Volitional victory: the essence of the term and significant matches

Volitional victory is quite a rare phenomenon in different sports. To achieve a strong-willed victory, the team must show a very strong character and stamina, a desire to achieve the desired result by all means. In such matches, the leadership qualities of individual performers and the strength of the spirit of the collective as a whole are very often manifested.

Volition victory in football - what is it?

Perhaps, people far from sports can not immediately understand the essence of the term. The fact is that sometimes teams have to apply will, strength to victory and when the score is 0: 0. For example, you can recall the match of the second round of Euro-2016 between the teams of France and Albania. Until the 90th minute kept an equal score, although the French had a significant advantage. In the time compensated by the arbitrator, the future finalists of the home Euro were able to score two unanswered goals. But this is not a strong-willed victory!

The use of such a sporting term is appropriate only if the team that concedes the victory wins the victory. Let's say that in a friendly match between the national team of Ukraine and Romania before the Euro 2016 Romanians opened the account in the 22nd minute of the fight, but in the end, Ukrainian athletes won 4: 3.

Strong wins in the finals of major tournaments

The largest tournaments in football are:

• The world championship;
• Europe championship;
• European Cup;
• UEFA Cup (League of Europe).

In the history of world football there are several matches with strong-willed victories, which were remembered by fans for decades and can be cited as an example for educating the character of young athletes.

Let's remember the ending of the World championship of 1930 between Argentina and Uruguay. Of course, the participants of that match and the fans who visited that final are no longer alive, but this was the first serious kambek in the final. The Argentines in that match were the first to open the account and won the first half - 2: 1. Fans of football know perfectly well that the first champions were Uruguayans. In the second half, they hit the gate of their opponents thrice and won 4: 2.

Final Championships 1998/1999, in which because of total bad luck in the first semifinal with the "Bavaria" did not play "Dynamo" Valery Lobanovsky, remember, probably, all the fans over 23-25 years old. Forward "Bavaria" Mario Basler in the 6th minute played a free kick around the wall. Goalkeeper Manchester United Edwin van der Sar was unable to parry this blow. The Mancunians attacked a lot during the whole match, but could not beat the legendary Oliver Kahn. The outcome was 90 + 1 and 90 + 3 (that is, the time compensated for the second time), when Ole Gunnar Solskjaer and Teddy Sheringham scored twice after the corner. The victory of "MU" with a score of 2: 1 forever remained in the hearts of football fans.

In 2005, there was an even heavier strong-willed victory. In the final, Champions League met "Milan" and "Liverpool". The Italian team in the first half scored three times in the gates of the British, without missing a single ball. It seemed that the team of Andrey Shevchenko would not let the opponent go. But what happened on the field from the 45th to the 60th minute, otherwise than as a miracle you will not name. After losing the first half of the first half Merseyside were able to recoup and bring the case to a series of penalties in which they won.

Soviet and Russian soccer teams

The strong-willed victory of the Russian national football team, unfortunately, does not occur very often. And this problem is rooted in the Soviet past. But there are bright pages!

For example, let us recall the long-forgotten 1952 Olympic Games. In the 1/8 finals the USSR team played with Yugoslavia. After the first half, we lost to the south 0: 4. At the beginning of the 2nd half, the score was 1: 5, but thanks to the efforts of Vsevolod Bobrov and Vasily Trofimov, the USSR team achieved the right to replay, equalizing the score on the 89th minute.

Of course, there were strong-willed victories in the Russian team. In 2015, the Russians held a friendly match with Belarus. The Russians opened the scoring in the 20th minute. But then forward of the Kazan "Rubin" Sergei Kislyak twice scored in the goal of Igor Akinfeev, but as a result, the players of the Russian team managed to three more times break through the defense of Belarus. A strong-willed victory is also counted in that case.

National team of Ukraine

The first victory with the will of the Ukrainian team was recorded on May 18, 1993 in Vilnius. Lithuanians opened the account on the 4th minute, and the Ukrainians scored on the 18th and 22nd minutes. On May 25, 1994, Ukraine hosted Belarus. The first half ended with a score 0: 1, but then the Ukrainians managed to score 3 goals in the second half. September 6, 1995 in the official match-selection for Mundialyu-1998 Lithuanians also scored first at home and won the first half. This fact did not prevent Ukrainians in the second half to send 3 balls to the gate of the Baltic states. The third strong-willed victory over the Lithuanians was achieved in Kiev on August 13, 1996. Victor Leonenko equalized the score on the 45th minute (1: 1), and the match eventually ended 5: 2 in favor of Ukraine.

Sports betting

As you know, you can make money by making successful bets on sports. Basically, players put on the victory of guests or hosts, a draw, the number of goals scored. But there are other options. What is a "strong-willed victory" in bets? If you think that Dynamo (Kyiv) - Shakhtar (Donetsk) will win the Dynamo, but the miners will be the first to score, you can safely put on the strong-willed victory of the people of Kiev. If the game ends this way, you can pick up the winnings.

A strong-willed victory in football (what it is, we considered in the article) is always a beautiful and exciting spectacle.