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Micky van de Ven

clownfoot said:
Said it in the OMT but there isn’t another CB in world football who can do that
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Incredible goal. We now need to double down efforts to reward him with an incredible contract. He deserves nothing less and would have the World’s best falling over themselves to sign him if they had half a chance. We are lucky to have him, now let’s do all we can to keep him happy.
 
Crank up the sound and listen to the crowd noise grow with excitement, and explode when he scores. Beautiful.
When a footballer scores a wonder goal and a team-mate raises both hands to their head in disbelief, it’s normally done after the goal. Udogie did it when his fellow Tottenham Hotspur defender Micky van de Ven was still 40 yards from his target and with the goalkeeper still to beat against Copenhagen in the Champions League.

Yes, the Dutch international defender did something absolutely incredible on Tuesday night. And possibly unprecedented.

It’s easy to recall a solo goal being scored in that manner. Heck, Tottenham’s South Korean international Son Heung-min — now with Los Angeles FC — scored an eerily similar goal in the same stadium, from the same side of the pitch to the other, against Burnley a few years ago, That stunning solo goal in 2019 won the Puskas Award, given by FIFA, world football’s governing body, to the scorer of the best goal of the year.

It’s also easy to recall special goals being scored by centre-backs. In English football, Vincent Kompany’s long-range beauty for Emirates Marketing Project against Leicester City, Phil Jagielka’s thunderbolt for Everton in the Merseyside derby at Anfield, and Philippe Albert’s exquisite dink over Peter Schmeichel for Saudi Sportswashing Machine in the mid-1990s all spring to mind.

But a solo goal being scored by a centre-back? One that involved beating four players with an electric combination of pace, power, control, strength, brute force, elegance and a finish to match, having run from one penalty area to the other in the space of 10 utterly unforgettable seconds?

Nope. No way.
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www.nytimes.com

Micky van de Ven and a goal like no other: ‘It was Messi transformed into a centre-back’

A centre-back beating four defenders, running 80 yards and finishing superbly... this was an unprecedented goal
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