Male’, MALDIVES – Maldives national team midfielder, Ashad Ali (Adey) has said that support for his incredible penalty kick against Afghanistan was unbelievable.
Adey deceived the Afghanistan keeper Mansur Faqiryar, one of the best goal keepers in South East Asia, by performing a swallow dive before he had taken the spot-kick. And which helped the Maldives to win the match 8-7.
Speaking to maldivesoccer.com, Adey said that the support for this goal was unbelievable throughout the world.
“I am really happy for the support on this goal especially on the social media as well as well-known media agencies throughout the world.”
“I don’t think that there is any rule saying that it was against the rule. And I think it was a good one and I am sure if it’s a wrong one than the referee would have not accepted it.”
Some media reports said that it will be a good thing for the players to learn how to take a spot-kick after watching Adey’s penalty. The goal on YouTube got more than 6 million views within just 3 days.
The following are some of the headlines in international media about Adey’s goal.
“Assad 'Adey' Ali scores 'swallow dive' penalty for Maldives against Afghanistan. Maldives striker re-invents the penalty kick with bizarre swallow dive” - Telegraph
“Rooney, Gerrard and Wilshere take note! This is how to score a penalty” – Dailystar
“Is this the funniest penalty ever?” - BBC
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