🎥 The Great Debate: Who scored the best long-range goal ever? | OneFootball

We’ve all seen Harry Kane’s strike by now, right?

In case you haven’t …

But what’s the best goal ever scored from downtown?

Lewis Ambrose

Ever heard of German midfielder Moritz Stoppelkamp?

If it rings a bell, it’s probably because he did this for Paderborn a few years back, scoring the longest-range goal in Bundesliga history.

Absolutely outstanding.

Dan Burke

It has to be Cristiano Ronaldo’s Puskás Award winning strike against Porto in 2009 for me.

What the hell was he doing shooting from there?

Alex Mott

Context is everything when it comes to great goals and there can be no greater long range effort than this from Gabriel Batistuta.

He’s playing away, at the home of the European champions, gets the ball 40 yards from goal and turns Jaap Stam – at that point probably the best centre-back in world football – and then rifles it past Mark Bosnich.

Stupendous.

Matt Frohlich

Despite the fact I thoroughly enjoyed Harry Kane’s wonder strike, it’s not the best long range goal ever. That, for me, goes to Dejan Stankovic (22:48 in the above video).

With 25 seconds gone in the Champions League tie between Inter Milan and Schalke back in 2011, Manuel Neuer must have thought he’d made a brilliant headed clearance just outside his own box – only for to Stankovic produce one of the best volleys ever, with incredible technique, on the full, from the half way line.

It didnt even bounce once.

Pádraig Whelan

This is everything a long-range goal should be.

A strike didn’t appear to be on for St Pat’s forward Conan Byrne when the ball rolled his way out wide in his own half.

One beautiful swing of the right boot later, it was in. Bonus points for landing straight in the netting too.