Over the years and as I grew up watching FIFA World Cup matches, I realized that there are some players who are head and shoulders above others in that particular WC or in a particular team.
These are the marquee players who in a moment of sheer magic and brilliance can singlehandedly change the course of an ongoing match and the resulting outcome. These are players who makes fans go wild with agony or ecstasy, leaves the biggest impact and thus makes the beautiful game so delightfully beautiful.
These are players who are also Gods chosen and blessed ones and to their innumerable fans are the no less than Gods themselves...they are the gods of the game !!!
Interestingly, these players are the ones who makes the all important goals too and in manners which may not be there in the game rule book and these goals come to be known as God's Goal...Let me take you through some of the most famous God's Own Goals,,,
At the top of the list will be Maradona's "Hand of God" Goal Against England in the 1986 World Cup
The second one is also accredited to the irrepressible Maradona who mesmerized the world with the second goal in the same match. For me those dancing and dribbling feet were of God ...So "Feet of God" goal is my No 2... i personally believe this is the greatest goal ever in the history of FIFA World Cup wherein Maradona starts from the midfield and one after another dribbles past seven English players enroute to scoring the most beautiful goal ever and lifts the beautiful game to another level
From 1986 till 2014 there were lesser 'God Goals' until yesterday June 24th 2014 ... in a do or die of a match between Italy and Uruguay to qualify for the next round (Round of 16) at the FIFA 2014, God played his part again in ensuring that a goal happens to break the deadlock. Diego Godin, the hitherto quiet captain of Uruguay, came to the WC party and 'shouldered' a goal from a Uruguayan corner and ensured that the first ever world champs of the FIFA Cup gets another crack at the title to be champs again at the cost of 4-times FIFA Champs, Italy, who really would not have been a deserving team to advance at the expense of Uruguay. This sublime moment wherein the most elusive goal by Godin made him the God of Uruguay (even if for a day) and the ubiquitous shoulder push is what I would like to call the "Shoulder of God" goal
FIFA 2014 is reaching feverish peak now. We soon would be seeing teams getting knocked out either by a superior opponent or by a moment of sheer magic of a football maestro or by God himself who too, it seems, cannot resist a piece of action of the beautiful game ... so who are we to complain... we are only mortals still !!!
These are the marquee players who in a moment of sheer magic and brilliance can singlehandedly change the course of an ongoing match and the resulting outcome. These are players who makes fans go wild with agony or ecstasy, leaves the biggest impact and thus makes the beautiful game so delightfully beautiful.
These are players who are also Gods chosen and blessed ones and to their innumerable fans are the no less than Gods themselves...they are the gods of the game !!!
Interestingly, these players are the ones who makes the all important goals too and in manners which may not be there in the game rule book and these goals come to be known as God's Goal...Let me take you through some of the most famous God's Own Goals,,,
At the top of the list will be Maradona's "Hand of God" Goal Against England in the 1986 World Cup
The second one is also accredited to the irrepressible Maradona who mesmerized the world with the second goal in the same match. For me those dancing and dribbling feet were of God ...So "Feet of God" goal is my No 2... i personally believe this is the greatest goal ever in the history of FIFA World Cup wherein Maradona starts from the midfield and one after another dribbles past seven English players enroute to scoring the most beautiful goal ever and lifts the beautiful game to another level
From 1986 till 2014 there were lesser 'God Goals' until yesterday June 24th 2014 ... in a do or die of a match between Italy and Uruguay to qualify for the next round (Round of 16) at the FIFA 2014, God played his part again in ensuring that a goal happens to break the deadlock. Diego Godin, the hitherto quiet captain of Uruguay, came to the WC party and 'shouldered' a goal from a Uruguayan corner and ensured that the first ever world champs of the FIFA Cup gets another crack at the title to be champs again at the cost of 4-times FIFA Champs, Italy, who really would not have been a deserving team to advance at the expense of Uruguay. This sublime moment wherein the most elusive goal by Godin made him the God of Uruguay (even if for a day) and the ubiquitous shoulder push is what I would like to call the "Shoulder of God" goal
FIFA 2014 is reaching feverish peak now. We soon would be seeing teams getting knocked out either by a superior opponent or by a moment of sheer magic of a football maestro or by God himself who too, it seems, cannot resist a piece of action of the beautiful game ... so who are we to complain... we are only mortals still !!!
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