Usain Bolt has scored his first goals for a professional football team, getting two on his maiden start for Central Coast Mariners in a friendly.
The Jamaican eight-time Olympic sprint champion scored the Mariners' third and fourth goals in a 4-0 win over Macarthur South West and celebrated with his trademark lightning bolt pose.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/45834453
For his opening goal Bolt ran on to a chipped ball played by Scotland striker Ross McCormack, held off the defender and finished powerfully low past the goalkeeper.
He capitalised on a defensive mix-up for his second, with a Macarthur defender and goalkeeper colliding to leave Bolt able to tap in from close range.
McCormack, on loan from Aston Villa, headed in the Mariners' first goal in the eighth minute.
"The best thing about Usain Bolt is he's so humble," McCormack said.
"He's fitted in well with the lads. From my first day even to where he is now, the transformation is huge."
Goals.............
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12-10-2018 12:17 PM #1
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12-10-2018 12:19 PM #2
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Could he do a job for us?
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12-10-2018 12:24 PM #4
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He might struggle with the Hearts offside trap
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Kind of like us playing a friendly against East Fife.
I'm not sure the question of him doing a job for us was entirely serious though.
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12-10-2018 08:41 PM #9
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That kind of standard.
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13-10-2018 12:39 AM #11
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Having the levels of fitness he does alongside even moderate footballing abilities would be Lethal in certain games within certain divisions. He is going to blow hot and cold but as a novelty player I’m sure he will
Be good and if nothing else entertaining to watch.
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Watched it live.
Usain Bolt may be a very personable bloke , but he was like a girrafe on ice last night, although he would be pleased with his first goal, although even Makalamby would have saved it at his near post.
The team he was playing against does not yet exist, and is hopeful of gaining acceptance to the A League.
Central Coast Mariners for whom he played, are close to bankruptcy
, and are trying desperately to raise their profile.
Commercially Usain Bolt is a draw card, simply by his name.
Football wise he would not even be up to Cowdenbeath standard.
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13-10-2018 06:26 AM #13
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Be like sproule on steroids
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The time it takes him to get the ball under control allows defenders to close him down....
I accept that the vision may of him being fed through balls to run onto leaving everybody in his wake, but the reality is something different.
One of the statements made about him by the coaching staff is that he needs to still work on his fitness
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Sprinting in a straight line and running while controlling a ball with your feet are very, very different.
Individual sports and team sports are very different (I get that Bolt was in the relay team, but that is a team sport in the loosest sense).
Training and fitness regimes for sprinting and football are night and day.
I think the fanboys might have to accept that Usain Bolt is simply nowhere near the level of an elite footballer.
This is showbiz, not sport.
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Reported in the Oz media today that Bolt has actually been offered a contract by a Maltese club and is considering it.
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16-10-2018 07:51 AM #24
If you’re not one of the thousands of players offered a contract by Potter this summer then you know you’re ****.
Do you think your security can keep you in purity, you will not shake us off above or below. Scottish friction, Scottish fiction
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16-10-2018 08:09 AM #25
He played in the charity match this summer at Old Trafford (can't remember what it was called - Englad v The World with celebs) and he looked well out of his depth there. He's taken the first goal well there and shown decent opportunism to be there for the second so maybe he's had some coaching. Definitely more of a novelty signing though just to make some quick cash.
Mon the Hibs.
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You have far superior players in the junior leagues.
It's not doing any harm though and if it's good publicity for the club then so be it
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Have West Coast Mariners told him to bolt?
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