Gonzales, top scorer, naturalization ....

Christian Gonzales was the phenomenon in the history of the Indonesian league. His sturdy’s body did not withdraw his capacity to scored the goals in the Indonesian league. He prooved that as he became a top scorer in the last three seasons of Indonesian league.

Gonzales was the specter who was frightening for the goalkeepers. There was the worried feeling that emerged if they faced Gonzales. What kind of trick wiil he showed to penetrate the goal, what kind of kick will he used to appoint the net, and how will his head put the ball to the net. Matters of that kind apparently always raged in thoughts of each goalkeeper who will be faced with the Persik Kediri, and Persik Kediri was lucky to had Gonzales, the reason meaning that their goalkeeper did not need to not sleep to think about the method of warding off the Gonzales intensity.

On Sunday, July 27 2008, Gonzales came back to exhibited the sharpness of his foot and his head. For the first time in Indonesian Super League (ISL) happened trigol or hattrick. And the actor was Christian Gonzales. He three times conquered Agus Murod that actually at that time guarded the goal of PSIS Semarang brilliantly.

His second goals in fact a superb goal, because he did that with the acrobatics action. Accepted an assist from the left of the field, Gonzales, instead of kept the ball, he accepted this ball with the outside side of his left foot, made the ball bounce beyond the opposing back and afterwards he pursued the ball and wiped out with the execution of his left foot. If it might be said, the goal is look like the goal that was created by Pele in the World Cup 1958 in Sweden.

Currently, the Gonzales name again settled in the top list of the ISL goal scorer with Cristiano Lopez (Pelita Jaya). Would Gonzales proove himself again as top scorer for the fourth time? We could not answer that now, because it’s far away from the end of the competition, but if we saw what was presented by Gonzales, apparently that not something that was impossible to be done. However apart from this question, in fact had one more question that interested the Indonesian football community, that is: was Gonzales prepared to be naturalized to reinforce timnas Indonesia?

Well just wait...

Rigan Agachi

There was something that interesting when watching the live duel of the Persik Kediri vs PSIS on Sunday on July 27 2008. Not trigol that was scored by Christian Gonzales. Not also the superb goal by Danilo Fernando’s shot. And that was not blunders decision of the bald Markus Horison or the brilliant performance of Agus Murod, or the first appearance of Ahmad Kurniawan after he’s got the long injury.

It was Rigan Agachi, who had the full name Muhamad Rigan Agachi that stole attention. He was not the player one of the two teams that were competing. He at the time only a commentator on the match. What made him to be special was a piece storied about Rigan Agachi.

Around six or seven years ago, Rigan was a talented young Indonesian player. He was said as a future full back for the national Indonesian team, with his posture that was high, skill, as well as his speed.

Rigan, at that time was predicted by the observers of national football as the replacement for Kurniawan Dwi Julianto, as an Indonesian player that will play in Europe competition. For information, the team that was reinforced by Rigan at that time was PSV Eindhoven junior, and he was predicted immediately can take part in competing in Eredivisie with his capacity.

However when the year passed by and there was no news again from the windmill country, public also as though forgetting the Rigan name. Rigan Agachi seemed to disappear, but his name rised again when the national Indonesian team held the concentration of the exercise for Asian Games in the Netherlands. Together with the Irfan Bachdim name, a young Indonesian descendants who reinforced Utrecht junior, the Rigan name was remembered again. People began to asked information about him, was he still progressing in the Dutch country? Still he in PSV Eindhoven? News also began to be springing, and that was startling, spread the news if Rigan evidently has been dismissed from Eindhoven resulting from the theft of the age. And his tracks then again disappeared.

And once again the year passed by, when finally Indonesia agreed to continue trend that was circling in Hollywood, make a reboot (or in easy language is make a restart) old movies, like Batman became Batman Begin or James Bond became Casino Royale, then PSSI (Indonesian Football Association) also rebooted his competition from the Indonesian League to Indonesian Super League (ISL). And at that time the Rigan name rised again, although not as a player. Rigan came back at this time with the status as a commentator.

The question is, will Rigan status be permanent? Or Rigan will at the right time come back appeared to field. Apparently time that will give the answer. Whatever, for this moment, we could say ”Welcome back Rigan Agachi”