>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.

Look up his legs carefully... :)

I don't know hockey so much but I'll try to explain with my poor english; think a hockey player. He holds hockey bar with left hand, But he hold out his arm behind of his back to right and shoot from his right side...

It's a so so hard kick type. His change to make goal maybe 1/10.000 (if he's a good technical shooter), but he tried it and succeeded... :)