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You Will Never See An Own Goal More Dumbfounding Than This Tahitian Goalkeeper's

A shot too perfect to have been unintentional, yet not replicable in the slightest.

This is some truly once-in-a-lifetime stuff, here. The Tahitian soccer team, which you may remember from being total badasses by scoring a highly improbable goal (we're talking about a country of 183,645 people, total) in the 2013 Confederations Cup, has gone and scored another highly improbable goal. This one is maybe a little less heroic, if also a lot more memorable. That is because it's perhaps the craziest own goal in the history of own goals.

In an Oceania Champions League match between Fiji-based club Nadi and Tahitian club AS Tefana, the Tahitian national team's regular goalie Mickael Roche (AS Tefana) was dealt the ball from a throw-in and bobbled it something good. He must have been trying to pass it to someone across the goal—a bad idea in its own right—when he rolled the ball neatly through the hair-thin margin between the posts and into his own net. Seriously, it's hard to believe he was attempting anything else, based on how perfect it was. Even if he tried to do that again—or for the first time—there'd be no way he could. It's dumbfounding, awe-inspiring, and someone needs to try him out at striker.

[h/t Deadspin]