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If you haven't seen Red Bulls goalkeeper Danny Cepero's amazing 80-yard free kick goal from tonight's 3-1 win against Columbus (the first goal ever scored in MLS history by a goalkeeper), fear not. Here is the video, courtesy of MLSNet.com:
WOW.
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starting goalie caught with performance enhancing drugs = 10 game ban
the back-up Danny Cepero scoring the first MLS goal in History (from a goalie)....Priceless
Posted by: michael | October 18, 2008 at 11:44 PM
lmao... great goal - weird/funny reaction in the stands lol...
Posted by: Richard | October 18, 2008 at 11:48 PM
A- That's always fun.
B- Welcome to turf!
Posted by: Jacob A. | October 18, 2008 at 11:49 PM
C- Who made one on a pk and when?
Posted by: Jacob A. | October 18, 2008 at 11:53 PM
Matt Reis made a PK I think in the playoffs
Posted by: Dannyc58 | October 19, 2008 at 12:07 AM
Someone should test him for preformance enhancing drugs....lol
Posted by: Kevin Johnson | October 19, 2008 at 12:09 AM
Reis' PK came in the '04 ECC shootout, which is different from scoring one in regulation.
Posted by: Roehl | October 19, 2008 at 12:40 AM
With that type of offensive production from the goalkeeper, a championship is all but assured. He's a regular Chilavert...
Posted by: Mark | October 19, 2008 at 12:49 AM
Careful Ives. cant have everybody seeing this NFL may want him and as we all know Money talks lol
Posted by: kawa | October 19, 2008 at 12:57 AM
Damn... I'm out of it a little while and everyone's getting delusions of grandeur!
Question: how did Cepero look the rest of the match?
Posted by: Tom B. | October 19, 2008 at 01:15 AM
Having been there as it happened, I cannot explain how great Cepero's goal was live. That should def. be goal of the week, and it couldn't have happened to a better guy. That's a memorable debut and I am proud this guy made the most of it.
Posted by: Shawn Smith | October 19, 2008 at 01:30 AM
That goal was less amazing than embarrassing for Columbus Crew goalkeeper Andy Gruenebaum. (Why wasn't Will Hesmer playing?)
Posted by: Brokenbil | October 19, 2008 at 01:34 AM
i wouldn't exactly call this an "amazing" goal. more of a fluke goal.
Posted by: patrick | October 19, 2008 at 01:36 AM
aaand the haters come out to play. To be fair, gruenbaum is hapless. He was in goal in that destruction of columbus last season.
Posted by: Sublicon | October 19, 2008 at 02:31 AM
This had to be a happy accident right? He didn't actually think, "eh, I'll bounce it over his head!"
Posted by: Joze | October 19, 2008 at 02:50 AM
Joze - he said after the game that he was merely aiming toward the other goal and actually didn't realize he scored until his own team told him; Cepero thought it deflected off someone.
Posted by: Shawn Smith | October 19, 2008 at 02:58 AM
Also, this was #2 on Sportscenter's Top 10 plays! Nice work Danny!
Posted by: Shawn Smith | October 19, 2008 at 03:27 AM
#2 on sportscenter top 10?
wtf? you wait like 12 years to make history, and when it happens, you only get number two on sportscenter.
o lawd.
Posted by: nelson | October 19, 2008 at 03:48 AM
Does the turf get an assist on that in the official scoring?
Posted by: Rudy | October 19, 2008 at 03:49 AM
Rudy - that was my thinking, too...
When you play on a ping pong table, the table oughta get some occasional credit...
Posted by: Brant | October 19, 2008 at 05:59 AM
FWIW - Here's a goalie who scored his long-bomb shot during the run of play: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XuUXW_kUIRI
Posted by: Brant | October 19, 2008 at 07:03 AM
Always good to see Star Wars quotes on a soccer blog.
Posted by: guillermo | October 19, 2008 at 07:30 AM
and don't forget he had two wicked good saves before the end of the first half.
no cichero = red bull win
angel is god
cepero is unreal
Posted by: mike from linden | October 19, 2008 at 08:50 AM
And the #1 play on Every Stinking Pitch Network was what, a routine fly ball?
Posted by: KingSnake | October 19, 2008 at 09:15 AM
excellent
Posted by: chicagosoccerguy | October 19, 2008 at 09:24 AM
A bit of a case of the hyperboles here Ives....flukey goal againsta keeper unaccustomed to turf. Still an interesting talking point and shame he didn't get the shut out that woudl have been a helluva trifecta....Win, shutout, goal on his debut...instead, I'm sure he'll take win, greta game, goal....
(In hockey, down here there wa a rookie GK who scored, shutout and won on his debut...Mike Smith...I think he plays for TB or Florida now in the NHl and was in the Dallas system for years).
Still...all entertaining enough.
For me, it was just another way to turn the knife of Toronto's season....add int he KC injury time winner....and our day sure took a turn for the worse....
Posted by: Aljarov | October 19, 2008 at 09:51 AM
Dannyc58 - Matt Reis scored a PK, but it was during a shootout and thus not an official goal.
Posted by: Eric | October 19, 2008 at 11:58 AM
Even on a nice, relaxing fall Sunday the blog posters are still chugging their haterade.
A fluke goal can still be referred to as amazing. You see, amazing is an adjective. And last I checked, people commenting on a soccer blog aren't in charge of how the word can be used. I don't think anyone is dumb enough to say it wasn't a fluke. But it came form a keeper, during the run of play, for the first time EVER in this league. I think it can be safely called an amazing fluke without the grumpy peanut gallery lecturing on how to describe it.
Plenty of keepers have scored in shootouts over the years guys. I think Meola did it first in '96 though I could be wrong. But seeing as how none of them were actual goals, it is technically okay to call this the first goalkeeper goal in league history, as it's the only one that counts.
Posted by: MetroBull | October 19, 2008 at 01:59 PM
haha that reminds me when paul robinson scored on an offsides kick from like 85 yards last year for tottenham
Posted by: Chris | October 19, 2008 at 08:14 PM
I'm a "hater" 'cause I didn't think the goal was "amazing?" Wow, sorry to offend so many delicate sensibilities. If the goal was amazing to you, great, glad you enjoyed it. I'd just hate to be the opposing keeper, that's all.
By the way, no one answered why Hesmer wasn't playing. Did Sigi figure it was good time to rest some starters since the Crew have already made the playoffs?
Posted by: Brokenbil | October 19, 2008 at 08:33 PM
I was one of the fans who questioned the playing of cepero, and thought Boss would have been a better pick. I stand corrected! Hopefully cepero can make the next 9 games of the suspension that we all say "Conway who?"
Posted by: OgreDave | October 19, 2008 at 11:10 PM
Awesome goal by Danny Cepero, too bad those football lines are showing....can't wait for Red Bull arena.
Posted by: Sandro | October 20, 2008 at 08:58 AM