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College Soccer Player's Bicycle Kick Goal Deserves ESPN's 'Epic' Praise

Tanna Sanchez-Carreto’s bicycle-kick goal score was still gracing the front of ESPN’s website days after she pulled off the stunt ― and deservedly so. (Watch the clips below.)

The University of Alabama soccer player booted in the acrobatic score in the Crimson Tide’s 4-2 victory over South Alabama in Mobile on Sunday.

The sports network called the goal “epic.”

It definitely lives up to the hype.

Watch Sanchez-Carreto, a freshman defender from Puebla, Mexico, field a corner kick and whip the ball backward overhead and into the far corner of the net.

“The flair of a bicycle kick,” the announcer said.

Flair, indeed. Here’s another look:

This article originally appeared on HuffPost and has been updated.