{"id":276194,"date":"2025-11-10T21:10:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T21:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/276194\/"},"modified":"2025-11-10T21:10:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T21:10:09","slug":"stunning-icicle-kick-by-david-rodriguez-wins-canadian-premier-league-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/276194\/","title":{"rendered":"Stunning icicle kick by David Rodr\u00edguez wins Canadian Premier League final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Atletico Ottawa secured a Canadian Premier League final victory unlike any other, a snow-globe spectacle amid a swirling blizzard featuring what online media outlets dubbed an &#8220;icicle kick&#8221; from Mexican midfielder David Rodr\u00edguez.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Hosts Ottawa beat Cavalry FC with a 2-1 extra-time win in Sunday&#8217;s title decider in temperatures of minus 8 degrees Celsius with snow so heavy that play was halted every 15 minutes to clear the lines, and goalkeepers used shovels to carve out their boxes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">There was a 60-minute delay after normal time ended to plough the pitch.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Cavalry struck first when Fraser Aird, playing in short sleeves, converted a penalty in the 33rd minute, celebrating with a snowy knee slide.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Rodr\u00edguez scored the breathtaking equaliser seven minutes later, with his stunning bicycle kick that thundered off the underside of the bar and into the net.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Rodr\u00edguez was not done, as he chipped the ball over Cavalry goalkeeper Marco Carducci in the 107th minute to seal his place in Canadian soccer history.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">&#8220;I came to the locker room and I was excited. I saw it was snowing, and I was like &#8216;It&#8217;s going to be a good day,'&#8221; Rodr\u00edguez told reporters.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Cavalry veteran Sergio Camargo said the snowstorm made for conditions unlike anything he had experienced.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">&#8220;I had experience playing in snow in my college years,&#8221; Camargo told reporters.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">&#8220;But nothing like that, where the snow was that thick and that difficult to dribble and manipulate the ball. It was the factor for both teams, so not an excuse. 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