Amateur Scores Incredible Bicycle Kick in Messi Charity Game [VIDEO]: Daily Soccer Report

An amateur soccer player, who was brought in to make up the numbers due to a large number of stars dropping out of the Messi & Friends charity game, scored an absolutely incredible bicycle kick yesterday that you have to see to believe.

Thierry Henry chipped a free kick into the box for former college player (and now financial analyst) Matt Eliason to chest the ball before smacking it into the net with a beautiful overhead kick in front of a large crowd in Chicago.

While Eliason continues work as a financial analyst, he’s been practicing playing soccer in the hopes that he can sign a professional contract with a club. So how was this guy overlooked by MLS?!

Here are today’s world soccer news headlines

US soccer

• Amateur soccer player scores incredible bicycle kick in Messi And Friends charity game — Sun Times

Premier League

• Gonzalo Higuain training alone as he waits for Arsenal move — 101 Great Goals
• Chelsea’s Patrick van Aanholt returns to Vitesse Arnhem on loan — Sky Sports
• Why Liverpool’s new kits are a triumph — Back Page Football
• Nelson Mandela’s health could wreck Man City’s pre-season South African tour — The Mirror
• PSV Eindhoven keen to land Man City’s Karim Rekik on loan — Sky Sports
• Cider for breakfast: Watching soccer in America — Sabotage Times
• Jack Butland could swap Stoke for Spain this summer — Sky Sports

La Liga

• Barcelona striker Krkic joins Ajax on season-long loan — FOX Soccer

Football League

• Watford goalkeeper Manuel Almunia signs new one-year contract — Sky Sports
• Crewe Alexandra footballers held over sex attack claims — BBC News

International soccer

• Brek Shea added to USMNT roster after Josh Gatt ruled out due to injury — MLS Soccer

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