I don't mean to take anything away from soccer. Now that Toronto has a new team, and has actually finally won a game, I will probably get more interested in it, but I guess I don't really understand the nuances. In this case, he kicked it at the goal and it went into the upper corner. Other than that, he didn't seem to have done very much of anything to earn the goal.

>A goal in soccer is already an exploit by itself! With all these games ending 0-0 or 1-0, I wonder why this game is the most popular on the planet. Probably because all is needed to play is a ball...
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>>Somebody has got to explain this stuff to me. I did not grow up with soccer, so when I see something like this, I'm unsure what makes it great. He kicked it a fairly long way, but in the final analysis, all he did was take a pass and kick it at the goal. It went in.
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>>I compare this to hockey where a player shoots the puck from the blue line and it goes into the goal. I don't see that as anything particularly terrific, so I'm really not sure what makes this sort of goal in soccer different.