
What a week it has been for Sergio Aguero! Having played the
leading role in Argentina retaining their FIFA U-20 World Cup
crown, the Atletico Madrid forward has pocketed his third
individual accolade from the event. Recipient of the adidas Golden
Ball and adidas Golden Shoe awards, one of Aguero's six strikes
on Canadian soil has now been voted as the goal of the tournament
by the users of
FIFA.com.
It was a goal certainly worthy of the distinction. With
Argentina's Round of 16 tie against Poland evenly poised at
1-1, Aguero produced a goal certain to decorate highlight reels for
years to come. Receiving the ball with his back to goal, just
inside the Polish area, the 19-year-old flicked it up off the turf
and dinked it over his marker, before navigating past him and
volleying the ball into the bottom-left corner of Bartosz
Bialkowski's net to gasps from the Toronto crowd.
The effort, which arrived just moments into the second half and
helped the
Albiceleste to a 3-1 victory, proved to be
FIFA.com readers' pick of a selection of
memorable goals. Receiving an average rating of 4.3, it edged
Giovanni Dos Santos' screamer in Mexico's 3-0 win over
Gambia into second place. Rather than control a bouncing ball
narrowly inside the Africans' 18-yard box, the Barcelona
starlet unleashed a thunderbolt that dipped under the crossbar and
rippled the back of Joseph Gomez's net.
With an average rating of 4.1, Canada 2007's third best
goal again went to Aguero, this time for his match-winning
free-kick against Korea DPR in Group E. Combining rich inswing with
power,
El Kun squeezed the ball just inside the left-hand post
and beyond the reach of the diving Kwang Min Ju to seal a 1-0
success. It is evident that the former Independiente front-runner
has a penchant for scoring wonder goals, like his compatriot and
another graduate of the biennial youth event, Diego Maradona, who
posted some impressive individual goals during Argentina's
triumphant Japan 1979 campaign.
Honourable mentions must go to Uruguay's Luis Suarez and
Argentina's Angel Di Maria, who scored long-range piledrivers
against Spain and Chile respectively, Brazil's Leandro Lima,
who provided fans in Burnaby with an unforgettable scissor-kick in
his side's 4-2 loss to the Spaniards in the Round of 16, and
Freddy Adu's sumptuous curler in USA's 6-1 defeat of Poland
in Group D.








