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*Some goals win games. This one made FIFA rewrite the rulebook.* April 2008. Champions League. 40 yards out. 64.2 mph. Cristiano Ronaldo in a United shirt looked at goal and everyone screamed "NO. PASS IT." Then he did the impossible. Ball comes in. Head down. One strike. The net bulges. Porto’s keeper didn’t even move. The stadium went silent for half a second before it exploded. Even Rio Ferdinand on commentary said it: "things that make you scratch your head like how?" That goal was so outrageous, so far from what football was supposed to be, that a year later FIFA had to create something new to honor moments like it. The Puskás Award. Best goal of the year. Named after the greatest goal scorer ever, created because of a 23-year-old from Madeira who decided 40 yards wasn’t far enough. You don’t score a goal like that. You invent it. And football has been chasing it ever since. #CR7 #Ronaldo #Puskas #UCL #ManUtd

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