most popular version of football.
American Football was derived from Rugby Football which itself was once the same game with Association Football. They Split into Association And Rugby Football first. I think it Was Harvard University that first had Rugby Football from which American Football (or Grid Iron) was born. This is why it is still Called American Football despite the Foot being rarely used for ball control these days.
A beauty of a free kick by Chris Maguire for Scotland and a gorgeous 53m clearance into goal by Kemar Roofe for rangers in Europa League ( in the pouring rain) 😚👌
I played soccer growing up, and my last 5 seasons i was a goalkeeper, and handy enough to win leagues best GK 3 of those 5 seasons. My older brother played against me with a different local club and scored from inside the centre circle once, against me. We still argue now about it, 19 years later 😂 I still swear my defenders and a few of their players blocked my view, and it was a knuckle ball hit quite hard and low. He won't take that and tells me i had no chance. Somewhat agree. So, you could imagine how a pro feels in that situation.
I'm not a huge fan of the game, but I have to say, it's the most exciting sport I've watched purely from the spectator perspective. The part that makes it special to me is that even though the players are incredibly fit and skilled, everything just seems insanely random. Like there will be a perfect opening to score and it gets completely flubbed. Or there is no way in hell to get a goal and yet it happens anyway. It's just an emotional roller coaster from start to finish and just sharing that emotional journey with the other spectators is a very unique experience. I can absolutely understand why people love it so much.
goals like this are awesome but to see what the game is really all about watch a compilation of the greatest team goals, with slick movement and passing
As a goalkeeper, nothing you can do against these balloons of today. That's why you don't see many keepers diving to a corner to catch the ball. They should also make a compilation of shots ending up at the parking lot. Just to show anything can happen. Myself, I love to see the hard low shot, floating just above the grass. You just know when you're too late to dive, that's when you see the frozen stand.
Where u mentioned the ball had its own mind, i think the ball was jabulani which was famous for its unpredictable movement and was a nightmare for goalkeepers. It was the official one of 2010 world cup
All players and coaches kept whining about it. Maradona kept whining about it. There was only one player who dominated the Jabulani and that was my fellow countryman DIEGO FORLÁN, whose freekicks should be on this video, btw, and he could hit it with both legs. 😊 Not even "glorious" Messi can do that. 😒
By a shear coincidence there was an article on the BBC sport web site a few days ago writing about the demise of "The Screamer." This a nickname here in the UK for the kind of goal you are featuring in your video. Apparently, the majority of goals scored in the English professional leagues currently, are from close range which is a disappointing statistic if it's true. There have always been goal "poachers" in the game. Strikers who specialise being in the right place at the right time to score goals from close range. However, that type of goal will always be an important part of the game, but for me the "screamer," hitting the top corner of the net from thirty five yards out, will always be the most exciting part of any match. Some people claim that the lack of long range shots is down to retaining possession of the ball at all costs, as a team advances on the opponents goal. Possibly, who knows, hopefully there are still a few coaches left who will encourage their strikers to "have a go," if the opportunity presents itself.
I'd say that, if that's a true statistic, the decrease in the number of screamers, just like the rise of the cautious possession football mentality, comes down to attempting to lower the impact of chance/luck in the game and managing risk. Even though screamers are amazing to watch and some of them are mostly down to skill, power and precision the truth is the majority are very very much dependent on luck. Even in this compilation there are several goals that are obviously not intended by the scorer, or are at least very lucky to find themselves in the net. It's an unfortunate side effect of how competitive and improved every aspect of the game has become. It's why people also talk about the death of the flair player, the magician dribbling and toying with the opposition.
I think there are more screamers scored now, than in the past, as balls have become lighter, and boot technology has improved. I also enjoy a good team goal .
There are so many variations of 'football' games, such as American Football, Rugby Football, Australian Rules Football, Canadian Rules Football , Association Football ('Soccer' is a shortening of 'association') etc.. and some will involve more kicking with the foot than others. Association Football just happens to be the version that is more centred around using the feet than the other versions.
Wow!! The collaboration everyone needed! Great reaction, Polo would love to see more! Btw 7:30 if you are into that kind of goals, Messi is the one you should look for. It's his style to dribble past multiple defenders before scoring a goal
"Soccer" is derived from the term "social football". So what the US calls football is the rough&tumble original version, while soccer is the refined version with stricter rules and fewer injuries.
Back in the late 1800's/early 1900's, very few Americans had even heard of European Football. The first time we became aware of it on a large scale was when a bunch of us went over to Europe in WW1. American Football was already a thing by then so we called it by the slang term The British used for it at the time, "Soccer," to avoid confusion.
If you like you could learn about the split of Rugby and Association Football in the early to mid 1800´s in Britain. It explains why the Americans call their game football. But you´re right. It confuses less when you call it soccer. Even if you don´t play the game with the feet. Sorry for my bad english.
As an old fart I will say that one of the reasons for so many 'recent' goals here - apart from the fact that every game now is filmed from 20 different angles - is that the technology has improved so much over time. Better boots, lighter footballs which are basically designed to fly, and of course the players are fitter, stronger and better trained than ever before. Great selection of goals here, but the video could easily have been 2 hours long. I especially love seeing amazing goals like these from the lower leagues where you might not expect that kind of quality.
