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Boca Juniors' Martin Palermo scores 40-yard header against Velez Sarsfield
Before Boca Juniors' 3-2 victory over Velez Sarsfield on Sunday, Martin Palermo was most famous for missing three penalties in one match for Argentina back in 1999 during a Copa America first-round tie against Columbia.

The Argentinians lost the match 3-0, he did not put on an international shirt for another 10 years and his three penalty misses continue to be a world record today.
However, the 35-year-old striker may now have headed his way into the record books for altogether more positive reasons.
Last weekend, Velez Sarsfield goalkeeper German Montoya came out of his box to kick the ball clear and it sailed harmlessly, at head height, towards the centre circle.
Palermo, though, was standing just outside the circle, 38.90 metres from goal, and without moving headed it straight back in the direction it came from and into the back of the net.
“It always happens to me. When I look for similar stories of other players there aren’t any. Things happen to me that I can’t explain,” Palermo said.
Last month Palermo made his international comeback as a substitute in Argentina’s 1-0 defeat against Paraguay, a result that has left Diego Maradona’s team teetering on the edge of World Cup qualification failure.
And now, following his heroics in domestic competition, Maradona looks set to pick the Boca forward for Argentina’s critical, must-win World Cup qualifier against Peru at the Monumental on Saturday.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/international/6264761/Boca-Juniors-Martin-Palermo-scores-40-yard-header-against-Velez-Sarsfield.html
Argentina: Boca Juniors Martin Palermo Spectacular Goal 40 Metre Header

Pretty nice goal this one! All luck, but still! We need a bit of this kind of luck at the moment i think.

always a good player in football manager

What a load of sh*t.

Now if he'd taken the ball back into his own half, kicked it into the air, and then scored with a header, I'd have been impressed.

Hard man to impress Ayrton Yeah, i still thought it was a good bit of luck. Xabi could have done that from his own half though.

The impact of the ball was so great that I thought a good touch of it would also mean the ball would fly far.

Good on him though.

Hard man to impress Ayrton Yeah, i still thought it was a good bit of luck. Xabi could have done that from his own half though.

Xabi can only kick it, Aquilani will head it in from there.

I do feel slightly cheated, though. I thought that he wasn't going to have it smashed onto his forehead. I thought he'd power it himself.

You's have to admit, that's a brilliant piece of skill no matter how lucky he was it came to him. With the ball spinning, he was able to still get it in from that far.

However! sh*t goalkeeping.

Yeah, although an open goal we have all seen opportunities like that missed, and with the pace on the ball it took alot to control.
Reminded me of some of the random times you suddenly see Reina halfway down the pitch Though Reina knows what he is doing, unlike that douchebag!

Reminds me of Anelka's open goal miss. That was class

That was harder to miss. And he did. Oh how i laughed that night

Gooooooool!

However! Sh*t goalkeeping.

Yep.

Good on him though.

Jammy get,now if I'd a got that I would have said I ment it :f_whistle:well wouldn't you!

same guy who scored winner for Argentina last night. as it said above had not played in 10 yrs.

That must have hurt his head so much though. Great goal and i see he got one for Argentina that sees them getting closer to qualification.

Awful goalkeeping... but still he done well to get it on target.

Bet he needed a few paracetemol after the game!