{"id":2391,"date":"2025-12-17T01:37:45","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T01:37:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/?p=2391"},"modified":"2025-12-17T01:37:45","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T01:37:45","slug":"best-goals-of-2026-ovalle-takes-home-marta-award-montiel-wins-puskas-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/?p=2391","title":{"rendered":"Best Goals of 2026: Ovalle Takes Home Marta Award, Montiel Wins Puskas Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"subnav-title ff-ffc bold fs-23 lh-25 uc pd-b-10\">\n            POPULAR SEARCHES\n          <\/p>\n<p class=\"subnav-title ff-ffc bold fs-23 lh-25 uc pd-b-10\">\n            BROWSE BY\n          <\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-7f81ca7a>A scorpion kick by Lizbeth Ovalle, the most expensive player ever in women\u2019s soccer, and Santiago Montiel\u2019s long-distance overhead shot won the FIFA awards on Tuesday for best goals last season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-7f81ca7a>Both had their backs to the net when scoring the winners. Fans voted for Ovalle and Montiel to receive the Marta Award and Puskas Award, respectively.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-7f81ca7a>Ovalle flicked the ball with her heels in a midair leap facing away from goal playing in the Mexican league for Tigres against Guadalajara.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-7f81ca7a>The women\u2019s award is named for Brazil great Marta who is now Ovalle\u2019s teammate at Orlando Pride. Marta won the award last year and also had a goal nominated by FIFA for this year\u2019s edition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-7f81ca7a>Ovalle, who is also known as Jacquie, moved for a women\u2019s world record transfer fee of $1.5 million to join the Pride from Tigres in August.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-7f81ca7a>Montiel scored for Independiente in a game in Argentina\u2019s Primera Division against Independiente Rivadavia. He leaped in the air about 22 meters (yards) out rising to meet a bouncing ball after a defender\u2019s clearing header from a corner.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-7f81ca7a>FIFA is staging its annual Best Awards at a private dinner in Doha on the sidelines of Paris Saint-Germain playing Flamengo in the Intercontinental Cup game on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-7f81ca7a>The awards for best player and best coach in men\u2019s and women\u2019s soccer were due later Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-7f81ca7a><i>Reporting by The Associated Press.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>POPULAR SEARCHES BROWSE BY A scorpion kick by Lizbeth Ovalle, the most expensive player ever in women\u2019s soccer, and Santiago Montiel\u2019s long-distance overhead shot won the FIFA awards on Tuesday for best goals last season. Both had their backs to the net when scoring the winners. Fans voted for Ovalle and Montiel to receive the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":2390,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-soccer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2391\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}