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Roberto Gabriel Trigo: Footballer Who Brought Down A Plane With A Football Shot by Nobody: 9:20pm On Aug 19, 2022
Roberto Gabriel Trigo, a retired football player from Paraguay, is probably the only man alive who can say that he shot down a small plane with a football.

The legend of the football kick that brought down a plane has been doing the rounds through the locker rooms of Paraguayan football clubs for six decades. Some say it happened during an official game, others that it was during a practice, but they all credit the same man – Roberto Gabriel Trigo.

He was 17 years old at the time and playing as a right back for the now-defunct General Genes football club of Asuncion. Annoyed by a small plane flying low over the local football field, Trigo allegedly kicked the ball outwards, hitting the aircraft’s engine and causing it to crash in an open field, just 200 meters away.

“He always flew over during games or practices and I told him in Guarani (an American language): ‘anive reyu upeicha, because roityta’, which means: ‘don’t do this anymore, or I’m going to hit you with a ball I kick’, andhe was dying of laughter because he was my friend,” Trigo told EFE a few years ago.

The man flying the plane was Alfredo Lird, a big fan of General Genes and a man Trigo knew very well. He had a habit of flying very low over the football field during practices and official games, and they always joked about kicking down his plane. No one actually thought Trigo could do it though, until the day he did.

The former footballer, who turned 80 this year, doesn’t recall every detail from the day he became a legend in his own country, but he does remember that it was February of 1957, during a game against the Presidente Hayes football club.

Lird was flying low, as usual, and after a corner kick by the opposing team, Roberto Gabriel Trigo took the ball low and kicked it upwards in the direction of the small airplane. He didn’t think he would actually hit it, which made seeing it crashing down that much more shocking.

For a little while the game was stopped. I panicked. They took me and made me drink cold water and they poured it on my head. They told me: ‘don’t worry, nothing happened at all, the pilot is fine’. So I started to calm down,” Trigo recalled.

The footballer learned that Lird had a little boy with him in the plane, but, despite crashing into a nearby open field, both had escaped uninjured. Once things settled down, the game resumed, and Trigo’s team actually won with the score 2 – 0.

“Lird didn’t get angry with me, we were friends and we always joked that at some point I was going to hit him with a ball if he passed over us again with his plane. The problem is that we never thought it would happen actually,” Don Trigosaid.

Trigo’s feat made news headlines in all of Paraguay, and the story of him shooting down a plane with a kicked ball soon became an immortal legend. The General Genes club no longer exists, but everyone still knows about Roberto Gabriel Trigo, the footballer who shot down a plane.

Source: https://www.odditycentral.com/news/meet-the-footballer-who-once-brought-down-a-plane-with-a-football-shot.html

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Re: Roberto Gabriel Trigo: Footballer Who Brought Down A Plane With A Football Shot by iamyemiakins(m): 9:25pm On Aug 19, 2022
Oshey, football bandit grin

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Re: Roberto Gabriel Trigo: Footballer Who Brought Down A Plane With A Football Shot by Onucs(m): 9:27pm On Aug 19, 2022
Legend!

The man with an iron foot smiley

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Re: Roberto Gabriel Trigo: Footballer Who Brought Down A Plane With A Football Shot by thesicilian: 9:33pm On Aug 19, 2022
Name your price sir, I have a job for you at Abuja

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Re: Roberto Gabriel Trigo: Footballer Who Brought Down A Plane With A Football Shot by Wawelexy(m): 9:37pm On Aug 19, 2022
His shot is still learning from Sunday Oliseh...

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Re: Roberto Gabriel Trigo: Footballer Who Brought Down A Plane With A Football Shot by JASONjnr(m): 10:11pm On Aug 19, 2022
Legends.....

Old and retired.... Compare to one bent looking old Nigerian politician....

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Re: Roberto Gabriel Trigo: Footballer Who Brought Down A Plane With A Football Shot by BlackPantherxXx: 10:39pm On Aug 19, 2022
Wawelexy:
His shot is still learning from Sunday Oliseh...

Oliseh dey learn from Rashidi Yekini.

Oliseh scored that lonnng straight ruler shot against Spain but Yekini was a beast!

Yekini almost uprooted the goalpost when his bullet shot crashed against the crossbar against Egypt in Tunisia '94.

A silly class mate said the goalkeeper was shouting " Allaaaaahu Akbar Allahuuuuuu" when that shot hit. grin

The weyrey didn't tell us how he heard on-field conversation. He was notorious for telling tall tales.

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Re: Roberto Gabriel Trigo: Footballer Who Brought Down A Plane With A Football Shot by dawnomike(m): 10:44pm On Aug 19, 2022
The Legend of the Kungfu Hustle footballer

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Re: Roberto Gabriel Trigo: Footballer Who Brought Down A Plane With A Football Shot by Aidejay(m): 10:46pm On Aug 19, 2022
unbelievable!

