On November 11, 2009, Hartford Hawks goalkeeper Nenad Cudic found himself defending his goal against a penalty kick in a shootout that would take his team to the finals of the America East championship tournament.
In an attempt to put off the Stony Brook shooter, Berian Gobeil Cruz, Cudic tried a tactic not often seen: he turned cartwheels on the goal line before the shot.
Gobeil Cruz was unphased and tucked the penalty home. He then made sure Cudic remembered what he had done forever by turning cartwheels in celebration right in front of the goalkeeper.
Video of the event became a YouTube sensation, with Cudic making the Sportscenter Not Top 10 plays and Gobeil Cruz getting high marks on Pardon the Interruption on ESPN.
On Wednesday night, Daniel Tosh of Comedy Central's Tosh.0 gave Cudic a chance to redeem himself.
Tosh first interviewed Cudic in a bar, where Cudic said he was amazed he didn't punch Gobeil Cruz in the face.
Then Tosh took Cudic out to the pitch, where a group of youth players took shots on a tiny goal with Cudic goalkeeping. The kids mostly got the better of Cudic.
But the real redemption came against American soccer hero Brandi Chastain, who famously removed her jersey after scoring the winning goal on a penalty for the United States in the 1999 Women's World Cup.
Cudic used a number of distraction techniques and finished by saving a shot that went to about the same place that the shot against Stony Brook had.
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