FBaseball has seen some strange moments over the years, but few compare to what happened in this game.
Just seconds after kickoff, one team found themselves leading 1-0 without ever touching the ball.
Sequence lasted less than 20 seconds
After the first whistle, the opponents built up from the back and calmly moved the ball between their defenders. But when light pressure was applied, suddenly everything went wrong. A defender tried to pass the ball back to the goalkeeper who was far from the goal.
The pass slipped past the goalkeeper, who was completely out of position, and slowly crossed the goal line and into the empty goal. The opponent did not touch the ball. No shots were taken. Still, the goal counted.
Officially it was recorded as an own goal.
The moment occurred during a match between Sport Recife and Novolizontino in Brazil’s second division, and the mistake occurred just 18-19 seconds into the game.
The defender involved, Alison Cassiano, and the goalkeeper, Kaiku Frana, could only stare at each other in disbelief as the ball rolled in. What should have been a routine play ended up being one of the strangest goals in recent football memory.
Has something like this happened to you before?
Scoring a goal without an opponent’s touch is extremely rare, but not entirely unheard of.
In the history of soccer, extraordinary scoring moments have come in many forms, from long-range own goals to the controversial “ghost goals” in which referees award a goal even though it is unclear whether the ball has crossed the line.
Some fans have gone a step further and suggested that this unusual moment feels too weird to be real. This order was so unlikely that some online speculated about the possible impact of the bet. However, there is no evidence to support these claims, and it remains far more likely that it was simply a rare and costly mistake, one of those moments in football that are hard to explain when.
