Woman among the candidates for FIFA Puskas Award

UglyBolloxFace

http://www.fifa.com/ballondor/puskasaward/video=1544522/index.html

Heather O'Reilly, along with Neymar et al, has been nominated for the FIFA Puskas Award ("An award used in order to award the player, male or female, judged to have scored the most aesthetically significant and "most beautiful" goal of the year" - Wikipedia).

This is great news. It will be interesting to see how far she makes it.

GLaDOS

Great strike, but the play by the defenders in general was shocking!

G.K.

Stankovic undoubtedly

dsmythy

Rooney for me. Just ahead of Ibrahimovic.

Chucky the tree

Neymar is the best for me.

Mars Bar

Video won't work for me.

Makes me happy just knowing there is a female in there!

tommyhaas

Surprised Rooney's nominated. It looks a great goal, but it came off his shin, he hardly meant that

tommyhaas

When I glanced at the thumbnail links, I thought there was a few girls nominated

flahavaj

tommyhaas wrote: »

Surprised Rooney's nominated. It looks a great goal, but it came off his shin, he hardly meant that

He obviously meant to catch it with his boot but hit it with his shin instead (like an inch away). Its still a stunning goal whatever way you look at it and would be a deserving winner.

tommyhaas

flahavaj wrote: »

He obviously meant to catch it with his boot but hit it with his shin instead (like an inch away). Its still a stunning goal whatever way you look at it and would be a deserving winner.

I agree its a stunning goal, but it was only sheer luck that it didn't end up 40 yards over the bar, in that he didn't connect properly with it. As I said, it was a great goal, but I certainly wouldn't rate it as highly as some of the others

tolosenc

Stankovic.

Though, there is a shocking lack of Eric Hassli vs. Seattle on that list...

G.K.

Ross McCormack's overhead was better than the two that weren't Rooney's.

simonw

No love for dos Santos' immaculate chip? I reckon that, rooney and stankovic

tolosenc

simonw wrote: »

No love for dos Santos' immaculate chip? I reckon that, rooney and stankovic

It was great. But in fairness, Rooney's was the second if not third best bicycle kick on the list.

G.K.

The 4 long range shots were the best (Stankovic, O'Reilly, Dos Santos, Ibrahimovic), then the belgian.

CSF

No1 else thinks the inclusion of the woman's goal is a bit of a token gesture? Good strike, but not really up there on the same level with the rest.

AgileMyth

CSF wrote: »

No1 else thinks the inclusion of the woman's goal is a bit of a token gesture? Good strike, but not really up there on the same level with the rest.

There was one woman on the list last year too so yes, very much so.

daveyboy_1ie

It's Rooney's award, all the live long day.

Lovely strike by your woman though, regardless of how shocking the defender was. I doubt many keepers would have saved it, male or female.

GavRedKing

Neymar, brillant individual skill mixed with some great teamwork and passing.

Ibra 2nd, Rooney 3rd.

PHB

Neymar unreal! dos Santos better!

Overhead kicks are impressive, but that dribbling is just a sight to behold.

keano_afc

daveyboy_1ie wrote: »

It's Rooney's award, all the live long day.

Lovely strike by your woman though, regardless of how shocking the defender was. I doubt many keepers would have saved it, male or female.

Any keeper able to move his feet would have saved it.

Paparazzo

That mexican overhead was woeful. Hardly a GOTM contender, never mind goal of the year.

Neymar by a mile for me, followed by rooney.
The way neymar got around that last defender was unreal! Although, it looks like from his reputation and protection from ref's, the defenders are afraid to tackle him for fear of him diving.

keano_afc

Stankovic or the Belgian one for me.

Paparazzo

keano_afc wrote: »

Stankovic or the Belgian one for me.

Oh yeah, that belgian one was quality. Like Bergkamps one, but on the volley.

Dempsey

If anyone else scored the goal that Messi did, it wouldnt be on the list.

Gio Dos Santos, Neymar, Stankovic

Stankovic made what he did look so easy.

pickarooney

tommyhaas wrote: »

When I glanced at the thumbnail links, I thought there was a few girls nominated

My exact thoughts!

adamski8

daveyboy_1ie wrote: »

It's Rooney's award, all the live long day.

why not lopez who scored a pretty much identical goal?

1mcampo1

Should be Neymar's...

Panthro

I voted Dos Santos.
nice.

Bodhisopha

Stankovic just ahead of Neymar for me.

CSF

1) Rooney/Dos Santos (genuinely can't pick)
3) Neymar

citytillidie

Still think Berba's overhead V Liverpool was far better than Rooneys'

G.K.

Completely agree.

1mcampo1

The way i look at these things is that anyone, from the Champions League to the Sunday League, could hit a rocket of a shot that flies in top corner. (Not taking anything away from Stankovic's beaut)

But it's a different level of skill/class doing what De Cuelar? Giovanni, Lopez, Messi, Neymar, Rooney done to score

1mcampo1

1mcampo1 wrote: »

The way i look at these things is that anyone, from the Champions League to the Sunday League, could hit a rocket of a shot that flies in top corner. (Not taking anything away from Stankovic's beaut)

But it's a different level of skill/class doing what De Cuelar? Giovanni, Lopez, Messi, Neymar, Rooney done to score

Completely agree. Benjamin DE CEULAER for me definately. The flick to get it over the defender was magic

the untitled user

1mcampo1 wrote: »

The way i look at these things is that anyone, from the Champions League to the Sunday League, could hit a rocket of a shot that flies in top corner. (Not taking anything away from Stankovic's beaut)

But it's a different level of skill/class doing what De Cuelar? Giovanni, Lopez, Messi, Neymar, Rooney done to score

I just came into make the same point (although Rooney's was a fluke :P).

And while even Neymar's looks stunning, my biggest probem with voting long mazy runs like that is even a dribbler with the heaviest of touches tends to have one of those runs the odd time when it all falls into place.

I'm torn between Messi's and De Ceulaer's. Messi's displayed such composure to take it over the keeper as he did, but he had much more space to execute the flick than De Ceulaer did, whereas Cuelaer had a a grappling defender to fend off in order to execute the finish.

MagicMarker

1st Neymar
2nd Rooney
3rd Dos Santos

SlickRic

women play football?

wow.

Paparazzo

SlickRic wrote: »

women play football?

wow.

We'd all follow it a lot more closely if they wore hot pants

Minstrel27

Neymar has to win

nkay1985

CSF wrote: »

No1 else thinks the inclusion of the woman's goal is a bit of a token gesture? Good strike, but not really up there on the same level with the rest.

Absolutely agree. You'd see strikes as good as, or better than, that every second week in any top league.

I can't decide between Neymar and Stankovic for this one. The control and link up play by Neymar is unreal but the technique required to do what Stankovic did is out of this world. Coin toss for me.

RandolphEsq

Jesus the defence for the lady's goal was shocking. The defenders just jumped out of the way of the ball. Though women's football is a low standard altogether.

Galvasean

Neymar for me. I prefer the skill involved in dribbling into the box than just lashing at it.