Chicho Arango scores from half field with ease. Cicho even looks to the left, as he sets up to strike the soccer ball, then lasers the ball with his laces over Austin FC goalkeeper Brad Stuver. An almost no-look half field strike?
Chicho took a few touches, looked up and saw the keeper off his line, and went for it. Such a brilliant half field goal by Chicho. The goal comes just at the start of the game, too. Real Salt lake would go on to win the game 5-1. With Chicho finishing with a hat trick.
Perhaps this goal by Chicho is most similar to David Beckham’s long range strike when he played for Manchester United and scored from half field. It has the same flair and nonchalance style. Chicho perhaps tops it though with the looking the other way before he shoots.
Youth soccer players, remember to keep your head up, you never know if the keeper is too far outside his goal area. Plus, post match, Arango talked about how you have to try things if you want to score goals. Sometimes you have to just go for it. As for Austin FC goalkeeper Brad Stuver, he’ll just have to try and forget this one and move on.
With LAFC, Arango made $683,000 per year. Now, with Real Salt Lake, he’s making $2,088,746 per year. Nearly four times as much. It is a well earned boost to his salary and a smart signing by Real Salt Lake. Arango scored 35 goals in only 58 appearances for LAFC. That’s a lot of goals. It is surprising that LAFC didn’t resign him.
Furthermore, this half field goal by Chicho is surely in the running for goal of the year in the MLS. He made it look so easy though. That might rule it out of the competition!
Overall, in the race for the golden boot, or top goal scorer in the MLS, Christian ‘Chicho’ Arango leads with 16 total goals. Arango has another player named Christian chasing him in Christian Benteke with 13. And he has two former Barcelona legends in Lionel Messi and Luis Suarez. Now of course playing for Inter Miami, both with 12 goals.
In the end, it will be a challenge to beat out Messi and Suarez. However, Chicho is in a good rhythm and playing confidently, as you can see from this half field goal.
Moreover, Chicho’s goal scoring talents in the MLS have put him into the starting lineup for his home country Colombia. Incidentally, Chicho should see time versus the United States in their friendly match ahead of Copa America this week.
