Soccer Taunt Backfires on Goalie (Video)
Taunting. In American football, it is addressed by a penalty and sometimes a fine. In soccer it varies. As this video makes clear, not all taunts are created equal, however. Taunts can work in two ways, either the person taunting the opposing team backs it up, or he doesn't. And then of course there's the reaction. Sometimes you get punched, or sometimes this can happen.
In the case of this soccer goalie, he clearly drops the ball on backing up the taunt. The shooter, however, throws it back in his face with a great taunt of his own. Let's set the stage. The place is the 2009 America East Men's Soccer Championship Semifinal. The teams are Stony Brook and Hartford. The game has come down to a shootout.
The shootout is tied 1-1 when the shooter for Stony Brook steps up to take his shot. If you fast forward to about 20 seconds in, the Hartford goalie, instead of doing normal warm-ups, begins to do cartwheels back and forth in the goal. Perhaps it was not meant as a taunt, but it surely was taken as such by the Stony Brook player. An all-out soccer brawl wouldn't have surprised me at that point. Of course the goalie blows it and the goal goes in, and that is when the real fun starts.
After not backing up his taunting, the goalie becomes subject to the shooter mocking his cartwheels. As the goalie tries to walk away, the shooter follows him around mimicking the cartwheels the goalie had done. That's got to be pretty embarrassing. The moral of the story? Don't taunt someone when you can't back it up. Oh and another moral: definitely taunt a person who taunted you if you get the better of them. It is hilarious and emotionally satisfying I'm sure.
Here is the full Video of the Shootout
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I remember this player a few years back his name was Carlo. If he was shooting for Hartford he would have scored for sure.
Time to hit it up JD lets go!
Im in
Soccer goalies rarely save penalties. Penalty takers are EXPECTED to score, and if they don’t they are blamed. But if a goalie fails to save a penalty, he/she is not blamed because it is simply that difficult to do so. All the pressure is on the penalty-taker, not the goalie.
Knowing this, the goalie did his best to mentally distract the penalty-taker, hoping it would either make him miss or take a poor shot that he could save.
so actually, how about a WIN for the goalie having the balls to look like a complete idiot knowing he had little chance of backing up his taunt, but doing it anyways in hopes of getting a lucky break for his team.
You sound really smart.
what an idiot, this should teach the goalie a lesson.
Hilarious … the taunted doing the taunting… I hope i would have the reaction time to do that !
so what… the shooter that taunted the goalie ended up losing anyway.
Uh, no, Stony Brook won.
Soccer, always finding new ways to be gay.
buddy, football players slap each other on the butt after a good play and that is not gay, hockey players even kiss each other on the cheek after some goals and that’s not gay. Make sure you realize that you are trash talking the most ungay sport in the world. So keep your moronic comments to yourself
cept soccer is a bunch of bitches wearing short shorts and tall socks running around. In american football you kick the other guy’s ass. Anyone can play soccer, they probably won’t be good but only a few select people can last more than 4 plays in football.
Typical Americans.. totally misunderstood how you distract the penalty kicker.. You guys fail at football
If you retards want to see how this is supposed to be done check out Jerzy Dudek or search for Dudek Dance.
Btw: Rename American Football to American Handball please. The pussies even wear protection pads and helmets LOL wtf.. faggot americunts..
Yeah, since soccer is so hard core. I mean, we don’t play any games that could possibly be as physical, or as dangerous as Soccer. I mean running around kicking a ball for 2 hours seem like srs business.
“Best” you are the biggest CUNT…American Football is a variation of Rugby Football you dumb shit which is a variation of Football developed at Rugby School in the UK, but instead of passing backwards you pass forwards and instead of holding players you can push them, you can still put your foot to the ball at any point in the game.
The weakest NFL player would kick the ass of the strongest football ’soccer’ team. They wear pads and helmets so they can hit harder and not kill each other, soccer players wear shin pads so that they can dive to the ground and roll around like complete retards until a yellow card is shown so that they can stop crying.
Btw: Rename American Football to AMERICAN FOOTBALL IS FAR BETTER THEN ANY OTHER “Variation of” FOOTBALL.
No one in this video is American. I think you misread, you worthless down syndrome afflicted child. I hope your father dies of cancer. I can guarantee you he will, and tears will be streaming down your little baby face. Sissy.
@Best
Hey man lay off the American faggot stuff.
Some American’s love soccer (like myself) and have been playing for many years.
@Naka
*Cough*FOOTBALL*Cough*
@naka
Good for you. And you’re not alone. Despite the reputations of baseball (”America’s past time”), football and basketball, the most popular participatory sport in America is actually soccer. So much so that we have the term, “soccer mom.”.
So yeah, lazy couch potatoes may give those first three sports top ratings, but true athletes go for soccer.
ps – soccer players are also better loking than players in the other sports…
…and here we see that Yanks know nothing about football. The keeper did the right thing. Penalty takers are expected to score, thus the keeper should do everything to try to put them off. It was always more likely to be a goal than to be saved, but kudos to the keeper for at least being ballsy enough to try to really put the taker off.
Now put on some big pads and go back to playing your boring girlie games that no one else in the world gives a rat’s ass about.
It’s fucking college dude…and not good college ball either. i can make a gross overstatement too, every body that lives in the UK has bad teeth.
Its hilarious how you non-Americans are so threatened by US that you can’t even laugh at an OBVIOUSLY hilarious clip.
Let down your guard, it will be okay. We are not making fun of your sport, but merely finding it funny that the scorer mocks the keeper with the same gay dance that was meant to distract him.
Its okay that you are self-conscious about your sport not being ‘physical enough’, but leave that between yourselves and just laugh at the F*ing clip!
GET it?
Watching the FULL video instead of the clip, reveals the goalie was warming up. OP is a RETARD!
You love what? What is this soccer thing you keep talking about?
Half of those penalties were illegal. The goalkeeper cannot move forward from his line before the ball is struck – that was how both goalkeepers made their saves, by coming forward and narrowing the angle. What a disgrace.
how do i get my two minutes back?
The video is fine, somewhat amusing. The article with the video is clueless, completely clueless. The people in the comments yelling about american football being the best – explain why nobody else watches it in the world besides the US.
There is only one reason why soccer is not popular in the US, and sports like basketball, football and baseball are. You cannot plug a commercial in every 2-3minutes in soccer, so there is no point for corporate america to brainwash people into loving the sport.
Why does the “how come soccer isn’t popular in america” discussion have to be so personal all the time? Soccer is a fine sport, and so is American football. They are different and both are cool in different ways.
That being said, soccer is lame as hell. Hahaha.
I think it was a good try to distract the kicker it is all he could really do