5 strangest goals ever scored in football

#5 The tackle that became a goal

It is traditionally Sunday afternoon amateur football in England that is considered the apogee of mud and bluster, but it is to the Italian lower leagues we go for the best tackle to became a goal in the history of the sport.

The setting was the Santa Croce sull’Arno stadium in Tuscany and the protagonist was Domenico Zampaglione, a midfielder for the visiting Lamezia team. As the ball fell loose well inside his own half he launched himself into a full-blooded sliding challenge, won the ball and then watched on in awe as the wind picked it up and sent it flying past the Tuttocuoio goalkeeper and in for a strange and spectacular strike.