@@patinho5589 You're quite right, but nobody was bending / dipping a free kick 23° around a wall in 1950 when the ball was like a sack of potatoes and so were the boots. I say that as someone whose Al Bundy moment was scoring direct from a corner against our rival school team in ~1978. The fact that the goalkeeper was about 4'6" had nothing to do with it. Side note - once I learned how to curl a ball, I somehow completely lost forever the ability to kick a ball straight again.
Modern goalkeepers position themselves much higher on the pitch nowadays to help their team in possession. All of the super-long range goals in this video come from the goalie being way off his line. (Except the last couple where the goalie thought the defenders would deal with the ball and it bounced over him instead.)
Zach Thornton, goalie, won the distance competition at the soccer all star games more than once. When asked about it, he said he had a "big butt" and that made all the difference. Think that las Tim Howard goal.
I was playing one of my last G14 games in the midfield, and this guy from the other team tackled me really badly, and I didn't get a freekick. I was so pissed off. Seconds later the ball ended up at my feet at a half-bounce, and I just blasted it with everything I got -didn't even try aiming for the goal, just wanted to kick it away in anger, got a perfect hit somehow, and it curved like nothing I've ever seen. A good goalkeeper would have saved, but it went in from about the halfway mark. Incredible feeling, even if it was pure luck.
You call it Football because American Football is a variation of Rugby. Which was called Rugby Football when it was first brought to America universities from the UK. Rugby is still called Rugby Football today.
When you say it looks like he kicked the ball another way, football players are well aware of the spin effects on a ball and the turn it’s gonna make. So it was intended
Soccer is called football in Europe because they kick the ball they always use the ball with their even though America call it soccer it’s called football
The original laws of the game required that the ball carrier ground the ball ("touch the ball down"), as is the case in rugby today. The game evolved, but the vernacular remained. As for the name of the game, it is simply one of many codes of football - association, gridiron, Aussie Rules, Rugby, Gaelic, etc - that exist today. As for the infrequent use of feet in the American game, that is another example of the game evolving without changes in vocabulary. The original game contained elements of association, rugby, and Gaelic football. Kicking was once the principle means of advancing the ball. Today, kicking is obviously a less prominent (yet still critical) feature of the game. Association football is my first sporting passion (Celtic FC for life). However, being American, I love our game as well. And yes, amongst other Americans, I do say "soccer". If you don't like it, blame the English. They invented the word.
A lot in this video were indeed Hail Mary shots. The one with the keeper are those instances where the ball is picked up by the wind and gets really high before plummeting like a rock maintaining all its momentum and speed. That's the trick of these attempts is to get the height in. In modern days with such light balls its a bit easier but you risk the ball swirling too much and when picked up by the wind its out of control.
5:20 this guy is the king of free kicks, during 8 seasons at one of his clubs (Lyon) he scored 100 goals as a attacking midfielder. 44 of those were free kicks from, no joke, any angle on the field. Juninho Pernambucano currently still holds the record for most free kicks and he stopped playing 10 years ago.
To answer your question "what does it feel like to let in a goal like that", well goalkeepers will always be gutted whenever they let a goal in, but in most of these cases in the video it doesnt matter how good or bad the goalkeeper is or does, some shots are simply just unstoppable. When theyre hit with such power and theyre so far into the corner its literally impossible for a keeper to save it. It doesnt happen often though, in a full season in the premier lesgue you might be lucky if you see 5-6, which isnt alot considering theres 20 teams that all play 38 games a season. 😮
6:07 it just feels like your powerless. Some shots are just so perfect you just can’t stop them. It sucks but you’re secretly impressed cause goals like that one are just sublime
Last goals from 90+ m with big bounces like in the video are mainly due to wind, you can see trashes flying around the goalkeeper when he kicks on the ball.
A world class goalie nearly can’t be beat by long shots past 40 meters. Neuer did get one over 60m at Schalke but that was the result of him kicking the ball out and a direct volley not leaving him time to get back. Since then that has never happened again…
American football is called that because when it was first created, goals could only be scored with the feet, shooting over the bar. The rules have evolved since then.
Football isn't named football because you kick the ball with your feet. It's called football because you play it on foot. When the name came to be used, in the late middle ages, the word football was used to distinguish it from sports, by nobility, "played" on horseback, like fox-hunting or boar-hunting. In the first football games there was a ball, but it wasn't really kicked but carried. Goals were often miles apart and teams were made up of whole neighborhoods. And games often got very violent. These days there are still games played known as folk football.
3:39 Is that ehat I heard?? Man, he's probably the most accurate passer football has ever seen. There's a reason why we call him German Sniper. He really stands up for his name.. KROOS.
the shot @14:00 the ball is kicked in such a way(probably not even on purpose) that the long airtime just makes it keep spinning faster and faster, when it hits the ground and bounces it literally leaps like 5 feet
The English actually called it "soccer" first. There were multiple types of football. Mainly rugby football and association football("soccer" for short). As association football became the clearly dominant form of football, it ended up being called just "football". The Americans stuck with "soccer" and since they had their own type of football that was way more dominant than association football, they called their version football.
They should have included George Best's goal against England, when he kicked the ball over the goalie's head. The goal was legitimate, but the referee disallowed it. Pele called George Best the best football player in the world. There's a video here of him dribbling the ball expertly. Matter of fact, that's something you should watch, if you have time: amazing dribbling skills in football.
