“I say thank you to my family, to football and to those who invented this sport.” Words of an emotional person Marcin Oleksy, which yesterday evening at Paris received from FIFA il 'Puskas Award' for the best goal of the year, awarded to him by another specialist in goalscoring: Alessandro Del Piero.
Oleksy, his the most beautiful goal: his story
Oleksi, who with the conquest of this award enters a 'gallery' which includes champions of the calibre of Cristiano Ronaldo, Neymar, Mohamed Salah e Zlatan Ibrahimovic, also 'conquerors' of Puskas, is an emulator (in the sense that he scores a lot) of his compatriot Robert Lewandowski, who had posted images of the other's feat on his social media, inviting fans to vote for him.
But there is a substantial difference between the two, because Oleksi play, with the shirt of Warta Poznan, in the Polish championship of amputees (the 'Amp Futbol Ekstraklasa').
His acrobatic feat on November 6th, performed against the Stall Rzeszow, leaning on the left crutch bent diagonally and almost as if to defy the force of gravity, was so spectacular that it deserved the prize more than the Brazilian's masterpiece Richarlison in the match of World Cup in Qatar against Serbia.
Many voted for her and the 'Puskas' was also a prize for her determination and desire to never give up. Oleksi. Who is missing the lower part of his left leg, which was amputated when he was 23 and was invested while he was working on the edges a road.
At the time he played goalkeeper at an amateur level, and yesterday he recalled that the desire to play football never left him, not even in those terrible days spent in the hospital bed.
His words: “I never lost the desire to play football”
“I looked at my partner's belly when she came to visit me – he said -, She was pregnant at the time, and I thought that, despite everything, I would take my son to play football with me."
“Then, when they put a prosthesis on me, I took it to the field, we exchanged a few balls and I immediately understood that I really wanted to continue, even if in a different situation. And thanks to Warta I succeeded”. To the point of marking, with a scissor kick, the most beautiful goal in the world.
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