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  • Seventy-eight minutes in, when Wayne Rooney scored his now-famous, game-winning, universally-headlined "wondergoal" -- from a bicycle kick, chilena, scissor-kick or any number of other inadequate descriptives -- I sat on the edge of the bed asking myself: What, if anything, just happened?

    SI.com 2011

  • I still treasure an Argentina I was shirt given by the guy in the next seat to me in Marseilles, minutes after Bergkamp's wondergoal had sent Argentina home from the 1998 World Cup.

    The winning secret of Sir Alex Ferguson's lucky underpants | Harry Pearson 2011

  • It's enough that the wondergoal impressed my father -- that it blew his mind and almost certainly his knees, as I could dimly hear him trying to recreate the thing on his echoing lanai as we spoke.

    SI.com 2011

  • Story Highlights Wayne Rooney's bicycle kick goal was can't-believe-what-I'm seeing moment The wondergoal made my 77-year-old father suddenly interested in soccer

    SI.com 2011

  • In a way I feel for Bentley, this should have been the perfect move for him but since he never got back into the team when Lennon hit top form he has floundered, it still baffles me how he played so well at Blackburn, moves to his boyhood club scores the wondergoal at Arsenal and then just goes backwards from there,, bizarre!

    Evening Standard - Home 2011

  • Plus the neutrals were given a nicely balanced, back and forth game decided only by a pseudo-wondergoal from Germany's wonderboy.

    Soccer Blogs - latest posts 2010

  • As Alvaro Pereira makes a last despairing lunge, Nasri caps his wondergoal with his 14th touch, a right-foot shot across goalkeeper Helton.

    Football.co.uk news feed 2010

  • For the second straight year, an absolute wondergoal from Spurs opened proceedings early in the first half; this time, however, they would win, and do so at home.

    The Offside chris 2010

  • The Cruyff turn, the 'Hand of God', Owen's '98 wondergoal, Gordon Banks' save from Pelé - we've all got our favourite World Cup moments.

    Home 2010

  • While not everyone is a Fulham supporter, you only had to browse the message forums and blogs to see what impact Clint Dempsey's wondergoal against Juventus had on soccer fans in the U.S.A. last week.

    British Blogs EPL Talk 2010

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