I saw both of them play live. Sadly, neither in their prime, but still great memories. Pele in the US when he was with the Cosmos. George Best in England, later in his career when he was with Fulham.
Had Madden on the Sega Mega Drive (Genesis in the US) when I lived in the UK, only one of us had a clue about American Football and he'd consistently whoop our arse. It's just how it goes bud
It’s called football because the ball used is measured at 1 foot (12 inches) also, we aren’t the only ones to call it soccer, Australia and Ireland are the other main 2 to call it Soccer
There‘s one of the first long shot goals missing from Klaus Augenthaler that scored a banger for Bayern Munich against Eintracht Frankfurt Another one is Bernd Schuster for Bayer Leverkusen
Goalkeepers often advance towards the edge of the penalty area, and have been embarrassed many times with a long range shot sailing over their heads into goal.
@@kimbirch1202 At the same time goalkeepers get ridiculed, if they cant intercept a long pass, becsuse they stayed in the 5 mtr box. They have to play Last Man now also. Its never good haha
American Football is called football because it is part of the Football Family tree. Very early American Football was more like Football/Soccer than American Football. The first recognized Football game was played with mostly Football/Soccer FA rules. The introduction of Rugby rules in the 1870s gave it the likeness to Rugby that we can clearly see today. Finally, the introduction of unique rules by Walter Camp made American Football is own distinct sport. The name Football stuck because back then the only distinction people made was what rules were in play. It was Football Association Rules for Football/Soccer, Rugby Football Union Rules for Rugby, Intercollegiate Football Association Rules for American Football, etc. Clear distinction evolved later.
Actually the name Soccer came from the English themselves - the inventors of the game: The game was originally called football, coz you played the ball with your foot. Then, in the town of rugby, someone got frustrated and picked up the ball and ran with it and this new variation of the game stuck. It eventually became known as “Rugby football” but at first they just called it football too. Because of that, to avoid the confusion, the creators of the original football decided to differentiate it from the one played in rugby so they created an association to lay down the rules of the game; which is why it was renamed “association football”. This was slanged to “assoc”, then slanged again to “soccer”. Meanwhile, “rugby” football became known as just “rugby”, so soccer slowly got its original football name back. But not before a whole bunch of English immigrants went to the US, where they were still calling it soccer. It’s also the reason why American football is called football: Those English immigrants to the US were still calling rugby, “rugby football”. And as the game slowly evolved from rugby to what it is now, it no longer needed to be called “rugby” football - just football. Blame the English for everything! 😂
I think "soccer" came back to the UK via the French. It was an English university thing: they liked to play with words so that rugby football became "rugger" and association football became "soccer" (and later "footy"). Both games were football though. So yeah - American Football, or "Gridiron", is a variation of Rugby Football.
@@Paulorr3 soccer is just short for association football. If youre not playing for an association like a club then youre just playing football. Calling the whole sport soccer is silly, like calling american football just 'nfl'
I was at the game where the one shot that went across the floor was scored, and my seat is right behind the shot. It was a goal as soon as it left Thiago's boot. I still don't understand how it accelerated *after* bouncing, though.
You really have to respect the talent of the players at the top tier. One of the things that really amazes me is that it's estimated that over 200 million people play "soccer" around the world, and these guys are the best. Compare that to the NFL (American Football) where about 5 million people play. Would Tom Brady still be considered the best QB in the world rising above a 200 million plus talent pool? Not knocking him, or any other NFL star, but it kind of puts it in perspective.
The goal at 7.15 was in Brazil. I don't there was an English commentator in the original soundtrack. Who created the video probably replaced the Brazilian commentator by that English commentary
The ones where the ball bounced over the goalkeeper always make him look bad as he could have just taken some steps back and caught the ball. But on the other side,if there are players close to where the ball bounces he wants to be a bit closer to them to challenge them when they take the ball so he needes to find a way of somewhat covering both possibilities and those goals happen when the keeper commits too much towards covering for other players taking the ball.
All goals here are poems really and i'm certain there are more missing this list. Low shots are the most skilled and powerfull by far for me because the high ones are always in advantage against keepers. There are 2 crucial factors on a high long range shot to consider when you judge the keeper's level of responsibility. 1) The high long shots usually come from above (dah) and things like stadium lights/sun/night darkness (depending the hour they play and highest point of the shot) can potentially hinder the view of the keeper. 2) Ball gets accelaration when goes downwards in weird ways so if you can't see the starting speed from side potition and it comes in straight line, kinetic vision from certain pov can't help you much. Also i can't really talk about potitioning since the keeper's away potition most of the times is a standard on how high the defensive line can go to help keep lines close from tactical prespectives.
Its easier nowadays with a modern football, it also curves a lot more, back in the 70's the ball was heavier and less air dynamic and the pitches in the UK were sometimes like mud if it had been raining. Prior to that was the lace up ball. If it got wet it was like a medicine ball. Heading the damned thing was like getting a punch on your head.
Jhon Duran (yes, that's the correct spelling) hit a goal for Aston Villa against Everton with weekend that will be on future compilations like this. A 32 yard blast that curled away from the goalkeeper into the top corner. It was much prettier than Bellingham's goal in this video. POLO should react to a Juninho free kick compilation. He's truly the greatest free kick taker of all time. His mastery of every technique is amazing.
