The Olympic goal of Damián Díaz, FIFA and the Puskás Award

Damien ‘Other’ Díaz scored an Olympic goal at 54 minutes of the party that Barcelona won 4-2 to Montevideo Wanderersfor the South American Cup.

The striking goal has gone around the world, with multiple praises on social networks to the point that FIFA wonders if he is a candidate to be considered for the Premio Puskásthe best goal of the season in the world.

Worthy of the #Puskas?, FIFA asks in a post on its official social networks. The award was created in honor of the Hungarian star Ferenc Puskás.

“The FIFA Puskás Award is awarded to the footballer who is judged to have scored the most aesthetically relevant goal, regardless of the competition, the scorer’s gender or nationality; and as long as the goal was not the product of luck or an error, and that it has been characterized by its fair play ”, it is explained on the FIFA page.

Precisely the South American was the first to suggest that the goal of the Argentine-Ecuadorian deserves a Puskás nomination for this 2022.

Hello @FIFAcom. Here we have a candidate for the #Puskas”, was the post echoed by FIFA.

The goal in the South American

When executing a corner kickwhile the archer accommodated his defending and he was distracted Diaz took the opportunity to send a low shot from the corner. Despite the effort of guardamentathe ball went to network background.

During his time through Barcelonathe attacking midfielder has also scored free kick and Chilean. Previously he had already tried to mark olympic goals and he had succeeded.

Before arriving at canary team for the first time, the ‘Other’ had a step through Argentine and Chilean football. The first time he scored this kind of goal was in the Catholic University From Chile. the year ran 2009 when he faced United Curico. In that match he converted a ‘hat-trick’.​

In it ecuadorian football scored a goal from corner kick in 2018 vs. The National. From the left corner He sent the ball into the back of the net. although archer Johan Padilla tried to clear the ball, failed. Behind the annotation a controversy arose to determine whether or not it had been Olympic goal.

Among the arguments against, it was mentioned that the ball touched Padilla prior to enter the archso it was said to be own goal. In addition, the definition that the Olympic goal It is valid as long as it does not touch any player. Despite this, the referee of the party validated it because the free shots in the direction of the arc are considered imminent goalshence it does not influence the impact on another player.

Day by day, Damian Diaz collect 273 games with Barcelona, 64 goals and 68 assists. He wore the t-shirt Ecuador National Team due to his dual nationality.

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Leonel Quiñonez was close

The current Barcelona SC player also was nominated for the Puskas. It was in 2020 when he defended the colors of Macará de Ambato.

The goal that led him to be nominated was the one that scored the August 19, 2019 in the LigaPro. the 28-year-old left-footed player took a free kick from further back in the midfield, some 70 meters.

From the left side, he saw goalkeeper Hernán Galíndez, from Universidad Católica, and he threw the ball powerfully into the cornerwhich was celebrated by the Ambatean fans in the stands of the Atahualpa stadium.

After the preliminary vote, Quiñónez’s goal did not go to the final round in which the Uruguayans Giorgian were by Arrascaeta and Luis Suarez and South Korean Son Heung-min (winner).

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