His name doesn’t sound familiar. However, since Monday, Samuel Soares has been talked about in his native Portugal, and on social networks. In the match against Liga Vitalis, the second tier in Portugal where reserve teams can play, this 20-year-old goalkeeper achieved a real feat.
In the closing game of the twelfth day on Monday, his team was allowed to reserve Benfica Lisbon To equalize in Trofa. Led by the local Trofense team in the score since the 32nd minute, the Portuguese goalkeeper inherits a ball right in front of his penalty area.
Then Samuel Soares tried to make a completely crazy gesture. Shoots an unreal shot 100 meters from the opposite goal. The ball rises in areas and then falls on the crossbar. On the ground, Trofense goalkeeper Miguel Santos sees the ball bounce off him and scores his own goal. Then we play in the 65th minute and the Benfica reserve can level the score with this genius stroke.
Seventeen minutes later, Benfica’s reserve, where former Messin Leni Lacroix (19) plays, snatched the win with a goal from Luis Semedo (1-2). A success that allows Benfica to remain in third place in a tournament dominated by Moreirense and to overtake the reserves of Porto in fourth place.
Samuel Soares arrived at Benfica in November 2020 and has yet to play a single second in the Portuguese First Division. Ironically, the goal was not attributed to Samuel Soares but to Trovenzi goalkeeper Miguel Santos, who scored his own goal. In the statistics, this genius stroke never appeared, but Benfica supporters will remember it for a long time.
