Own goals are always devastating when they happen. The circumstances are always so dumb.
The ball takes an inadvertent bounce here or there and goes off of your leg and into your net. Or maybe you were about to clear it from the box and someone gets in the way and it bounces in the net.
The circumstances are never convenient. But it’s always 10 times worse when it’s something that was completely avoidable.
But that doesn’t even begin to describe what happened to Haiti’s keeper, Jousé Duverger, against Canada in a World Cup qualifying match-up.
Duverger had worked so hard for 45 minutes to keep Canada scoreless and had played well!
Then, in the 45th minute, the ball is just rolling toward him slowly as the half is about to end and Duverger just absolutely whiffs on the kick to stop it. And it rolls into the net. Own goal. Canada up 1-0 going into the half.
It was so heartbreaking.
— B/R Football (@brfootball) June 16, 2021
Duverger gave Canada the lead and they never looked back. They won the match 3-0 and won 4-0 in aggregate to eliminate Haiti from the World Cup. And that was the goal that opened the flood gates.
This is just mind-numbingly bad. Poor, poor Duverger.
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