@@MrVvulf Thank you, mate. Though the prognosis is not good. I'd rather not think about it. Agree with you on the Juninho (Pernambucano) front. Incredible free kick taker and vastly underrated. 'Our' Juninho was Paulista, the little fella. Middlesbrough stalwart and exceptional in his own right. Both amazing players.
Don't apologise for calling it soccer, here in the UK we called it soccer and then changed it to football. It was originally called Association Football and we abbreviated the word Association to Soccer. I think it was sometime around the 1940/50's we then dropped the word soccer and called it football instead. America just didn't change it because by then you already had another game called football, which makes sense. I'd guess you call your game football because maybe it derived from Rugby in some way, which was called Rugby Football back in the day. That name just got abbreviated to Rugby. I never understand why some of my fellow Englishman/other areas of the UK get so annoyed at the word soccer considering that's the original name we gave it.
The second to last one was Tim Howard. One of the greatest American keepers ever. Played for Everton and Manchester United in the EPL
Kevin Durant could do better imo😂😂😂😂
One of the greatest? Who else?
@@HectorMariecoteBrad Friedl was better imo...had a loong career in the UK
@@marecare77 Totally forgot him. He was great also.
Tim had like a 120kmh wind behind him that day as well... I remember that game - one of the windiest ever played.
And there are still so many legendary long shots missing. The Roberto Carlos goal, the other Roberto Carlos goal, Kompany vs Leicester, Ibra vs England, ...
I love how anyone understands this sentence : "The Roberto Carlos goal, the other Roberto Carlos goal"
you forgot about that Roberto Carlos goal 😏 i can see why he was left off the list here, he could have his own version of this listing all to himself (and does on other vids lol)
Haha the roberto carlos freekick and the volley from beckham assist 😂
the seedorf scorcher... some say it's still on it's way up
Diego's 68.25m goal for Werder Bremen vs Alemannia Aachen also is missing, that was an outrageous goal
As a goalie, it always looks bad for you, when someone makes a goal 45 meters away. But from the perspective of the goalie, the ball moves in the air. The perfect knuckle ball is just so hard to block or catch. When it looks likes the ball goes in the left corner, 1 second later it seems to go over the goal in the right corner. When the ball flies into the goal, it hits in the down left corner.
Everybody thinks, you made the mistake. Just play good and everything is okay after the game.
I always blamed the outfield players for a allowing the shots on goal or not scoring more at the other end :)
To be fair I was never blamed nor took the blame unless it was a massive screw up. That's football :)
@@Smoshy16 I wasn’t blamed either, but it’s kinda embarrassing xD.
I feel ya, but then again.. It's just perspective. Juninho.. R. Carlos & Hulk they we're unstoppable.
As a goalie. Thoughts on the Meslier...uhm..."slight" mistake the other day? 😅(Should add that i'm a Leeds fan).
If you haven't already you should watch a Juninho Free Kick compilation
Zlatan Ibrahimovic's 30-yard bicycle kick should have been in this video😅
/Sweden
As an English man in Sweden who was in a pub surrounded by Swedes while that was on TV even I gave that goal a standing ovation.
@@CummyPancakes Yeah. That one was once in a lifetime.
I was thinking the same, I was waiting for it when the distance was getting there but they completely skipped it. That goal was beautiful
Thank you so much for admitting the ugly truth. By saying that "we Americans are living in our bubble here".
Respect.
If you love when they shake a bunch of defenders and then score then a Lionel Messi solo goals highlight reel is a must.
Robben works to
Not only is the Vardy goal (6th one shown) an amazing strike but at the start of the season the team were 5000/1 odds to win the league. They won and the betting houses lost a hell of a lot of money.
In the thumbnail I see my hero Van Bronckhorst (in Orange with number 5). Why isn't he in the video? He scored an outrageous goal in the Word Cup semi-final against Uruguay.
Yeah pretty scummy to put him in the thumbnail but not in the video
David Beckham’s goal from the halfway line should have made this video. Sensational goal.
So ypur favorite aspect of the game where players run with the ball and get past defenders is called Dribbling and its really satisfying when a player goes on a run then scores
The sport “football” has a ton of different versions of the sport with its own ruleset, so it’s technically more of an umbrella term. “Soccer” is the shortened word for “association football” which is what the rest of the world know simply as “football” as it is the most popular version of football.
Gio’s one was superb in the semi final of the WC
These are great examples of why it’s called “the beautiful game” Thanx🤓
Imagine a situation like that:
90m distance Goal
Referee whistles: "Offside!"
🤣🤣🤣
Not possible bro, offsides only happen when you're on the attacking zone (past midifield). In other words it only could happen within 50 meters)
@@1luisp4 There are some leagues where it CAN happen and rules be damned ;)
@@Justforvisit Sounds like a worldcup semi final.
Smartest American ever
Impossible, can’t be offside in your own half
American Football was derived from Rugby Football which itself was once the same game with Association Football. They Split into Association And Rugby Football first. I think it Was Harvard University that first had Rugby Football from which American Football (or Grid Iron) was born. This is why it is still Called American Football despite the Foot being rarely used for ball control these days.
