Guilherme Madruga, player of Botafogo SP, was in charge of scoring one of the best goals of this last half. The 22-year-old Brazilian scored a Chilean goal 20 meters from goal to defeat Grêmio Novorizontino 1-0 in the 14th round of Rio de Janeiro's Serie B.
As expected, Madruga's dazzling definition had a great impact on social networks. So much so that some have already nominated him as the winner of the FIFA Puskás Award, an award created in 20009 in honor of Ferenc Puskás and which recognizes the best goal of the year.
"There are still 6 months until the end of the year, but Guilherme Madruga from Botafogo SP has just won the Puskas 2023." "Hello FIFA. Midfielder Guilherme Madruga scored a great goal with a bicycle kick, worthy of the Puskas Award." And "We already have the first contender for the Puskas prize. Golazo!!!", are some of the comments of users on Twitter.
The play began with a lateral center of Botafogo. Then, while the 36th minute elapsed, Madruga won the dispute of the ball to an opponent and managed to score that spectacular goal.
It is also worth clarifying that Guilherme, if he wins the award, would join a select group of Brazilian footballers who won the trophy.
Who are the Brazilian footballers who won Puskas?
So far, only two players have been able to keep the trophy. One is Neymar and the other is Wendell Lira. After 2015 Brazil could never win the Puskas again.
The first to win it was Neymar in 2011, who scored the third goal of the match against Flamengo after a wonderful collective move. The match had ended 5-4 in favour of Santos, and, at the time, the current PSG player was praised by FIFA with the award.
In 2015 Wendell Lira scored a true Chilean that took all the flashes in the match between Atlético Goianiense 1-2 Goianésia.