Goal by Maicon

By | June 15, 2010

This one might deserve inclusion in the series of classic goals described by Edouardo Galeano — it doesn’t really get much better than this in terms of a footballer doing the (near) impossible.

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Category: Brazil World Cup

About Laurent Dubois

I am Marcello Lotti Professor of Romance Studies and History at Duke University. A specialist on the history and culture of France and the Caribbean, notably Haiti, I am the author of Soccer Empire: The World Cup and the Future of France. I founded the Soccer Politics blog in the Fall of 2009 as part of a Duke University course called "World Cup and World Politics," whose students helped me develop the site.

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