A beauty of a free kick by Chris Maguire for Scotland and a gorgeous 53m clearance into goal by Kemar Roofe for rangers in Europa League ( in the pouring rain) 😚👌
In case you did'nt notice, while most are from easily 50 or 60ty yards away, some goals are made from the goalkeepers, almost a hundred yards away...
I played soccer growing up, and my last 5 seasons i was a goalkeeper, and handy enough to win leagues best GK 3 of those 5 seasons. My older brother played against me with a different local club and scored from inside the centre circle once, against me. We still argue now about it, 19 years later 😂 I still swear my defenders and a few of their players blocked my view, and it was a knuckle ball hit quite hard and low. He won't take that and tells me i had no chance. Somewhat agree.
So, you could imagine how a pro feels in that situation.
I'm not a huge fan of the game, but I have to say, it's the most exciting sport I've watched purely from the spectator perspective. The part that makes it special to me is that even though the players are incredibly fit and skilled, everything just seems insanely random. Like there will be a perfect opening to score and it gets completely flubbed. Or there is no way in hell to get a goal and yet it happens anyway. It's just an emotional roller coaster from start to finish and just sharing that emotional journey with the other spectators is a very unique experience. I can absolutely understand why people love it so much.
goals like this are awesome but to see what the game is really all about watch a compilation of the greatest team goals, with slick movement and passing
As a goalkeeper, nothing you can do against these balloons of today. That's why you don't see many keepers diving to a corner to catch the ball. They should also make a compilation of shots ending up at the parking lot. Just to show anything can happen. Myself, I love to see the hard low shot, floating just above the grass. You just know when you're too late to dive, that's when you see the frozen stand.
Agree, we don't see the failures which are the majority of shots.
Where u mentioned the ball had its own mind, i think the ball was jabulani which was famous for its unpredictable movement and was a nightmare for goalkeepers. It was the official one of 2010 world cup
All players and coaches kept whining about it. Maradona kept whining about it. There was only one player who dominated the Jabulani and that was my fellow countryman DIEGO FORLÁN, whose freekicks should be on this video, btw, and he could hit it with both legs. 😊 Not even "glorious" Messi can do that. 😒
Kinda surprised one of Orellano's bangers from this season didn't make it! 😂
Polo, try and find the short with Ian Wright, the soccer player, when he meets his former teacher, who he thought was dead. It's touching. Cheers.
By a shear coincidence there was an article on the BBC sport web site a few days ago writing about the demise of "The Screamer." This a nickname here in the UK for the kind of goal you are featuring in your video. Apparently, the majority of goals scored in the English professional leagues currently, are from close range which is a disappointing statistic if it's true. There have always been goal "poachers" in the game. Strikers who specialise being in the right place at the right time to score goals from close range. However, that type of goal will always be an important part of the game, but for me the "screamer," hitting the top corner of the net from thirty five yards out, will always be the most exciting part of any match. Some people claim that the lack of long range shots is down to retaining possession of the ball at all costs, as a team advances on the opponents goal. Possibly, who knows, hopefully there are still a few coaches left who will encourage their strikers to "have a go," if the opportunity presents itself.
If you like screamers, you should take a look at compilations from the Brazilian leagues. Our players will shoot from anywhere! 😆
Upper 90 free kicks with zero spin so they dance in the air 🤌🤌🤌
I'd say that, if that's a true statistic, the decrease in the number of screamers, just like the rise of the cautious possession football mentality, comes down to attempting to lower the impact of chance/luck in the game and managing risk. Even though screamers are amazing to watch and some of them are mostly down to skill, power and precision the truth is the majority are very very much dependent on luck. Even in this compilation there are several goals that are obviously not intended by the scorer, or are at least very lucky to find themselves in the net. It's an unfortunate side effect of how competitive and improved every aspect of the game has become. It's why people also talk about the death of the flair player, the magician dribbling and toying with the opposition.
I think there are more screamers scored now, than in the past, as balls have become lighter, and boot technology has improved.
I also enjoy a good team goal .
I just read it last night.
There are so many variations of 'football' games, such as American Football, Rugby Football, Australian Rules Football, Canadian Rules Football , Association Football ('Soccer' is a shortening of 'association') etc.. and some will involve more kicking with the foot than others. Association Football just happens to be the version that is more centred around using the feet than the other versions.
Wow!! The collaboration everyone needed! Great reaction, Polo would love to see more! Btw 7:30 if you are into that kind of goals, Messi is the one you should look for. It's his style to dribble past multiple defenders before scoring a goal
0:16 Yes I Absoluty Agree
Fun fact. The British came up with the term Soccer as well
Sure did. It’s slang for Association Football. So calling it soccer is still calling it football.
Superb production on your video. Studio lighting .... etc. Just thought I'd say.
I like this brother, he understands the sport
"Soccer" is derived from the term "social football". So what the US calls football is the rough&tumble original version, while soccer is the refined version with stricter rules and fewer injuries.
Soccer is derived from association football
Association Football! A simple lookup at en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_football would have helped.
The length of an NFL ball is 11.25 inches, approximately a foot long, that's why it's called "foot" ball, which is fair enough!
Wrong.
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Back in the late 1800's/early 1900's, very few Americans had even heard of European Football. The first time we became aware of it on a large scale was when a bunch of us went over to Europe in WW1.
American Football was already a thing by then so we called it by the slang term The British used for it at the time, "Soccer," to avoid confusion.
