A day like today, but in 1924, the Argentine national team victory 2 to 1 a Uruguay in the stadium Sportivo Barracas. Cesarean Onzari wrote down the historicalOlympic goal” in front of Celeste who had just conquered gold in the Paris Olympics.
On several occasions Olympic goals were converted anywhere in the world. This fact arose almost a century ago, when Argentine football was still not professional and the world Cup.
Previously, this type of goal was not validated. But in June 1924, the International Board modified the regulation and determined that the corner kicks are direct, instead of indirect. In this way, a goal from the corner was valid.
The story of the Olympic goal
It happened on October 2, 1924, in a friendly between Argentina and Uruguay played at the old Sportivo Barracas field. The charrúas came from being champions in the Olympic Games of Paris. In the final, La Celeste beat Swiss and became the first South American to win the gold medal.
before playing in Buenos AiresBoth teams met in Montevideo and finished 1-1. The rematch was going to take place on September 28, but it was suspended, due to the fact that the public was near the lateral lines. It should be noted that the court did not have a fence.
Four days later, with the fence in place, the second duel was played. Fifteen minutes into the first half, Cesáreo Onzari executed a corner kick and the ball entered the Uruguayan goal without anyone having touched the ball.
The visiting players were amazed and then protested to the Uruguayan referee Ricardo Vallarino. The claim was due to the fact that the goalkeeper Delicious was pushed while the ball was moving in the air. They also argued that Onzari did not intend to shoot on goal and that the wind caused the ball to enter the goal.
Most did not know the new regulations, but the judge who validated the goal did. This shout of Cesáreo Onzari remained in the history of Argentine and world football. In tribute to being the first goal in this way and against Uruguay, Olympic champion, it was baptized as “Olympic goal”.
Marco Coll’s Olympic goal, the only one in the history of the World Cups?
Several years ago there was a theory that only one Olympic goal had been scored in the history of the World Cup. The same was converted on June 3, 1962 by the Colombian Marco Cole. that duel between Colombia y Soviet Union finished 4-4 for the second date of the group stage.
But in 2020, a Cuban soccer blog assured that this hypothesis of the only Olympic goal is false, since previously a goal was scored from a corner. This medium cited two sources that show that the first Olympic goal was from Jose Magriña.
One of the sources is the newspaper Today newswhich is about the declaration of Juan Tunas. “The play that caused me the most emotion was the goal scored by Magriña as a result of a direct corner without anyone’s intervention,” said the former striker.
Colombian media have their doubts about the corroboration of these sources, since they were not found digitally. No photos or videos of that goal were found either. In this way, it confuses this theory that there was only one Olympic goal in the World Cups or two.
Two Olympic goals in the same match
It is not very common for an Olympic goal to be converted. But there were cases where they scored two goals from a corner in the same game, and in less than five minutes.
Deportivo Cali became the first and only team to score two Olympic goals in the same match Libertadores Cup. It was in the 3-2 win against Quilmes as a local in 1979. The authors were Angel Torres y Ernest Alvarez.
But it was not the only event in which two Olympic goals were scored in the same match. On February 4, 2018, Fiorentina won as a visitor by 2-1 to Bologna by the date 23 of the Serie A de Italy. After 40 minutes of play, the French Jordan Veretout opened the scoring for Fiore. Three minutes later, the Chilean Erick Thumb he partially equalized the match for the homeowner.
On September 9, 2019, Joe Jacobson he scored a hat-trick and two of them came from the corner. Wycombe Wanderers won 3-1 to Lincoln City by League Onethird division of England.
On March 7, 2022, something similar happened in women’s football. Front Katie Zelem he also took the ball to score a hat-trick and two of them were Olympic. But the funny thing is that it took him three minutes to make them. on that afternoon, Manchester United thrashed 4-0 to Leicester by English Women’s Super League.
In the lower of Riverthere were two players who scored an Olympic goal in the 6-2 win against Godoy Cruz. Franco Mastantuono y Lautaro Pereyra they were the authors of the goals from the corner kick.
The last Olympic goal in Argentine football
The last time an Olympic goal was scored in Argentina was very recent and it happened last Wednesday, September 28. In The Rioja, Patronage eliminated River on penalties from the Argentine Cup and advanced to the semifinals where they will face Boca.
When El Patron won 2-1, the Colombian Juan Fernando Quintero took a corner kick and the ball went into the goal Facundo Altamirano. With that goal, the Millionaire tied 2-2 against the team from Entre Ríos, but fell 4-3 on penalties.
