Goal Of The Season Contender | Craig Martin | Cape Town City vs Chippa United

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Goal Of The Season Contender | Craig Martin | Cape Town City vs Chippa United

THE BACKSTORY

I, the Locked Down Spectator, will be looking at the best goals scored during the 2023/24 Premier Soccer League season.

This series will look at quality goals that were scored in the DStv Premiership, MTN 8 Wafa Wafa, Carling Knockout Cup and the Nedbank Cup. We can have our negative thoughts about club football in South Africa, but you and I have to admit that some world class goals do grace our matches, and disappointingly, to little fanfare.

If we were serious as a football public, we should be clamouring for them to be included for consideration in the annual FIFA Puskas Award, starting with the 2024 edition. I have taken my time to sit down and rewatch the highlights of EVERY PSL match thus far this season to see if there were goals that could be considered a Goal Of The Season contender.

As per Wikipedia, the FIFA Puskas Award "is an award established on 20 October 2009 by the Federation International de Football Association at the behest of then-president Sepp Blatter Sepp Blatter, to be awarded to the male or female judged to have scored the most aesthetically significant, or "most beautiful", goal of the calendar year.

Famously, goalkeeper Oscarine Masuluke, in the colours of Baroka FC, scored a bicycle kick goal in a last-ditch, last-gasp play against Orlando Pirates at the Peter Mokaba Stadium in Polokwane, Limpopo. Scored during the 2016/17 ABSA Premiership season, his goal would finish controversially behind Olivier Giroud's spectacularly memorable 'Scorpion Kick' for Arsenal against Crystal Palace in the Premier League that same season.

Incidentally, Masuluke, Hlompho Kekana (twice), Siphiwe Tshabalala and Katlego Mphela are the only South African players to be nominated for the prestigious FIFA Puskas Award thus far since its inception.

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