It's bad enough to be responsible for an own goal in a soccer match. However, it's even worse when you're the goalie...and you score the own goal with attempted clearance kick that deflects off the back of your teammate's head.
It happened in a recent college soccer match between Oklahoma Baptist University and Mid-America Nazarene University. OBU goalie Nick Ciliberti attempted to clear the ball from his end of the field. However, the attempted clearance kick went directly into the back of the head of one of Ciliberti's defenders.
Not only did Ciliberti's kick knock his OBU teammate onto the ground, but the ball took an unlucky bounce backward and upward at just the right angle to deflect back into his own net, scoring a goal for the other team.
College soccer goalie gets own goal after kicking ball into teammate's skull [Off the Bench]
It happened in a recent college soccer match between Oklahoma Baptist University and Mid-America Nazarene University. OBU goalie Nick Ciliberti attempted to clear the ball from his end of the field. However, the attempted clearance kick went directly into the back of the head of one of Ciliberti's defenders.
Not only did Ciliberti's kick knock his OBU teammate onto the ground, but the ball took an unlucky bounce backward and upward at just the right angle to deflect back into his own net, scoring a goal for the other team.
College soccer goalie gets own goal after kicking ball into teammate's skull [Off the Bench]
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