Emotional: FIFA awarded the Puskas award to Marcin Oleksy, the amputee player who got ahead thanks to football [Video]

FIFA’s The Best award brought one of the most emotional and special surprises of this 2023 when Marcin Oleksy, a player in the first division in the amputee soccer league in Poland, won the Puskas award for the best goal of the year 2022. .

Oleksy earned the award by beating Brazilian Richarlison, who scored a scissor goal for Brazil at the Qatar 2022 World Cup against Serbia, and Dimitri Payet, an Olympique Marseille player who hit a volley from outside the area in a UEFA Conference match. League against PAOK from Greece.

In the case of the Polish striker, during a match between Warta Poznan vs. Stal Rzeszow, Oleksy decided that the best way to finish off a cross was to launch himself without support from the Chilean crutches to splice the ball and wow those present.

On that occasion, on November 8, the goal quickly went viral on social networks and it was not only the fans who asked for his Puskas Award nomination, but also the media from all over the world and even entities such as UEFA or the FIFA itself praised the category of the score.

An anthology goal but: Who is Marcin Oleksy?

Although Oleksy became known worldwide at the age of 35 thanks to the goal for which he was awarded, his history in amputee soccer dates back several years.

Regular in his work as a road worker from a very young age, at the age of 23 he suffered an unfortunate accident on a construction site in which a machine crushed his legs, leaving the need to amputate his left leg.

Despite the difficulty of recovery, which sent him to a wheelchair for two years, Oleksy knew how to get ahead and, in addition to continuing his work on construction sites, he decided to venture into football for amputees: he had previously been a goalkeeper but found a refuge in the sport that he has been practicing since 2019.

In this way, Oleksy replaces Erik Lamela as the current winner of the Puskas award for the best goal of 2021. On that occasion, the Argentine left-handed shocked everyone by scoring a great goal from rabona during a match against Arsenal.