3 seconds and 80 cents – Corriere.it

It only takes a few seconds to make history. And that’s what he did Joachim Giardinacaptain of SC Mazarese, a team that on Sunday 12 February challenged Nissa for the Sicily Championship of Excellence.

The referee Mantranga from Palermo blows the kick-off whistle and Giardina, a central defender born in 1988, shoots from midfield. He draws an incredible trajectory and the ball slips into the net in just 3 seconds and 80 cents. For the history of Italian football it is the fastest goal ever while it is included in the top 10 of the fastest goals in the world. «I made it big, I didn’t think I had achieved this great goal, I was shocked when I found out. With a clear head and looking back at the video, I saw that I had done something extraordinary that will remain in football annals,” he said in an interview with Fanpage.it.

He beat Leao

Giardina even beat Rafael Leao. Yes just like this. Because until Sunday 12 the record in Italy was all of the Portuguese of Milan, who in December 2020 during Sassuolo-Milan it took him 6.76 seconds to score
: «I managed to beat the record of a great footballer. Clearly both for me and for my humble career that I have made up to now, what happened is a source of great pride. Why did I try? I had never done that. He favored me that breath of wind that was in Marsala that Sunday and the goalkeeper, I realized he was out of goal and so I tried ».

The technical prowess

In short, a stroke of genius. A technical feat: «My aspirations? I will continue to train daily as I always have but above all I will continue to play as long as my body allows me to. I also recently started the course as a UEFA C coach thus continuing to cultivate my passion for football,” he concluded. Giardina is in his second consecutive season with Mazarese. He collected 45 appearances in Serie C with Igea Virtus, 138 appearances and 10 goals in Serie D with the shirts of Messina, Vibonese, Perginese and Marsala and over 250 appearances in Excellence with Villafranca, Torregrotta, City of Messina, Marsala, Riviera Marbles, Sant’Agata, Mazara, Akragas and Mazarese. And four championships won. And now the record for the fastest goal in Italy.