The friendly match in which Atletico Madrid crushed Noumantia 4-0 This Wednesday will go down in history. Not because of his result or his goals, which will soon be forgotten as is the case with almost every pre-season game, but because of the anecdote that happened around Antonio Gomis.
Gomis, a 19-year-old Spaniard and Goalkeeper B of Atletico Madridentered a first-team match for the first time but he did not do so in defense of his own causebut with the the goal of scoring a goal in the opponent’s goal, although Atleti had already been thrashed 4-0 when replaced Mario Hermozo in the 76th minute.
Why did Gomis have to enter? It was because Hermozo was injured in the left ankle and manager Diego Pablo Simeone had made 11 changes at half-time. Only one player remained on the bench: it was about Gomis, third goalkeeper Of the template. Either he came on or Atleti were left with 10 players on the pitch.
Antonio Gomis (Atleti B goalkeeper) has just entered as a player and in Felipe’s shirt. This team is surreal pic.twitter.com/kQPoI1o0iH
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The youngster originally from Elche, with experience in the quarries of Elche and Real Madrid, he jumped onto the field without his gloves and next to Brazilian Matheus Cunha and he didn’t do badly, although probably never again in his entire career as a professional footballer will he play in any other position than that of goalkeeper.
Cases similar to that of Antonio Gomis: goalkeepers away players
There were quite a few in football goalkeeperWhat Jose Luis Felix Chilavert either Rogerio Seni. In fact, in Argentina, at the last meeting of the Professional Football League, Gaspar Servius scored a brace for Rosario Central with two penalty goals.
But it is very different that a goalkeeper occupies another position on the field.
The Mexican Jorge Campos He was a master of this dual role, alternating between the goalscoring performances that took him to the World Cup three times, with special forays as a striker more than anything else early in his professional career.
The Chilean Victor Loyola entered the game as a substitute striker and scored a goal with a header for Santiago Morning in the regional quarterfinals.
Liverpool had an experience similar to that of Atletico Madrid: Samal George made his debut for Jurgen Klopp’s men in a friendly in 2016, taking a place as an outfield player because the team had no other players available enter.
The Argentine Agustin Marchesin He has been one of the best goalkeepers in Liga MX in recent years and also had a few minutes away from goal: in August 2016 he injured a finger on his right hand during a match between Santos Laguna Y Puebla and so he continued to occupy a position as a striker while his teammate Kristian Álvarez was responsible for the goal defence. Everything is to not leave his team with one less player on the field.
In May 1996, the SC Freiburg lost by him Borussia Dortmund on the final day of the German Bundesliga and coach Volker Finke experimented with the starting goalkeeper, Jorg Schmadtke, as a striker: brought on the substitute goalkeeper for a defender so that Schmadtke could get close to the opposing goal. It worked, because Served an assist for a goal in the 87th minute.
Spanish football has also been the scene of two other occasions: the most memorable is his debut Jose Francisco Molina in the national team, acting as a left winger in a friendly against Norway. Manager Javier Clemente needed to replace Juanma López and had no choice but to have Molina on the bench, so Molina jumped onto the pitch and almost scored a goal.
Miguel Angel Moyaanother former Atleti goalkeeper like Molina, He also lived the experience of being a football player on the field: His debut for Valencia in 2009 was as a midfielder in a friendly against Manchester United at Old Trafford, due to an injury to Brazilian Thiago Carletto.
