As a part of LA Galaxy’s Ridiculous Soccer Challenge, former Premier League stars and Liverpool teammates Robbie Keane and Steven Gerrard took on a team of thirty 8-year-olds. The match resulted in a 3-2 win for the duo who lined up in a 0-1-1 formation with no goalkeeper.
The 8-year-olds though lined up in a more attacking formation of 9-10-10 and adopted a more pressing approach. The highlights of the video revealed the professionals making use of their height to take advantage, before dribbling past a host of players to score their goal.
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Gerrard was the first scorer in the game and gave his team the lead.
The 8-year-olds though were no pushovers and came back twice to score the equaliser, before Robbie Keane finally gave them the victory with a well-dribbled finish. Between the pair of them, they have over 200 appearances and nearly 100 goals internationally for England and The Republic of Ireland.
In the MLS this year, Steven Gerrard leads the chart assists chart with 11 to his name, while Robbie Keane has scored in the 2016 season. The opening goal in this ridiculously funny game was a combination of a long ball from Keane and the keeper misjudging the ball, which enabled Gerrard to tap into an open net.
The match was the finale in the LA Galaxy's "Ridiculous Soccer Challenge" series, with the youngsters having played Giovani dos Santos & Gyasi Zardes, Ashley Cole & Baggio Husidic and Jelle Van Damme & A.J. DeLaGarza. This was also the first time LA Galaxy made a clean sweep of four consecutive wins in the LA Galaxy Ridiculous Soccer Challenge – Driven by Chevrolet.
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Robbie Keane and Steven Gerrard played together in the same Liverpool side in the summer of 2008. Keane had arrived from Tottenham for a sum of £19.3m and ended up making only 19 appearances in which he managed to score 5 goals.
The former Republic of Ireland striker recently announced his retirement from international football having represented the national side 146 times having scored 68 times.
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