Subri: Roberto Carlos pronounced it was a smashing goal
- Malaysian Mohd Faiz Subri won a 2016 FIFA Puskás Award
- Winning strike was a swerving long-range giveaway kick
- Subri’s idea was praised by Brazil fable Roberto Carlos
Earlier this year, during a TPC Studios in Zurich on 9 January, there was a final call for voting for a FIFA Puskás Award. The vast shade inside a hall, flashy in a clothing of a initial The Best FIFA Football Awards™, showed a final 3 nominated goals. This was many expected a initial time that some of a footballing greats inside a gymnasium had seen a overwhelming strikes.
One such chairman was FIFA World Cup™ leader Roberto Carlos, no foreigner to fiercely-struck swerving giveaway kicks, who expected took good notice of Mohd Faiz Subri’s near-physics-defying set-piece, that claimed a 2016 FIFA Puskás Award. The Brazilian legend, it after transpired, would find out a Malaysian to honour him on a idea and a award. That is maybe an denote of what a life-changing impulse it was for a Penang forward.
Recalling a whirlwind days in snowy Zurich, during a finish of that he claimed a 2016 Puskás Award, Subri beamed. “Roberto Carlos pronounced to me that it was a smashing goal,†he said, vocalization to FIFA.com.
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As good as a former left-back, Subri mingled with an array of high form names from a universe of football. A Manchester United fan, he was gay to accommodate Sir Alex Ferguson and his statue – and The Best FIFA Men’s Player 2016 – Cristiano Ronaldo, as good as Manuel Neuer and a male who gave him his trophy: O Fenômeno Ronaldo.
Subri’s acceptance debate will positively go down as one of a some-more conspicuous moments in a story of FIFA’s awards ceremonies. Spending a few moments scrolling by his phone, carrying collected his endowment from a Brazilian legend, several seconds upheld before he eventually started reading from his mobile.
“In that case, my translator and crony had helped me with a speech,†Subri laughed. “Actually, we’d already prepared it. we left a printed chronicle in my hotel room. Then when we realised, my crony sent another duplicate of a debate to my phone around WhatsApp! we was a bit shaken when we was announced as a winner.
“I review a debate again and again to try to remember it. we think, in a end, we did a good pursuit on stage,†Subri resolved with a meaningful smile.
I’m so nervous,lucky we can find this on my cellphone…
Thank You everyone
Malaysia Boleh and Haria Penang Haria pic.twitter.com/SYPIghw9gk— faizsubri13 (@faizsubri131) January 9, 2017
The tour that took him to that theatre started with a lot of tough work on a training pitch. Spending during slightest 15-20 mins after each singular training event with his bar side Penang authorised Subri to ideal a overwhelming snake that famously cheated Mohd Nasril Nourdin in a Pahang idea approach behind in Feb 2016. After that moment, Subri was catapulted to celebrity in his local Malaysia and worldwide, with millions voting for his idea to win a award. Unsurprisingly, a increasing seductiveness has had a knock-on effect, on a pitch.
“The antithesis positively put some-more players in a wall, and a goalkeepers, we think, are wakeful of my ability to make a round snake again and again,†Subri said.
2016 FIFA Puskás Award voting results:
59.46% - Mohd Faiz Subri (Penang v Pahang, Malaysian Super League)
22.86% - Marlone (Corinthians v Cobresal, Copa Libertadores)
10.01% – Daniuska Rodriguez (Venezuela v Colombia, Women’s U-17 Sudamericano Championship)
7.68% -Â Others
But what was behind a Subri phenomenon, a swell in recognition that saw him explain a award?
“The response from a open was awesome,†Subri smiled. “Most of a nominations, we think, customarily come from Europe or South America, and some-more normal footballing nations. It’s not common to have a assignment from Malaysia, or even an Asian country. Also, people in Malaysia always have their smartphone stranded to their hand! So it was positively easy for Malaysians to opinion for me.â€
HERO’S WELCOME
“This endowment is not only for me though for all Malaysians”#Puskás Award-winner Mohd Faiz Subrihttps://t.co/PK6rKlu57J pic.twitter.com/6dIiZWqIq1— FIFA.com (@FIFAcom) January 11, 2017
As a outcome of his continued training belligerent practice, Subri has left tighten to replicating his wonder-strike, attack a crossbar – before a team-mate incited home – against Melaka in a Malaysian Super League. As he has not managed to replicate his possess effort, he named a integrate of intensity favourites for this year’s award.
“I consider a idea by Henrikh Mkhitaryan, a scorpion flog [for Manchester United opposite Sunderland],†Subri said. “In fact, there were dual goals that week that were extraordinary and utterly similar, one by Olivier Giroud [for Arsenal opposite Crystal Palace] and a other by Mkhitaryan. Both, we think, are clever possibilities for a 2017 award.â€
Subri will no doubt be energetically examination when a 10 goals on this year’s shortlist are suggested after this month. It will positively take some idea to follow a Malaysian’s conspicuous swerving giveaway flog that drew regard from one of a masters of a art of scoring marvellous goals.
Past FIFA Puskás Award winners:
2016: Mohd Faiz Subri
2015: Wendell Lira
2014: James Rodriguez
2013: Zlatan Ibrahimovic
2012: Miroslav Stoch
2011: Neymar
2010: Hamit Altintop
2009: Cristiano Ronaldo
Article source: http://www.fifa.com/the-best-fifa-football-awards/news/y=2017/m=9/news=subri-roberto-carlos-said-it-was-a-wonderful-goal-2907446.html