Epic adapted scorpion kick goal by Mexico’s Lizbeth Ovalle goes viral

A Mexican women’s shot subordinate known arsenic “La Maga” (The Magician) has captivated the shot satellite with a stunning extremity for the Monterrey-based Tigres of Liga MX Femenil.

During a location lucifer past week against Chivas of Guadalajara, Lizbeth Ovalle scored by flicking the shot implicit the goalkeeper with her near bottommost portion hanging successful mid-air with her backmost toward the goal.

Not lone has the acrobatic feat gone viral and made headlines globally, but it’s besides garnering speculation arsenic the world’s astir astonishing extremity of the year.

Likened to a “scorpion kick” by some, Orvalle’s extremity was acceptable up by a crossing walk from Jenni Hermoso.

While accepted scorpion kicks impact utilizing the bottommost to nonstop the shot — 1 of the astir celebrated of all-time occurred successful a 1995 affable betwixt Colombia and England — Ovalle utilized the bottommost of her footwear to loft the shot past Chivas’ stunned goalkeeper.

The “modified scorpion kick” (as immoderate are calling it) broke a 0-0 necktie successful the 76th infinitesimal and helped nonstop the Tigers to an important 2-0 triumph implicit Chivas. Eight of the league’s 18 teams volition marque the playoffs, and with six matches to go, the Tigers are successful 4th spot and Chivas successful seventh.

Lizbeth Ovalle scored the singular extremity with a modified scorpion kick. (Tigres Feminil/Facebook)

Ovalle, a 25-year-old from the metropolis of Aguascalientes, is 1 of the champion players successful Liga MX Femenil and 1 of Mexico’s champion pistillate players overall. She has been with the UANL Tigers since 2017 (the squad is affiliated with the Autonomous University of Nuevo León, oregon UANL).

Referred to astatine times by the archetypal sanction Jacqueline, she has played for Mexico’s nationalist squad since 2018, scoring 20 goals successful 58 planetary games.

Last year, Mexico News Daily wrote astir her fabulous extremity that helped Mexico people a monumental 2-0 triumph implicit the United States successful the Concacaf W Gold Cup, a mini–World Cup for teams successful North America, Central America and the Caribbean. Before that, the U.S. women had 40 wins and 1 necktie successful their 42 erstwhile matches against Mexico, including 16 wins successful a enactment by a combined 65-4 score.

A originative and speedy subordinate with an oculus for scoring, Ovalle was besides a cardinal subordinate of the Mexico squad that won golden astatine the 2023 Pan American Games.

¡Ovalle con un golazo abre el marcador para México! 🤩 pic.twitter.com/3fWWMsMfXB

— Gold Cup (@GoldCup) February 27, 2024

Ovalle scored 15 goals successful 17 Liga MX Femenil games past play to fertile 3rd successful the league, and this play has 10 goals successful 11 games.

Her tally past week is being hyped for the Marta Award, which recognizes the astir spectacular extremity of the twelvemonth successful planetary women’s soccer. It is named for Marta Vieira da Silva, much commonly known arsenic Marta, a Brazilian regarded arsenic 1 of the top pistillate futbolistas ever.

If Ovalle wins, she would go the archetypal Mexican to triumph either the Marta (established by satellite shot governing FIFA lone past year) oregon the Puskás Award (awarded annually since 2009 for the astir eye-popping men’s extremity of the year).

“I don’t adjacent cognize … who knows however I did it,” Ovalle said aft the crippled portion referring to her extremity arsenic el camaroncín — the small shrimp.

“I conscionable saw the transverse coming successful and thought, ‘If I conscionable interaction it, wherever it goes, it goes.”

Where it went was consecutive into history.

With reports from Proceso, The Athletic, TUDN, Esto and Associated Press