Never seen an amazing goal from a direct corner kick? You're welcome.

9/17/2012

This is, quite simply, awesome. Soccer fans know that goals scored directly from a corner kick are possible, but they're normally due to a freak play or a goalkeeping error. To deliberately curl a ball around a goal post and a goalkeeper from approximately 50 yards away almost defies physics. Enter forward Thierry Henry. The New York Red Bulls player managed to score perhaps the best goal this year against the Columbus Crew over the weekend. "(Columbus goalie Matt Lampson) was off his line," Henry explained afterward. "So I tried." We're all delighted that you did, Thierry.

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