The Puskas Award has just got a new nominee - Maradona and Messi have got a credible successor
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Reading Time: 2min | Fri. 25.11.22. | 13:46
Gaspar Biasin, a player in the seventh tier of Argentine football, scored a mouthwatering goal after a sensational slalom
La zurda.
Roughly translated from Spanish, it means left-handed, left-footed. But in Argentina, it's much more than that - a part of footballing identity, a connection with the glorious past and an acknowledgement of class on the pitch.
Diego Maradona was the first to stun the planet with his out-of-this-world left, and then - years later - came another tiny magician, Lionel Messi. For a while, it seemed there was no successor in sight, but the latest news from Argentina shows a new kid on the block.
The best player of the 20th century & the 21st century scoring the exact same goal. It was written in the stars. Maradona made Messi who he is pic.twitter.com/2RtAPVy46I
— probably:isaac 🇧🇷 (@IA37__) November 25, 2020
His name is Gaspar Biasin, and the only thing we know is he's still in those youth setups of the - brace yourself - seventh division side San Martin de Progreso.
In their match against Sarmiento, he scored a spine-tingling goal resembling some of Maradona's and Messi's artwork.
No busquen más. Acá está uno de los goles del año. Gaspar BiasÃn juega en la séptima de San MartÃn de Progreso (el club desde donde surgió el querido Emiliano Sala) y dejó a más de medio equipo rival en el suelo. DISPARATE.pic.twitter.com/ej820nRbZz
— VarskySports (@VarskySports) November 24, 2022
The images went viral through social networks until they reached prominent journalists such as Juan Pablo Varsky and some national media... Take a bow, son!
It should be remembered that San Martin de Progreso is the club where Emiliano Sala was raised as a footballer. Sala was a forward who died when the plane in which he was travelling to the city of Nantes in the English Channel crashed in 2019.
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