In the history of football, an own goal is not a rare phenomenon. Some players who scored their own goals became the "sinners" of the team, some even suffered undue disasters and some became heroes.
1, we often don't want to talk about this past, because his ending is not what our football world loves.
Escobar, former captain of Colombian national team and loyal servant of Medellin national team, should have had a brilliant career, but the accident of 1994 made him leave everyone forever. 194 World Cup, Escobar accidentally scored an own goal against the United States, and finally the team 1-2 lost, ending the World Cup tour. After returning home, Escobar was shot dead by the other party after arguing with others about the own goal, at the age of 27.
2. Perhaps under the increasingly perfect football rules, it is hard for us to imagine how an own goal can be a weapon to save the team, but in a semi-final of last century, such a magical own goal was really staged.
1994, Shell Caribbean Cup semi-final, Grenada VS Barbados. Barbados needed two goal difference in the game to advance to the final, when Barbados scored two goals quickly. But seven minutes before the end of the game, the opponent moved another goal. At this time, there is not much time left in the game, and Barbados can't break through the opponent's door. At the last minute, they kicked the ball directly into their own goal. Because under the rules at that time, the game did not accept the result of a draw, the score became 2:2, and the two teams entered overtime. Miraculously, in overtime, Barbados scored two goals with the help of God and finally advanced to the game 4-2. The own goal also became the turning point of the whole game. At that time, the players who used the rules reasonably became the heroes of the team.