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October 26, 2009
Croatian Striker Makes Incredible Shot: While playing yesterday for Dinamo Zagreb against HNK Cibalia, Croatian striker Ilija Sivonjic made a one-in-a-million shot on a ball -- but not in a good way. He missed teammate Pedro Morales' goal-bound ball at the line, keeping it out with the back of his leg. Multilingual fun fact: In Spanish, "la peor falla de la historia de futbol Croata" means "the worst failure in the history of Croatian football."
That was ugly.
posted by dfleming at 12:58 PM on October 26, 2009
Patrick Stefan did something quite similar to that a few years ago in the N.H.L. I'd link the video, but I'm too technologically inept to link inside a thread. ;-)
posted by tommybiden at 06:21 PM on October 26, 2009
I still say the Stefan thing was because the puck hit some ice shavings in front of the net. If he'd tried to flip it in from farther out and missed, he would have been an even bigger goat.
posted by wfrazerjr at 06:37 PM on October 26, 2009
Damn ice shavings!
posted by BoKnows at 06:41 PM on October 26, 2009
Wow. That's about all I've got on that one. Ridiculous stop, if only a defender could do that on purpose. 99 times out of 100 that's a goal no matter how badly you hit it. And I'd never seen the Stefan play before, that's just outrageous.
posted by boredom_08 at 12:12 AM on October 27, 2009
I had forgotten the Stefan debacle. That wasn't a good night for Stars fans.
Give him credit, though -- after he missed the goal he made a perfect pass to the other team with no time to spare.
posted by rcade at 08:16 AM on October 27, 2009
I did something almost identical to that playing hockey a few years ago. I felt shame.