Roberto Baggio in 1990 taking on the entire Czech team to score a fantastic individual goal.

In the "All the goals of Italy 90" VHS that I've watched a billion times with Les Murray narrating, thereafter in the rest of the video, any other goal that was remotely similar was referred to "a Baggio type goal"

The Divine Ponytail had arrived (and also got in the Guinness Book of World Records for the largest transfer fee at the time of 18M or something)


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Brilliant run and finish. Baggio- "Il Divin Codino" yeah i prefer the Italian
You are very close mate Juve payed Fiorentina €12 million OR 19 M in '90 which was indeed a WR fee. That is a far cry from today's player fees of the current crop of stars. €12 M will get u a young star but no where near enough for stars at Baggio's level
That goal from Al Owairan is definitely world class

That SA goal is pretty awesome, but the best goals ever scored in the World Cup were all the goals Australia scored in 2006!!! :lol:

Hey perthboy001, I said "or something" ;)
It was off the top of my head from a memory 20 years ago. I was close enough :P
(and wasn't it pounds, not euros?)

Yeah its cool mate thats what i meant by "You are very close".
To be Honest i am not familiar with pounds I think they did record it all in pounds (they being FIFA/FA etc) But i know that thats what it was with Euros.

It must have been in pounds as the euro wasn't around in 1990.