Gol olimpico |
Corners leading to goals is a part of everyday football. But Cris Freddi looks at the rare occasions when a corner goes straight in It’s known as a gol olimpico in Argentina. The first corner to go straight in during an international match was probably the one taken by Cesareo Onzari against Argentina’s rivals and Olympic champions Uruguay in 1924. It beat a goalkeeper as good as Andres Mazali, and others found their way past Lev Yashin, Peter Shilton and Vitor Baia – which should make David Seaman feel a bit better. Mind you, he seems to have been the only man to let in two such goals in internationals. The Macedonia shocker we know about, but against Czechoslovakia ten years earlier he let Jozef Chovanec’s low corner go in off his foot. You can’t always blame the keeper. Chovanec scored because Tony Dorigo missed it, and Yashin let in a corner against Colombia in the 1962 World Cup because defender Givi Chokeli ushered it in, to the great man’s comic indignation. From WSC 193 March 2003. What was happening this month
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