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Andres Vasquez Scores a Goal beyond Description

By: Bob | May 8th, 2007

Just when you think you have seen it all in football and you are ready to move on to a new hobby like sitting on a couch all day drinking rum and watching soap operas, along comes something new and remarkable. The goal in the video above comes courtesy of Sweden where Andres Vasquez scored for Goteborg against Orebro (imagine nifty little umlauts above each name). Is there even a term to describe a goal struck by the heel of a back foot? My term of choice would be “lucky” but that probably isn’t the most apt description. What should we call this goal?

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V-SPOT

vasquez's is a little less than 10 times better than this but this is my personal favorite, courtesy of the boy cristiano:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=WTa...

too bad ruud was uncharacteristically wasteful
Juan

Hopefully he'll play in peru.. we need someone with his talent for the future. great goal btw
Lobo

Actually, nevermind. He IS Peruvian, he's just a Swedish resident, and that's all one needs to play for the Swedish national team. Both countrie's presses have stated how he wishes to play for their own nation. However, he has stated that he would play for Peru if he is called to do so.
Lobo

He is Peruvian, but he wanted to sell his nationality. He nationalized Swedish. However he was born in Lima, Peru. Furthermore, he did intend to make that goal, he can do rabona's quite adeptly. The Swedish media asked him to repeat his feat, and he did it quite easily. Someone else already posted this.
Los

He's Peruvian.
Cliff

He's not Peruvian, he's Swedish. He has stated he will never play for Peru. He intended to shoot, there were no players in good positions in the box.
eddie

great goal but can he do it again
ASH

I sure veron scored a gaol like this for Man u. on the pre season tour. good goal but not the best goal ever!!!!!!
Jack Osborne

Its fake...he didn't mean it...look at his eyes when he is about to do it and when he finishes...he's looking at the player's inside the box

-Jack
Nick

The goal gets a mention in The Sun, and The Offside gets quoted! Nice one Bob!
Eric

Andres Vasquez a skillful Peruvian player with a superb touch on the ball, in my opinion this is the best goal ever.
Edison Conde

But of course this guy had to be Peruvian and should be playing with the national team this year. Look out for Peru in 2010 world cup. With this guy and Raimond Manco (best sub 17 player in South America) Peru is sure to return to their glory days of Cubilas.
Bob

Eduardo - Here is a later post that shows tons of Rabona;. I'd seen passes like that before, but never a goal like that. Fun to see. Cheers
Eduardo

Bob,

This pass/shot/move is not new. Don't know how old are you or how long you been following football, but I've seen this kind of play many many times before. It known as La Rabona, like the first guy said, and this particular type of move was done many times by Claudio Borghi of Argentina.
dylan

its a semi-fluke. points for style. he was tryin a cross. he's looking in the middle. the attacker is ready for the cross. the camera man even thought he was gonna cross. Its a great goal. i'm glad he tried it. but its not what he meant
skalman

This is not luck. Andres Vasquez has the skills. He did it two more times for national tv. In a couple of years you will see this guy in a big club. Hopefully Liverpool.
fre

Vasques was asked to do it again by Swedish television and he did it, of course with no defenders around, but still:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...
Chris

David Dunn shows how not to do it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...
tmc

Of course, if homeboy could use his right foot, we might not be seeing this goal. Though maybe this trickeration was enough to distract the keeper from his impending shot, if that was even what he was trying to do (I'm far from convinced).
Martha

You see passes or crosses like that not infrequently, but rarely shots that work out quite that well.
Bob

Good find, Peter. Now that there is a name behind it I see it has been done on more than one occasion. Expect a rockin' YouTube video to come.
Peter

It is called a Rabona and that one is best I've ever seen.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R...

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