VIDEO: Bicycle kick goal which won Puskas Award 2023
Botafogo-SP defender Guilherme Madruga won the Puskas Award for 2023 after an impressive bicycle kick from the edge of the box against Novorizontino in June 2023.
Every year, 11 goals are initially nominated to choose one of them to be named the best goal of the year and receive the FIFA Puskas Award. Prior to the gala these 11 nominees are whittled down to three finalists, from which the winner is announced at The Best FIFA Football Awards ceremony.
This year the three finalists for the award were Brighton & Hove Albion's Julio Enciso, Botafogo SP's Guilherme Madruga and Sporting Lisbon's Nuno Santos. In the end it was the Brazilian team's defensive midfielder who emerged as the winner after Madruga executed a superb overhead kick from outside the box, which dipped just under the crossbar.
"After the game I watched the video of the goal again and only then did I realise what I’d done. My brother and I looked at each other and I said: “Bro, did I do that?," said Botafogo SP's midfielder. Check it out.