World Top Ten Most Embarrassing Own Goals in Soccer History

More than anything, sports fans love to marvel at exciting plays in games or events. But perhaps a close second would be watching bloopers, gaffes, and screwups committed by highly-skilled professional athletes. Maybe it’s because it helps fans remember that even these well-paid players are human and are therefore capable of making mistakes just like any other person.

And when it comes to mistakes, the own goal is arguably the gravest error in team sports.

True, there are own goals in ice hockey, but they are more easily overcome due to the propensity of scoring in that sport. Once in a while, you’ll see a tipped basketball into a team’s own bucket, but those rarely affect the outcome of a game. There are even a few storied tales of “wrong-way” runs in football that resulted in a safety when the wayward player thought it was a touchdown. And it’s impossible to accidentally score a run for the other team in baseball (although having a home run hit off of your head is close).

But in soccer, an own goal is like a dagger through the heart. That’s because goals of any kind are so rare in a given match, and so many precautions are taken to ensure that these calamities don’t happen. Even so, the soccer ball does sometimes take odd and unpredictable bounces — and once in a while, those caroms wind up touching net. Case in point: after four years of the requisite hype, buildup, and anticipation the 2014 World Cup finally got underway on June 12. And with billions of fans watching globally, the first score of the entire tournament came… on an own goal, when Brazil’s Marcelo attempted to clear a ball out of the box but instead pushed it into the Brazilian net in the 11th minute of his side’s match against Croatia. (Brazil wound up winning 3-1.) Then three days later, two own goals were recorded on the same day (by Honduras and Bosnia and Herzegovina) for only the fourth time in World Cup history.

These ten own goals stand out from the rest because of their flair, impact, astounding incompetence, or a combination of all three. So the next time your son or daughter accidentally scores a goal for the other side in a kids’ match, just remember these ten inauspicious moments in top-level soccer history.

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