Naples, 29 July 2021 – A few weeks after the blue triumph in the “magic night” of Wembley, Lorenzo Insigne collects another important laurel as a corollary of a season to be framed. The goal scored by the blue winger against Belgium in the quarter-finals of Euro 2020 was in fact voted as second best goal of the year on the UEFA website. On the first step of this virtual podium, with 30% of the total preferences, he finished instead Mahdi Taremi of Porto, with the overhead kick signed in the return leg of the quarter-finals against Chelsea. Third, however, Keemar Roofe of the Glasgow Rangers, with the goal scored in the groups of the Europa League against Standard Liège
The shooting round
The gem of the Neapolitan attacking exterior came thanks to the now famous and unmistakable trademark of the “shooting around”, rightfully entered in the iconography of the Azzurri fans, so much so that it even earned the singing tribute from the band Turin “Eugenio in Via di Gioia” – who wrote a song that along the lines of the musical motif of “O sarracino” – but also a prestigious place in the vocabulary of Treccani who coined the term “tiraggiro” to define precisely a shot made by hitting the ball in order to give it a strong return effect.
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