The scorer of June 2025 is called Paul Nebel. His beautiful shot in the Toreck in the U-21-European Championship final against England gets most voices.
Happiness and bad luck are sometimes close together in life. Paul Nebel (22) has to experience this very directly on June 28, 2025 in the final of the European U-21 European Championship. He is lucky in the 61st minute when the Mainz has a lot of space in the 16 of the English after a corner. Relatively unexpectedly, he shoots the ball from 13 meters into the right goal corner. The shot is deflected and still touches the fingertips from England’s goalkeeper.
The bad luck meets fog just 32 minutes later when he hits the crossbar in the fourth minute of stoppage time. The ball is still slightly deflected by an opposing player, otherwise it would have become a goal – and fog to the hero of the tournament.
But everything is different, the English do it 3-2 and become European champions. “In football it is the case that sometimes you lack luck,” said Nebel sadly into the microphone after the game.
33 percent for fog
But only a little later the happiness returns to Paul Nebel. It comes in the form of a small golden medal from the sports show and owe this to the young midfielder 40,048 football fans, who choose his goal with 33 percent of all votes for the goal of the month.
Serdal Celebi from FC St. Pauli (23 percent), who as a blind footballer, succeeded in a solotor with an impressive dribbling, and Sydney Lohmann, whose distance shot in the game of the German national team against Austria, ended up in second and third place.
Still to be expected
For Paul Nebel, the European Championship was also a success without a title. Not only does he become the 571st goal scorer of the month at such a young age, but in addition to Nick Woltemade, he is also considered the great discovery of the tournament. So you can still expect a lot from the youngster – maybe here again at the goal of the month.
Source: Red/Markus Wessel