Always one of the toughest things to accomplish on a football pitch is a diving header. Should it be scoring or making a fantastic setup, the diving header rarely gets its due for its incredible ...

Word on the street is that headers can lead to brain damage. Huh? I didn't catch that. I still have a headache from that diving header I took in a Sunday match two months ago. All joking aside, ...

Goalkeeper Joao Carlos scored a very unlikely own goal over the weekend when he was scrambling back to the net and accidentally knocked in a diving header off a clearance attempt by one of his ...

Two MLS sides met in the Leagues Cup on Sunday where a diving header decided the match between Sporting KC and Chicago Fire. The hosts pulled off a 2-1 comeback thanks to some impressive heroics from ...

The Athletic’s writers have chosen their top three goals scored by the clubs they cover and over the next three weeks, will deliver a piece on each of them. When they have finished, you can vote for ...

It's a semi-common warm-up among NHL teams to juggle a soccer ball before games. I'm not sure where the practice came from, but it's been done by more than a couple clubs, and there seems to be some ...

JOHANNESBURG – Even though Lionel Messi baffled Nigeria‘s defenders, Argentina still had to sweat out Diego Maradona‘s first World Cup victory as a coach. Gabriel Heinze scored on a diving header in ...

Jorge Campos was a part-time goalkeeper and part-time striker. This wasn't way back in the early part of the 20th century when soccer was just trying to figure out what it was and players could do any ...

Seattle Sounders striker Roger Levesque’s late goal to beat D.C. United was voted AT&T Goal of the Week for Matchday 16. The diving header at the far post connected with a Fredy Montero cross in the ...

MADRID (AP) — Victor Reis scored with a diving header in injury time to give Girona a 1-1 home draw against Getafe on Monday and extend its unbeaten run to four matches in the Spanish league. Girona ...

And artists around the world recognized it, memorializing the Robin Van Persie diving header against Spain and applying their own imagination. Here are the best ones out there: ...