If you like you could learn about the split of Rugby and Association Football in the early to mid 1800´s in Britain. It explains why the Americans call their game football. But you´re right. It confuses less when you call it soccer. Even if you don´t play the game with the feet. Sorry for my bad english.
It existed. Some teams in Pennsylvania still around today can trace their roots back to then.
I love that you love the beautiful game. I think America will embrace football one day, and the world will tremble
As an old fart I will say that one of the reasons for so many 'recent' goals here - apart from the fact that every game now is filmed from 20 different angles - is that the technology has improved so much over time. Better boots, lighter footballs which are basically designed to fly, and of course the players are fitter, stronger and better trained than ever before.
Great selection of goals here, but the video could easily have been 2 hours long. I especially love seeing amazing goals like these from the lower leagues where you might not expect that kind of quality.
There are lots of older long shot goals too. It’s just recency bias by the compiler of the video.
@@patinho5589 You're quite right, but nobody was bending / dipping a free kick 23° around a wall in 1950 when the ball was like a sack of potatoes and so were the boots. I say that as someone whose Al Bundy moment was scoring direct from a corner against our rival school team in ~1978. The fact that the goalkeeper was about 4'6" had nothing to do with it.
Side note - once I learned how to curl a ball, I somehow completely lost forever the ability to kick a ball straight again.
Modern goalkeepers position themselves much higher on the pitch nowadays to help their team in possession. All of the super-long range goals in this video come from the goalie being way off his line. (Except the last couple where the goalie thought the defenders would deal with the ball and it bounced over him instead.)
Zach Thornton, goalie, won the distance competition at the soccer all star games more than once. When asked about it, he said he had a "big butt" and that made all the difference. Think that las Tim Howard goal.
u know the guy in the pink was the other team's goalie that made that shot towards the end- not sure you noticed
The fact that lorto showed up somany times 😂 most off them soffer the goal, but still 😂😂 they were on the video a lot! 😂
3:32 they’re called “top bins” 😁
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American football should be called American Rugby and Soccer simply football. This would make a lot more sense for everyone.
Just an FYI since someone from the UK informed the term "Soccer" was created in England and we Americans adopted the term for the sport here
A handful of of countries call it soccer as well. They call it soccer in a lot of Australia and some parts of Ireland.
I was playing one of my last G14 games in the midfield, and this guy from the other team tackled me really badly, and I didn't get a freekick. I was so pissed off. Seconds later the ball ended up at my feet at a half-bounce, and I just blasted it with everything I got -didn't even try aiming for the goal, just wanted to kick it away in anger, got a perfect hit somehow, and it curved like nothing I've ever seen. A good goalkeeper would have saved, but it went in from about the halfway mark. Incredible feeling, even if it was pure luck.
You call it Football because American Football is a variation of Rugby. Which was called Rugby Football when it was first brought to America universities from the UK. Rugby is still called Rugby Football today.
I've never in my life saw anybody in Europe call it Rugby Football, unless you mean in the states.
When you say it looks like he kicked the ball another way, football players are well aware of the spin effects on a ball and the turn it’s gonna make. So it was intended
Soccer is called football in Europe because they kick the ball they always use the ball with their even though America call it soccer it’s called football
I've never understood why it's called a touchdown in American Football, because you don't have to touch it down
The same reason why its called football in the first place, when they dont use their feet for 99% or the match.
The original laws of the game required that the ball carrier ground the ball ("touch the ball down"), as is the case in rugby today. The game evolved, but the vernacular remained.
As for the name of the game, it is simply one of many codes of football - association, gridiron, Aussie Rules, Rugby, Gaelic, etc - that exist today.
As for the infrequent use of feet in the American game, that is another example of the game evolving without changes in vocabulary.
The original game contained elements of association, rugby, and Gaelic football. Kicking was once the principle means of advancing the ball. Today, kicking is obviously a less prominent (yet still critical) feature of the game.
Association football is my first sporting passion (Celtic FC for life). However, being American, I love our game as well. And yes, amongst other Americans, I do say "soccer". If you don't like it, blame the English. They invented the word.
@@kentgrady9226 why would i Blame the English when the Americans Changed the sport and didnt brother with the name?
Knuckle balls are the worst. People don't understand how hard it is to track the ones coming at you.
A lot in this video were indeed Hail Mary shots. The one with the keeper are those instances where the ball is picked up by the wind and gets really high before plummeting like a rock maintaining all its momentum and speed. That's the trick of these attempts is to get the height in. In modern days with such light balls its a bit easier but you risk the ball swirling too much and when picked up by the wind its out of control.
7:38 watch Messi bruh.. you gonnna love him
Absolutely insane they didn’t include Ibrahimovićs bicycle kick from deep on here. That was one of the best ever
5:20 this guy is the king of free kicks, during 8 seasons at one of his clubs (Lyon) he scored 100 goals as a attacking midfielder. 44 of those were free kicks from, no joke, any angle on the field.
Juninho Pernambucano currently still holds the record for most free kicks and he stopped playing 10 years ago.
