Tuesday, March 30, 2010

Best Worked Goal Celebration

I was just discussing this with some friends. The best goal celebration i've seen in recent times (non-acrobatic) was by Hull City away at Man City this season. (The acrobatic award goes to Julius Agahowa hands down). My favourite celebration of all time is Milla's 1990 World Cup celebration, and it will probably remain so.

Back to Hull City. Last season (December '08), Hull were being outplayed by Man City. Losing 4-0, their manager Phil Brown, kept them out on the pitch at halftime, and put them in a circle in front of their own fans. He kept yelling and waving his finger at his players. It didn't do them much good as they were defeated 5-1.














This season they went back to Manchester (November '09). This time it was 1-0 to Man City, and Hull were awarded a penalty in the 80 something minute. Jimmy Bullard stepped up and converted. After scoring in front of their own fans, the Hull City players went into a circle, and Bullard the goalscorer kept going around pointing fingers at the rest of the players. This has to be one of the best worked celebrations in the history of sports.














Check out the reaction of the fans in the background, and the reaction of the Man City player.

While we're at it, watch this! The following has to be one of the funniest goal celebrations of all time. It certainly is the angriest. Temuri Ketsabaia!
He certainly hates McDonald's, but he despises Adidas:)



Here are a couple of other vids of nice goal celebrations.



Football Quiz

This is a quiz i created for fun on my free time. I do this sometimes with my friends. The only rule for creating the quiz is you have to create the questions on your own, and know the answers (without checking online or asking anyone). If someone is into this, let me know! I can solve your quizzes or create new ones.

Here is the quiz for you:


UCL = Champions League (all time not just since '92),    WC = World Cup

1. Which coach won the UCL with 2 different teams (as a coach)?

2. Name 2 players who scored in the final of the UCL and the final of the WC.

3. Which 2 italian strikers played each for 2 different teams in the final of the UCL?
To explain more, each one has played for 2 different teams in the final.

4. Which player won the UCL with 3 different teams?

5. Which coach won the league in 3 different european countries?

6. Which 3 players won the WC as players, and lost the WC final as coaches?

7. Which 2 players won the WC as players and coaches?

8. Which player played in 5 WC?

9. Name 2 players who won the UCL with 1 team as players, and coached another team to win it? (Hint: they won it for the same team as players, and also won it for the same team as coaches :)
For more explanation, Bobby Charlton and Rooney both won the UCL for Manchester United as players. So let's say that Sir Bobby coached Valencia to win it, and Rooney later coached Valencia to win it as well.