{"id":8595,"date":"2018-06-14T13:54:10","date_gmt":"2018-06-14T13:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thiruvananthapuramfirst.in\/?p=8595"},"modified":"2018-06-15T10:29:33","modified_gmt":"2018-06-15T10:29:33","slug":"14-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thiruvananthapuramfirst.in\/?p=8595","title":{"rendered":"Kerala’s Naveen Manoharan, the lad with the scorpion kick"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Alappuzha\u00a0 :<\/p>\n

Naveen Manoharan (24), who hails from Varanad in Cherthala\u00a0is now known as Ren\u00e9 Higuita among his friends after his \u2018scorpion kick\u2019 video went viral on social media.<\/p>\n

Higuita is a retired Colombian football\u00a0goalkeeper who was nicknamed \u2018El Loco\u2019 for his high-risk \u2018sweeper-keeper\u2019 playing style and his flair for the dramatic. Naveen, who is a die-hard fan of the Colombian goalkeeper, has been practicing Higuita\u2019s audacious save since his Plus Two days. He started to do scorpion kicks when he became the captain of their village football team Vasco Varanad in Cherthala three years ago.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy home is near the playground of Vasco Club, which has been organizing all-Kerala football tournament for the past 33 years. I started to play at the ground when I was a first standard student. While I was pursuing Plus Two, we had a chapter in Malayalam on Higuita, who wowed the world with his scorpion kick\u00a0 while playing for Colombia against England in 1995. Since then, I became curious, collected his details and watched YouTube video of his saves,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

But, that special kick remained elusive for a while, he admitted. \u201cI tried to do the scorpion kick and failed many times. But I was not ready to go back and I never gave up. Three years ago, I could do it perfectly. The video of my save, which went viral on social media, was shot on Sunday by one of my friends. He and my cousin Abhijith posted it on social media and now my friends call me Higuita,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Naveen, an ITI instrumentation holder, is from an ordinary family and his friends are confident that Argentina will win the World Cup this time.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

In Video:\u00a0This scorpion kick will leave you tizzy<\/a><\/p>\n

source: http:\/\/www.timesofindia.indiatimes.com \/ The Times of India \/ Home> News> City News> Kochi News \/ by Sajimon P S \/ TNN \/ June 14th, 2018<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Alappuzha\u00a0 : Naveen Manoharan (24), who hails from Varanad in Cherthala\u00a0is now known as Ren\u00e9 Higuita among his friends after his \u2018scorpion kick\u2019 video went viral on social media. Higuita is a retired Colombian football\u00a0goalkeeper who was nicknamed \u2018El Loco\u2019 for his high-risk \u2018sweeper-keeper\u2019 playing style and his flair for the dramatic. Naveen, who is … Continue reading Kerala’s Naveen Manoharan, the lad with the scorpion kick<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,14,17,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amazing-feats","category-records-all","category-sports","category-world-opinion"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thiruvananthapuramfirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thiruvananthapuramfirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thiruvananthapuramfirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thiruvananthapuramfirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thiruvananthapuramfirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8595"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.thiruvananthapuramfirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8619,"href":"https:\/\/www.thiruvananthapuramfirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8595\/revisions\/8619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thiruvananthapuramfirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thiruvananthapuramfirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thiruvananthapuramfirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}