Tuesday, November 7, 2017

US Soccer Announcers need a goal celebration catchphrase .... ASAP


I saw this video making its way around the internet after Asensio's goal against Las Palmas. As much as I love Ray Hudson, his stick really only works for like three players. Messi, Ronaldo, and Neymar. If you watch that video, there is a distinct guttural sentiment that is missing from the English speaking commentary as compared to the Portuguese or Spanish that was in there. They have cornered the GOOOOOOOOL market. Fair play to them. They were the first movers and now own that beach front real estate in perpetuity. It made me think two things: 1) we need more goals like this in US Soccer. MLS, USL, NWSL, NASL or whathaveyou. We need this. 2) US commentators needs some sort of catchphrase. We need to spice it up a bit. Listening to Phil Schoen is kind of blah. Great announcer but we just need more. Something that's ours. 

Now, I know what everyone is thinking. We tried Gus Johnson and he was worse than Chris Wondolowski in front of an open net. We need to be insular and come up with this in the soccer community. Every Giovinco goal, Sydney Leroux piledriver, etc having something uniquely ours calling the action. It's all about branding people. We need to raise the profile and its starts in the commentary booth. 

The first catchphrase I thought off comes from outside of soccer and from our friends on the ice. "Well Johnny, didn't you just say it has to come from the soccer community?" Yes, yes I did. To be honest, had a short lapse of memory there after thinking about a great Doc Emerick call. Sue me. Anyways. Hearing Doc Emrick with a solid playoff hockey "HE SHOTS, HE SCORES!" with his voice squeaking like a pubescent teenager is all time. It gets the hair on the back of your neck standing up whether you like hockey or not. Its simple and its unique. We need this for our game. 

I don't have the answer to what this catchphrase should be. Watch the goal below and go with your instinct. Yell whatever comes to mind. Let's workshop here. I think this would be a massive step in building the brand.  



PS: Que golazo indeed. Christ. 

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