fifa.noJSVideoMessage Sometimes there is no other solution to a problem than to simply try, try, and try again. Hlompho Kekana’s wondrous, outrageous goal for South Africa against Cameroon is testament to that.
With the scores locked at 1-1 in their CAF Africa Cup of Nations 2017 qualifier, the midfielder produced a strike from the very top drawer of his repertoire, beating N’dy Assembe from well within his own half. Dispossessing Aurelien Chedjou on the right flank, without taking another touch, he thumped the ball with such exceptional precision it arrowed through the air to leave the goalkeeper without the faintest of chances.
To look at it in isolation, it seems an opportunistic fluke. However, the groundwork had been well laid for this goal. “I have been trying to score such goals at my club, but could not,” Kekana said at full time, reflecting on four months of wayward efforts. “At training, I would hit more than ten balls with none going in and it was frustrating.
“I always c..
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