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In a Sporting Kansas City match last Wednesday, defenders Kevin Ellis and Saad Abdul-Salaam departed from their usual halftime warmup routine.

After a few easy passes back and forth, Ellis lined up in front of the goal, and the concept became pretty simple — Abdul-Salaam took a series of shots, and without using his hands, Ellis attempted to prevent them from going in the net.

On his third or fourth attempt, Abdul-Salaam lofted a shot that hit the far left post — you can probably see where this is going — before he watched ball trickle across the goal line.