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Soccer is a really old, extremely popular sport. This implies that almost every variety of objective that might be scored has actually been scored, and with more and more games televised these days we get to see all sort of incredible things which might have appeared difficult simply a couple of decades ago.
Want a running scorpion kick from a cross? Olivier Giroud’s got you covered. A last-minute equalizer by a goalkeeper with an immediate reply from the center circle? Here is something from the lower leagues in Spain. Probably we will be getting more and more unreasonable objectives piped into our brains in the near future, a sort of million-monkeys-writing-Hamlet vision of the sport.
Thanks to selective virality, we can ignore all the times the typewriter got covered in poop. Unless it got REALLY covered in poop, in which case it’s funny once again.
Here is the latest unreasonable objective to come to my attention, a ridiculous trick shot from Lyngby BK’s Nicolai Geertsen:.
If you’re unable to view that video, it’s a beautifully-executed scissor kick volley which … strikes the crossbar. However it hits the crossbar so perfectly that it falls back to Geertsen for him to hit another volley. Volley the second, mercifully, prevented the crossbar, zipping past the bewildered Slagelse goalkeeper and into the back of the net. It’s a stunning, confounding objective, and it’s one I never anticipated to see.
Striking the (round) ball off the (round) crossbar in such a way that it ricochets directly back to you? Landing from the scissor kick cleanly enough that you can get back up in time to hit another volley? And hitting that one sweetly from pure reflex?
There is plenty of exceptional ability in that sequence, of course. However at every phase prowls the imp of improbability, ready to toss ability overboard and prevent the entire series. You could offer Lionel Messi a hundred attempts at this and he still probably could not pull it off. And yet it occurred! And it wasn’t even a Messi who did it!
Geertsen isn’t a household name and has actually never played a minute of worldwide football. Here he is with one of the more mind-boggling goals in soccer history.
That’s the glory of sports, truly. There are some players who can make the impossible seem like a foregone conclusion, which’s what makes them terrific. But there are numerous others who are simply sufficient to serve as a conduit for when Fortune chooses to strike in the middle of a Danish cup match. Nicolai Geertsen has actually never ever been and will never ever be the world’s best soccer gamer. But he can state that for a few seconds against poor Slagelse, he was playing the world’s finest soccer.
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