It’s not every day you see a football goal reach the very top spot of Reddit’s very front page. But this, folks, is not your everyday football goal.
No, this is the acrobatic Emre Can wonder-strike that left the internet in tears.
Can, if you’re not familiar with him, is a 23-year-old German football pro who plays for England’s storied Liverpool club.
Liverpool beat Watford 1-0 on Monday night – thanks to this bit of absolute brilliance from Can just before halftime.
The stunning score quickly shot to the top of Reddit as football fans watched it again and again and again.
But the internet wasn’t done there – oh, no.
For example, here’s Can’s goal set to the music from Titanic. Even better, right?
And here’s more sampling of the conversation.
There were also lots of bad puns using Can’s last name and exclamations about what he can do (get it?), but we’ll let those be.
Now if you’ll excuse us, we need to go watch his goal about 13,409,171,232 more times.
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