Bizarre Scene Hits One Billion Views / Scissor-Style Flip on Ice in Canada's Kolak League!

David Rodriguez's scissor-style flip in bizarre circumstances in the Canadian league drew attention.

According to "Sports Three", David Rodríguez created an artistic masterpiece in a blizzard and minus 8 degrees with his scissor kick and by recording the historic championship of Atlético Ottawa in the Grand Final of Canada, he recorded his name in the history of this competition.

Football in very harsh weather conditions often creates strange scenes, but the final of the Canadian Premier League (CPL) crossed all the boundaries of believability. Amidst a blizzard and with thermometers reading minus 8 degrees Celsius, Atletico Ottawa's Mexico midfielder David Rodriguez scored a spectacular scissor kick against Cavalry FC. The move immediately earned the nickname "Ice Punch," blew up on social media, and has already garnered more than a billion views worldwide.

The decisive race in Ottawa was on the verge of being canceled due to the intensity of the blizzard that covered the field in just a few minutes. The game was stopped every 15 minutes so that the staff of the stadium, with the help of the goalkeepers themselves, who were holding shovels, cleared the snow from the ground and redrew the lines of the field. Before the start of overtime, it became necessary to use a snow blower.

Despite the weight of the ball and the lack of enough friction on the frozen ground, David Rodriguez defied the laws of physics in the first half. After sending a long ball into the penalty area, the Mexican adjusted his body and curled the ball into the top corner with a perfect backhand to level the game at 1-1 and leave the defenders pinned in the snow. Rodríguez was not satisfied with this spectacular and viral goal and shone again in overtime and scored the winning goal in a 1-2 victory to seal the unprecedented championship of Atlético Ottawa.

The combination of this technical move with the exhausting atmospheric conditions made the video of this goal one of the biggest viral phenomena in the history of contemporary sports. This spectacular goal, which was shared by major international media such as Fox Soccer, went beyond the scope of Canadian football attention and by collecting hundreds of millions of interactions in the virtual space, it once again turned the Canadian Premier League into one of the most important topics of discussion in world football.