VIDEO: Wilfried Zaha Celebrates Training Ground Goal as if He Just Won the World Cup

Published on: 11 March 2017

Crystal Palace star Wilfried Zaha celebrated scoring a goal during training as if he had just scored in the World Cup final.


The 24-year-old skipped past a teammate, then accelerated explosively towards the goal and provided a cool left foot finish into the far bottom corner, before running all the way to the corner flag on his own to celebrate.

⚡� @wilfriedzaha absolutely loves ⚽.

Tag a mate who over-celebrates during a kickabout!  pic.twitter.com/kxqZ9ouy5C

Zaha has made 247 first team appearances for the Eagles, scoring 32 goals in two different spells with the London based club.


the Ivory Coast winger signed for Manchester United in 2013 for £10m, but his career at Old Trafford never really got going, only making four first team appearances and was eventually re-signed by Crystal Palace for £3m in 2015.

Zaha has been capped five timesfor the Ivory Coast and scored one goal. He featuredat the 2017 Africa Cup of Nations, but the Elephants were surprisingly knocked out at the group stage, not winning a single game at the competition.


Here are some reactions on twitterto Zaha's training ground goal and celebration:

@CPFC @wilfriedzaha This was definitely me when I was 14 #throwback


@CPFC @wilfriedzaha got to practice the celebrations for all the goals you gonna score to keep us up


@CPFC @wilfriedzaha lol love the passion, red and blue through his veins!


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