Ronaldo acknowledges Oscarine Masuluke’s goal, despite losing to Giroud
Masuluke, who was nominated for FIFA's Puskas Award, lost to Arsenal's Olivier Giroud.
POLOKWANE – With the entire province, country and continent supporting him, Oscarine Masuluke narrowly missed out on becoming the first African to win the FIFA Puskas Award.
Read more: Baroka FC’s Oscarine Masuluke nominated for 2017 FIFA Puskas Award
Giroud came out tops with his ‘scorpion kick’, over Masuluke’s ‘bicycle kick’.
Read more: [WATCH] Baroka FC’s Oscarine Masuluke chats about his Puskas nomination
During the award ceremony, the best player in the world, Christiano Ronaldo gave credit to Masuluke, saying his goal was ‘great’.
Christiano Ronaldo gave credit to #OscarineMasuluke goal 🥅 too pic.twitter.com/u4Krzcn9Nm
— Azania Afrika (@SAYoungLion) October 23, 2017
Review spoke to Baroka FC’s Marketing Manager, Richard Mashabane who says the team got together to watch the awards last night and they are very proud of Masuluke.
“We are extremely proud of Oscarine. Being the first South African to ever be nominated, he has not only made the country proud but the continent too,” he told Review.
Fans took to Twitter to show their support for the goalkeeper, with many agreeing that he made the country proud.
#PuskasAward we wouldn't care-less who they've given it to, #OscarineMasuluke is our African winner..!
— Simangaliso (@Smings99) October 24, 2017
Proud moments for me, that goal was amazing. #OscarineMasuluke
— Black pride (@snegugu_wayne) October 24, 2017
We are so proud of you! #OscarineMasuluke
— Cassandra Bianca (@cassandrabianca) October 24, 2017
https://twitter.com/CoolooAfrica/status/922707575258472448
Many others, however, said the reason Oscarine didn’t receive any votes was due to the high cost of data in South Africa.
@MTNza @vodacom @cellc your data prices costed #OscarineMasuluke not to win #PuskasAward. Enough is enough #DataMustFall
— Lloyd Waka Khosa (@lloyd_khosa) October 24, 2017
We officially blame Service providers and their high data cost for #OscarineMasuluke missing out on the #PuskasAward oh and Pie-rats fans
— Shane Louw (@shane_da_louw) October 24, 2017
https://twitter.com/Unathi_007/status/922680394734022657
We blame @MTNza @CellC @TelkomZA @Vodacom for #OscarineMasuluke not winning
— Somi (@SomieVili) October 24, 2017
Despite not winning, all South African’s should be proud of his nomination and for putting the country on the football map.
