{"id":8549,"date":"2022-09-11T10:00:44","date_gmt":"2022-09-11T17:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/?p=50000003204"},"modified":"2022-09-10T14:18:31","modified_gmt":"2022-09-10T21:18:31","slug":"long-beach-state-soccer-viral-goal-lena-silano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/news\/long-beach-state-soccer-viral-goal-lena-silano","title":{"rendered":"The story behind an unbelievable Long Beach State soccer goal that went viral"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you\u2019re a sports fan on social media, there\u2019s a good chance that at some point in the last week you\u2019ve seen the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/562sports\/status\/1566638603085574144\">unofficial Goal of the Year in women\u2019s soccer<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>During Long Beach State\u2019s match against San Diego last Sunday at George Allen Field, senior Lena Silano went head-over-heels to deliver an unbelievable bicycle kick goal, tying the match with just over two minutes left. The play was set up with a terrific effort from teammate Elysia Laramie, who got past her defender by playing the ball through her legs before sending in a great assist to Silano.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">WHAT?!?! Elysia Laramie with tremendous work to get by the defense &amp; her cross is finished by an UNBELIEVABLE effort from Lena Silano!! \ud83d\ude33\ud83d\ude33\ud83d\ude33<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re tied, 2-2, 88th minute. Goal of the year candidate? <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NCAASoccer?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@NCAASoccer<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/BSu8dsnNG3\">pic.twitter.com\/BSu8dsnNG3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; The562.org (@562sports) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/562sports\/status\/1566638603085574144?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 5, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Long Beach State head coach Mauricio Ingrassia called it \u201cthe best goal in the history of this field\u201d and was beyond impressed with his players\u2019 effort on the play, which propelled the team to a 2-2 tie to end the game.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe just went up like Air Lena,\u201d said Ingrassia of Silano\u2019s bicycle kick. \u201cIt was pure instinct. She\u2019s a special kid, a special player, and she made a special play.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The goal was Silano\u2019s second of the game and her fifth on the season, which leads the team.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI trusted Elysia to do her thing, and she absolutely did her thing,\u201d Silano said after the match. \u201cShe crossed it to me and I saw it and I was like, \u2018Alright, I\u2019m gonna full send this right now.\u2019 And I full sent it, trusted my instincts, and it went in. I was like, \u2018Oh my God.\u2019&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s like a dream. That\u2019s a soccer player\u2019s dream. That was awesome.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And now it\u2019s a dream that\u2019s been seen by millions of soccer fans around the world. Dozens of media outlets have reposted various angles of the goal <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LBSUSoccer\/status\/1566642298460377089\">captured by Long Beach State videographers<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/562sports\/status\/1566638603085574144\">by The562.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Outlets like ESPN, Sports Illustrated, House of Highlights and even CNN shared the clip on Instagram, TikTok, and elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p>The official SportsCenter Instagram page was one of the first to share The562\u2019s footage, and that video got over 11 million views (and counting) in less than a week. It was the page\u2019s second-most popular video of the month.<\/p>\n<p>On TikTok, the goal is one of ESPN\u2019s most-viewed clips with over 16 million views, 3 million likes, over 50,000 shares and more than 12,000 comments. Dozens of other national sports accounts have reposted the clip and racked up millions of views as well.<\/p>\n<p>This isn\u2019t the first time a Long Beach State soccer play has gone viral. Just three years ago, Angie Morales <a href=\"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/college-corner-angela-morales-and-beach-soccer-go-viral\">made an incredible spin move<\/a>, which made the rounds on social media and on TV.<\/p>\n<p>At this point though, it\u2019s been eclipsed by the video of Silano\u2019s goal, which seems fitting for the best goal a Long Beach State player has ever scored.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/lbpost.com\/news\/poly-highs-susan-watson-earns-statewide-teacher-of-the-year-award<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Long Beach State head coach Mauricio Ingrassia called it \u201cthe best goal in the history of this field.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":282,"featured_media":17256,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_sponsor_sponsorship_scope":"","newspack_sponsor_native_byline_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_native_category_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_style":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_placement":"inherit","inline_featured_image":false,"newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":"","_":"","_author_alias":"","cap-aim":"","cap-description":"","cap-display_name":"","cap-first_name":"","cap-jabber":"","cap-last_name":"","cap-linked_account":"","cap-newspack_employer":"","cap-newspack_job_title":"","cap-newspack_phone_number":"","cap-newspack_role":"","cap-user_email":"","cap-user_login":"","cap-website":"","cap-yahooim":"","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_email_html":"","newspack_email_type":"","newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_hide_page_title":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_show_share_buttons":"","newspack_sponsor_byline_prefix":"","newspack_sponsor_disclaimer_override":"","newspack_sponsor_flag_override":"","newspack_sponsor_only_direct":"","newspack_sponsor_url":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[223],"tags":[4],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"coauthors":[2623],"class_list":["post-8549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-lbsu-athletics","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/282"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8549\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8549"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_spnsrs_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_spnsrs_tax?post=8549"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=8549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}