We here at The18 love great goals. We do our best to bring you, our dear readers, the best goals as they happen throughout the world. But we also know the appeal of watching some of the worst soccer goals in the world.
The beautiful game is at its best when the world’s finest athletes use skills honed over decades to score goals that make you leap out of your seat with glee (or sink into it in despair). But not every goal can be a Cristiano Ronaldo bicycle kick.
Many goals in the sport we love are pedestrian. Simple tap-ins, penalty kicks or headers off corner kicks are fantastic when they give your team the lead, but aren’t all that special and nothing to write about on a super cool website that we’re sure you’ve bookmarked already.
More deserving of the written word are the worst soccer goals. And that’s just what we’re writing about here.
This collection of the worst soccer goals from the 2017-18 season is a two-part masterpiece. These videos are like a train wreck — you want to look away but you just can’t.
Many are own goals, the most embarrassing way to allow a goal. Some are the result of poor passing, like Arsenal’s Petr Cech giving the ball straight to an opponent. Some are the result of a bad hop or unfortunate bounce, like Manchester United scoring against Benfica after the ball hit the post, bounced off the goalkeeper and went into the net. And plenty involve goalkeeping blunders, like USMNT’s lone at 5:15 in the first video. And yes, Loris Karius is featured, twice.
Many of these worst soccer goals have been covered before by this beloved website, but never before in one complete collection.
So if you’ve got some free time before the World Cup starts on June 14, sit back, relax and enjoy some crap football with the worst soccer goals of the 2017-19 season.
You won’t be disappointed. Especially when some of them come from all-name-team members like Josh Windass and Yago Pikachu. What's not to like?
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