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Re: Roberto Gabriel Trigo: Footballer Who Brought Down A Plane With A Football Shot by wiseone28: 11:00pm On Aug 19, 2022
Wetin we no go read for this life

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Re: Roberto Gabriel Trigo: Footballer Who Brought Down A Plane With A Football Shot by MMempire(m): 11:43pm On Aug 19, 2022
Kunfu football bandit.

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Re: Roberto Gabriel Trigo: Footballer Who Brought Down A Plane With A Football Shot by Peritome: 1:34am On Aug 20, 2022
Killer shot. So had it been a human, the human would have died.

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Re: Roberto Gabriel Trigo: Footballer Who Brought Down A Plane With A Football Shot by Nobody: 2:29am On Aug 20, 2022
I'm sure that's not the image of the plane from 1957.

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Re: Roberto Gabriel Trigo: Footballer Who Brought Down A Plane With A Football Shot by Udejohnchi(m): 4:33am On Aug 20, 2022
Omo the man get better shot be that na

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Re: Roberto Gabriel Trigo: Footballer Who Brought Down A Plane With A Football Shot by Irupetepete: 4:54am On Aug 20, 2022
Original kung-fu hustle

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Re: Roberto Gabriel Trigo: Footballer Who Brought Down A Plane With A Football Shot by Starboytwo(m): 5:15am On Aug 20, 2022
I remember that year, I was so good with the ball the whole hood call me baller.

If I start to dey jog ball like this, just find one bench siddon, we ain’t never drop the ball.

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Re: Roberto Gabriel Trigo: Footballer Who Brought Down A Plane With A Football Shot by DaInferno(m): 6:28am On Aug 20, 2022
thesicilian:
Name your price sir, I have a job for you at Abuja
150-200k cheesy

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Re: Roberto Gabriel Trigo: Footballer Who Brought Down A Plane With A Football Shot by Skibani99(m): 6:54am On Aug 20, 2022
You say what now

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Re: Roberto Gabriel Trigo: Footballer Who Brought Down A Plane With A Football Shot by DevilSignature: 7:16am On Aug 20, 2022
grin
Re: Roberto Gabriel Trigo: Footballer Who Brought Down A Plane With A Football Shot by wagazala: 7:27am On Aug 20, 2022
I can imagine how low the plane would have been flying.

But to talk about Trigo, the power of the hit, speed of the ball to have actually made a damaging impact on a moving plane. This man try. Na true Legend.

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Re: Roberto Gabriel Trigo: Footballer Who Brought Down A Plane With A Football Shot by Chaos14: 7:50am On Aug 20, 2022
It reminds me of this movie shaolin soccer

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Re: Roberto Gabriel Trigo: Footballer Who Brought Down A Plane With A Football Shot by dayleke: 8:19am On Aug 20, 2022
Olasyke:
I'm sure that's not the image of the plane from 1957.

You see and reason am too? shocked

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Re: Roberto Gabriel Trigo: Footballer Who Brought Down A Plane With A Football Shot by techWriter3: 8:23am On Aug 20, 2022
Oshey, football robber

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Re: Roberto Gabriel Trigo: Footballer Who Brought Down A Plane With A Football Shot by atimadesign(m): 8:37am On Aug 20, 2022
A legend

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Re: Roberto Gabriel Trigo: Footballer Who Brought Down A Plane With A Football Shot by Nick08130(m): 9:19am On Aug 20, 2022
thesicilian:
Name your price sir, I have a job for you at Abuja

80k-100k

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Re: Roberto Gabriel Trigo: Footballer Who Brought Down A Plane With A Football Shot by Oberhiri141(m): 9:22am On Aug 20, 2022
Lird now sabi control plane joor, na heart attack make am fall not the hit of the short. Pilot don get high bp before the ball reach e side
Re: Roberto Gabriel Trigo: Footballer Who Brought Down A Plane With A Football Shot by mespusinglez(m): 9:36am On Aug 20, 2022
NA SHOALIN SOCCER?

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Re: Roberto Gabriel Trigo: Footballer Who Brought Down A Plane With A Football Shot by 9jaBloke: 9:57am On Aug 20, 2022
smiley

I wish it was caught on video.

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Re: Roberto Gabriel Trigo: Footballer Who Brought Down A Plane With A Football Shot by Nobody: 10:00am On Aug 20, 2022
The pilot useless. Ordinary ball

Anyways legends must be fulfilled

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Re: Roberto Gabriel Trigo: Footballer Who Brought Down A Plane With A Football Shot by engrchykae(m): 10:08am On Aug 20, 2022
Wawelexy:
His shot is still learning from Sunday Oliseh...
Emmanuel emenike, Rashidi yekini,taiye taiwo

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