U.S. Open Cup

Giroud? Mkhitaryan? Luis Solignac joins list of scorpion kick goal-scorers

Within a span of a week last December and January, Manchester United's Henrikh Mkhitaryan and Arsenal's Olivier Giroud each submitted sublime scorpion-kick goals as their entries for 2016-17 Premier League Goal of the Year honors. 


Well, Fire forward Luis Solignac took a page from their book to perhaps claim U.S. Open Cup Goal of the Year, somehow delivering a scorpion-kick strike of his own for the game's only goal as the Fire bounced Saint Louis FC from the historic tournament Wednesday night. 


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Watch the goal from every available angle in the video above, courtesy of U.S. Soccer, and join us in tipping our caps to the 26-year-old Argentine. A nod also is deserved to Brandon Vincent, whose pinpoint left-footed service has already set up multiple goals for Nemanja Nikolic this season and now can lay claim to yet another memorable assist. 


Needless to say, @LuchoSoli's Twitter mentions were blowing up following the goal: