Goals around the world in advance of World Cup 2014
Reuters photographers on every continent, in countries from China to the Czech Republic, went out to capture images of soccer goalposts used by players to practice the “beautiful game.”
- Grass grows in front of a goalpost in downtown Zagreb, Croatia on June 2, 2014. (REUTERS/Antonio Bronic)
- A soccer goalpost stands in a sports field in Lincoln Park in Chicago on May 30, 2014. (REUTERS/Jim Young)
- A soccer goalpost stands in a field of FC Real in Kreuth, southern Germany on June 1, 2014. (REUTERS/Lukas Barth)
- Goalposts stand in a public soccer pitch in Berlin, Germany on June 1, 2014. (REUTERS/Thomas Peter)
- Goalposts stand in a soccer field flooded by the waters of the Paraguay River in Asuncion, Paraguay on May 30, 2014. (REUTERS/Jorge Adorno)
- A soccer goalpost stands half buried in the ground after a major flood, at a stadium in Nemila, Bosnia and Herzegovina on June 3, 2014. (REUTERS/Dado Ruvic)
- Children play soccer on a playing field in Kirtipur, Kathmandu, Nepal on May 31, 2014. (REUTERS/Navesh Chitrakar)
- Sheep graze in front of a soccer goalpost in Shuto Orizari, a shantytown near the capital Skopje, Macedonia on June 4, 2014. (REUTERS/Ognen Teofilovski)
- A man plays soccer with migrant workers from Bangladesh and India at a street soccer court near a workers’ dormitory (behind) in Singapore on June 3, 2014. (REUTERS/Edgar Su)
- A makeshift soccer goalpost stands near Molweni, west of Durban, South Africa on June 5, 2014. (REUTERS/Rogan Ward)
- A worker walks past a soccer goalpost at a playing field in Kamnik, Slovenia on June 2, 2014. (REUTERS/Srdjan Zivulovic)
- Two men kick a ball on a soccer field in front of a coking plant in the western city of Bottrop, Germany on June 2, 2014. (REUTERS/Ina Fassbender)
- A broken soccer goalpost stands on a pitch in Wythenshawe Park near Manchester, northern England on March 29, 2014. (REUTERS/Phil Noble)
- A goalpost is painted on a wall at a house used as a creche in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico on June 3, 2014. (REUTERS/Jose Luis Gonzalez)
- Men pose for a photograph in front of a goalpost in the Castro-Castro Prison in Lima, Peru on June 2, 2014. (REUTERS/ Mariana Bazo)
- A man removes a netball goal from in front of a painted soccer goalpost at Chestnut Grove School in Balham, south London on June 3, 2014. (REUTERS/Stefan Wermuth)
- A kite flies above a goalpost at a playing field in a slum on the outskirts of Sao Paulo, Brazil on June 5, 2014. (REUTERS/Paulo Whitaker)
- A boy jumps to save a goal while playing soccer at Shivaji Park in Mumbai, India on June 3, 2014. (REUTERS/Danish Siddiqui)
- A local man trains on a goalpost at an athletic field at twilight in the town of Divnogorsk outside Russia’s Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk on June 2, 2014. (REUTERS/Ilya Naymushin)
- Players for “The Tuesdays” pose in a soccer goalpost at a training ground in Balham, south London on June 3, 2014. (REUTERS/Stefan Wermuth)
- A night football league player kicks a ball into a goal at the Westway Sports Center in London on June 3, 2014. (REUTERS/Suzanne Plunkett)
- A boy jumps to save a goal while playing soccer on the beach in Benghazi, Libya on June 1, 2014. (REUTERS/Esam Omran Al-Fetori)
- A boy with a cricket bat gestures while playing near a soccer goalpost in a slum in Karachi, Pakistan on May 30, 2014. (REUTERS/Akhtar Soomro)
- A Swiss airline jet flies over a goalpost on a soccer pitch as it approaches to land at Zurich Airport in the town of Kloten, Switzerland on May 31, 2014. (REUTERS/Arnd Wiegmann)
- A soccer goalpost stands on a pitch in Luwan Sports Center in downtown Shanghai, China on May 30, 2014. (REUTERS/Carlos Barria)
- A photograph taken using long exposure shows a goalpost which has been illuminated with torches at a leisure facility in front of the European Central Bank (ECB) headquarters in Frankfurt, Germany on June 1, 2014. (REUTERS/Ralph Orlowski)
- The city skyline is seen through a soccer goalpost in Toronto on May 27, 2014. (REUTERS/Mark Blinch)
- A goalpost stands in Duillier near Geneva, Switzerland on May 30, 2014. (REUTERS/Denis Balibouse)
- In a photograph taken using long exposure, a goalpost is illuminated by a flashlight at the Harpur’s Hill housing estate in the town of Coleraine, Ireland on May 28, 2014. (REUTERS/Cathal McNaughton)
- A soccer goalpost stands at Pescadores beach in Chorrillos, Lima, Peru on June 2, 2014. (REUTERS/Mariana Bazo)
- A goalpost stands in Cretelongue jail in Granges near Sion, Switzerland on May 30, 2014. (REUTERS/Denis Balibouse)
- A soccer goalpost stands in a field in the Vedado neighborhood of Havana, Cuba on June 1, 2014. (REUTERS/Enrique De La Osa)
- Dogs walk past a goalpost on a foggy morning in the town of Lipljan, Kosovo on June 3, 2014. (REUTERS/Hazir Reka)
- A woman walks her dog past a soccer goalpost beside the Arakawa River in Tokyo on June 1, 2014. (REUTERS/Yuya Shino)
- A man walks a flock of geese past a soccer goalpost in Shuto Orizari, a shantytown near the capital Skopje in Macedonia on June 4, 2014. (REUTERS/Ognen Teofilovski)
- Children play in front of a soccer goalpost on a sports court in the Villa Urquiza neighborhood of Buenos Aires, Argentina on May 30, 2014. (REUTERS/Enrique Marcarian)
- A cathedral is seen through a soccer goalpost in Locorotondo, south of Bari, southern Italy on May 31, 2014. (REUTERS/Alessandro Garofalo)
- A cow stands in front of a soccer goalpost in a field in Monnickendam, Netherlands on June 4, 2014. (REUTERS/Michael Kooren)
- Children practice their soccer skills in front a goalpost in Tunks Park in Sydney, Australia on May 28, 2014. (REUTERS/David Gray)
- Children play near a soccer goalpost in a field in Olching near Munich, southern Germany on June 3, 2014. (REUTERS/Michaela Rehle)
- A soccer goalpost stands in a sports field in Somerville, Mass., on June 2, 2014. (REUTERS/Brian Snyder)
- A goalpost stands in the village of Sasek Maly near Szczytno, north-eastern Poland on May 31, 2014. (REUTERS/Kacper Pempel)
- A goalpost stands in the Independencia neighborhood of Monterrey, Mexico on June 6, 2014. (REUTERS/Daniel Becerril)
- Boys play soccer in a schoolyard in Minsk, Belarus on June 4, 2014. (REUTERS/Vasily Fedosenko)
- A soccer goalpost stands in a field in Rabat, Morocco on June 3, 2014. (REUTERS/Youssef Boudlal)
- A goalpost stands in a field on the outskirts of Ronda, near Malaga, southern Spain on June 5, 2014. (REUTERS/Jon Nazca)
- A goalkeeper jumps to save a goal during soccer practice in Vipolze, Slovenia on June 3, 2014. (REUTERS/Srdjan Zivulovic)
- Soccer goalposts stand in a playing field in Hackney Marshes in east London on May 25, 2014. (REUTERS/Russell Boyce)
- A goalpost stands in a public training ground in Bern, Switzerland on June 1, 2014. (REUTERS/Ruben Sprich)
- A goalpost is seen behind of the old Metropolitan Cathedral of Managua, Nicaragua on June 4, 2014. (REUTERS/Oswaldo Rivas)
- A soccer goalpost stands in Southorn playground in Hong Kong on May 30, 2014. (REUTERS/Tyrone Siu)
- A man jumps to save a goal at dusk on a field in Bucharest, Romania on June 1, 2014. (REUTERS/Bogdan Cristel)
- Boys stand next to a soccer goalpost in Sayidka in southern Mogadishu on June 2, 2014. (Reuters/Feisal Omar)
- A goalpost stands in a sports field in Guernica, Basque Country, Spain on June 4, 2014. (REUTERS/Vincent West)
- Bedouin children play soccer in the village of al-Sira, one of the dozens of ramshackle Bedouin Arab communities in the Negev desert which are not recognized by the Israeli state, in southern Israel on June 2, 2014. (REUTERS/Ronen Zvulun)
- Dogs run past a soccer goalpost at dusk in Madrid, Spain on May 29, 2014. (REUTERS/Sergio Perez)
- A boy plays with a ball in front of a soccer goalpost in Juba, Sudan on June 2, 2014. (REUTERS/Andreea Campeanu)
- A teenager plays soccer in front of a goalpost in an open area at the defunct Smokey Mountain garbage dump in Tondo city, metro Manila, Philippines on June 5, 2014. (REUTERS/Romeo Ranoco)
- A soccer goalpost is seen in front of housing blocks in the district of Konkovo, Moscow, Russia on June 3, 2014. (REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov)
- A goalpost stands in an abandoned soccer field on the outskirts of Prague, Czech Republic on May 31, 2014. (REUTERS/David W Cerny)