To answer your question "what does it feel like to let in a goal like that", well goalkeepers will always be gutted whenever they let a goal in, but in most of these cases in the video it doesnt matter how good or bad the goalkeeper is or does, some shots are simply just unstoppable. When theyre hit with such power and theyre so far into the corner its literally impossible for a keeper to save it. It doesnt happen often though, in a full season in the premier lesgue you might be lucky if you see 5-6, which isnt alot considering theres 20 teams that all play 38 games a season. 😮
6:07 it just feels like your powerless. Some shots are just so perfect you just can’t stop them. It sucks but you’re secretly impressed cause goals like that one are just sublime
Last goals from 90+ m with big bounces like in the video are mainly due to wind, you can see trashes flying around the goalkeeper when he kicks on the ball.
A world class goalie nearly can’t be beat by long shots past 40 meters. Neuer did get one over 60m at Schalke but that was the result of him kicking the ball out and a direct volley not leaving him time to get back. Since then that has never happened again…
American football is called that because when it was first created, goals could only be scored with the feet, shooting over the bar. The rules have evolved since then.
Football isn't named football because you kick the ball with your feet. It's called football because you play it on foot. When the name came to be used, in the late middle ages, the word football was used to distinguish it from sports, by nobility, "played" on horseback, like fox-hunting or boar-hunting. In the first football games there was a ball, but it wasn't really kicked but carried. Goals were often miles apart and teams were made up of whole neighborhoods. And games often got very violent. These days there are still games played known as folk football.
3:39 Is that ehat I heard?? Man, he's probably the most accurate passer football has ever seen. There's a reason why we call him German Sniper. He really stands up for his name.. KROOS.
the shot @14:00 the ball is kicked in such a way(probably not even on purpose) that the long airtime just makes it keep spinning faster and faster, when it hits the ground and bounces it literally leaps like 5 feet
The 82 Meter Goal was in my town Paderborn (I live there) and I was in the Stadium that day, it was so impressive
The English actually called it "soccer" first.
There were multiple types of football. Mainly rugby football and association football("soccer" for short).
As association football became the clearly dominant form of football, it ended up being called just "football". The Americans stuck with "soccer" and since they had their own type of football that was way more dominant than association football, they called their version football.
They should have included George Best's goal against England, when he kicked the ball over the goalie's head. The goal was legitimate, but the referee disallowed it.
Pele called George Best the best football player in the world. There's a video here of him dribbling the ball expertly.
Matter of fact, that's something you should watch, if you have time: amazing dribbling skills in football.
I saw both of them play live. Sadly, neither in their prime, but still great memories.
Pele in the US when he was with the Cosmos.
George Best in England, later in his career when he was with Fulham.
Had Madden on the Sega Mega Drive (Genesis in the US) when I lived in the UK, only one of us had a clue about American Football and he'd consistently whoop our arse. It's just how it goes bud
That " thats to far 4 Ronaldo" is iconic
The roofe goal is unreal beats 3 players in a swimming pool looks up and bang what a goal
It’s called football because the ball used is measured at 1 foot (12 inches) also, we aren’t the only ones to call it soccer, Australia and Ireland are the other main 2 to call it Soccer
There‘s one of the first long shot goals missing from Klaus Augenthaler that scored a banger for Bayern Munich against Eintracht Frankfurt
Another one is Bernd Schuster for Bayer Leverkusen
Its the biggest Game in the world! Its Football! ⚽️⚽️⚽️
the last 2 were in a game with a heavy wind from behind, and most keepers are embarrassed for the other keeper in those situations.
Is anyone else mesmerised by that thing in the background 😂
A Goaly and Player knows for sure: There are ungetable Shots.
You can´t get em all, but you can try to get em all^^
Anyone else just sat here waiting for Roberto Carlos?
That intro made me think you'd be a great addition to Europe.
Goalkeepers often advance towards the edge of the penalty area, and have been embarrassed many times with a long range shot sailing over their heads into goal.
@@kimbirch1202 At the same time goalkeepers get ridiculed, if they cant intercept a long pass, becsuse they stayed in the 5 mtr box. They have to play Last Man now also. Its never good haha
American Football is called football because it is part of the Football Family tree. Very early American Football was more like Football/Soccer than American Football. The first recognized Football game was played with mostly Football/Soccer FA rules. The introduction of Rugby rules in the 1870s gave it the likeness to Rugby that we can clearly see today. Finally, the introduction of unique rules by Walter Camp made American Football is own distinct sport. The name Football stuck because back then the only distinction people made was what rules were in play. It was Football Association Rules for Football/Soccer, Rugby Football Union Rules for Rugby, Intercollegiate Football Association Rules for American Football, etc. Clear distinction evolved later.
they should have really started with goals from the corner position haha you would have some nice Roberto Carlos ones!
Actually the name Soccer came from the English themselves - the inventors of the game:
The game was originally called football, coz you played the ball with your foot. Then, in the town of rugby, someone got frustrated and picked up the ball and ran with it and this new variation of the game stuck. It eventually became known as “Rugby football” but at first they just called it football too.
Because of that, to avoid the confusion, the creators of the original football decided to differentiate it from the one played in rugby so they created an association to lay down the rules of the game; which is why it was renamed “association football”. This was slanged to “assoc”, then slanged again to “soccer”.
Meanwhile, “rugby” football became known as just “rugby”, so soccer slowly got its original football name back. But not before a whole bunch of English immigrants went to the US, where they were still calling it soccer.
