Sports books & GOOOAL

[G S C]

In the early 1970s, J(oseph) P(riestly) McCarthy, of WJR-AM (760) radio
in Detroit, began occasionally playing a tape recording of an announcer
(non-U.S.) who announced soccer goals with a drawn-out pronunciation of
goal.  McCarthy was impressed with the passion with which the announcer
noted that a goal had been scored.  May have been the Argentinean
announcer mentioned in Barry's post.

Selection #2 (goal for Argentina), at the following site, gives a sense
of the extended goal statement.  The author of the RealPlayer selection
is Marcelo Araujo, and the date is 1994.
http://www.geocities.com/Colosseum/1862/iargsnd.html

The passion of the voice of Muñoz is presented in selection #10 (but not
Goooaaal), at the above site.

Information about Andres Cantor, mentioning his "unique yell of
Gooooaaal" is presented at:
http://www.lacancha.com/longcant.htm


George S. Cole   gscole at ark.ship.edu
Shippensburg University