Football may be among the easiest and simplest sports in terms of laws and game controls. All you have to do is score goals against your opponent and not receive goals in your goal to guarantee victory. However, this principle flipped into one game that became among the most famous confrontations in the recent history of the game that spans dozens The years.
In early 1994, the Barbados-Grenada match in the Caribbean Cup qualifiers witnessed strange events that ranked the match at the top of the list of the strangest in history.
Before the start of these qualifiers, the organizers included an amendment stipulating that all matches must end with a winner.
The Barbados and Grenada teams entered the match with three points in their balance. The Barbados team needed to beat Grenada by two goals in order to qualify for the finals, while the draw will lead the two teams to play two additional games.
The Barbados team won 2-0 until the 83rd minute of the match, before Grenada reduced the score to 2-1, and with the approaching end of the match, the Barbados players realized that their chances of achieving two goals decreased, so one of them resorted to an unexpected solution.
The Barbados goalkeeper Horace Stott was surprised to see his defender Terry Sealy put the ball into the net in the 87th minute to make the score 2-2, which means the two sides resorted to extra runs.
After moments of silence, the Grenada players realized the scheme and, in turn, tried to avoid the extra runs by a strange solution that was only to score in their goal to give victory to Barbados 3-2, a result that would qualify for Grenada.
Here the match data turned, and each team defended the opponent's goal to prevent him from conceding, and in the end he smiled to Barbados, who managed to maintain the result of the tie and pass to the extra stages.
Barbados decided the match by scoring an additional goal in the second half to end the match 4-2 thanks to the goal goal with two goals.
Grenada coach James Clarkson expressed his anger after the end of the match, and said, "We were cheated, the person who proposed these amendments should enter the madhouse. The players were confused and did not know which direction to attack, in football they are supposed to score against the opponents to win, not for them." .
The goal base was used two goals five times during the 1994 Caribbean Cup qualifiers, before being abandoned and canceled in the matches that followed.
It is noteworthy that the last copy of the Caribbean Cup was played in 2017, after which the teams of the region joined the CONCACAF Cup, which brings together North and Central America and the Caribbean.