It’s also the reason why American football is called football:
Those English immigrants to the US were still calling rugby, “rugby football”. And as the game slowly evolved from rugby to what it is now, it no longer needed to be called “rugby” football - just football.
Blame the English for everything! 😂
I think "soccer" came back to the UK via the French. It was an English university thing: they liked to play with words so that rugby football became "rugger" and association football became "soccer" (and later "footy").
Both games were football though.
So yeah - American Football, or "Gridiron", is a variation of Rugby Football.
@@Paulorr3 soccer is just short for association football. If youre not playing for an association like a club then youre just playing football. Calling the whole sport soccer is silly, like calling american football just 'nfl'
I'm English and this is by far the worst thing we've ever done.
No, you played football ON FOOT, as opposed to horseback.
They still call it football.
Football is called the beautiful game you know
I was at the game where the one shot that went across the floor was scored, and my seat is right behind the shot. It was a goal as soon as it left Thiago's boot. I still don't understand how it accelerated *after* bouncing, though.
You really have to respect the talent of the players at the top tier. One of the things that really amazes me is that it's estimated that over 200 million people play "soccer" around the world, and these guys are the best. Compare that to the NFL (American Football) where about 5 million people play. Would Tom Brady still be considered the best QB in the world rising above a 200 million plus talent pool? Not knocking him, or any other NFL star, but it kind of puts it in perspective.
Also, I think Pat Jennings was the first goalie to ever score a goal in an international match.
If you want to see pure skill, look up Dennis Bergkamp. Je had zich a great talent and his way of football was pure art
The goal at 7.15 was in Brazil. I don't there was an English commentator in the original soundtrack. Who created the video probably replaced the Brazilian commentator by that English commentary
The ones where the ball bounced over the goalkeeper always make him look bad as he could have just taken some steps back and caught the ball. But on the other side,if there are players close to where the ball bounces he wants to be a bit closer to them to challenge them when they take the ball so he needes to find a way of somewhat covering both possibilities and those goals happen when the keeper commits too much towards covering for other players taking the ball.
You need to see the Nayim goal against Arsenal and Ryan Giggs solo goal vs Arsenal. 2 of the best goals ever
This is week ooooh yess , you dont see everething 😂❤
I recommend reacting to legendary goalkeeper saves.
All goals here are poems really and i'm certain there are more missing this list. Low shots are the most skilled and powerfull by far for me because the high ones are always in advantage against keepers.
There are 2 crucial factors on a high long range shot to consider when you judge the keeper's level of responsibility.
1) The high long shots usually come from above (dah) and things like stadium lights/sun/night darkness (depending the hour they play and highest point of the shot) can potentially hinder the view of the keeper.
2) Ball gets accelaration when goes downwards in weird ways so if you can't see the starting speed from side potition and it comes in straight line, kinetic vision from certain pov can't help you much.
Also i can't really talk about potitioning since the keeper's away potition most of the times is a standard on how high the defensive line can go to help keep lines close from tactical prespectives.
the fact there isn't that payet freekick goal, cisse's goal vs chelsea and cahlanoglu's goal vs Leverkusen 😢
I remember the Man U Goalkeeper, David Seaman, scoring from a goal kick! Magical!!👏🌟✌️
David Seaman was not a Man u goalie 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
you like the man from atlanta who identified as a 35yr old white man
greetings from brazil
At last an American who gets it, the clue is in the name, football, you play it with your feet 👍👍😀
You get a like just for the first sentence already!
Its easier nowadays with a modern football, it also curves a lot more, back in the 70's the ball was heavier and less air dynamic and the pitches in the UK were sometimes like mud if it had been raining. Prior to that was the lace up ball. If it got wet it was like a medicine ball. Heading the damned thing was like getting a punch on your head.
Harry Kane has scored not one but two from his own half in this compilation.
Jhon Duran (yes, that's the correct spelling) hit a goal for Aston Villa against Everton with weekend that will be on future compilations like this.
A 32 yard blast that curled away from the goalkeeper into the top corner. It was much prettier than Bellingham's goal in this video.
POLO should react to a Juninho free kick compilation. He's truly the greatest free kick taker of all time. His mastery of every technique is amazing.
I saw that Duran goal, best one of the season so far, just beautiful. He is a player!
I'm a Toffee and our players being on the same pitch when that happened is the best thing we've done this season.
@@16ozClawHammer I hope Everton starts getting some better results. I don't want them relegated.
@@MrVvulf Thank you, mate. Though the prognosis is not good. I'd rather not think about it. Agree with you on the Juninho (Pernambucano) front. Incredible free kick taker and vastly underrated. 'Our' Juninho was Paulista, the little fella. Middlesbrough stalwart and exceptional in his own right. Both amazing players.
Of course the villa fan picks the Bellingham goal out of all of them to put down 😂 one was in the El Classico and one was against Everton.
Don't apologise for calling it soccer, here in the UK we called it soccer and then changed it to football. It was originally called Association Football and we abbreviated the word Association to Soccer. I think it was sometime around the 1940/50's we then dropped the word soccer and called it football instead. America just didn't change it because by then you already had another game called football, which makes sense.
I'd guess you call your game football because maybe it derived from Rugby in some way, which was called Rugby Football back in the day. That name just got abbreviated to Rugby.
I never understand why some of my fellow Englishman/other areas of the UK get so annoyed at the word soccer considering that's the original name we gave it.