Crossbar Challenge
Walkiria Osuch
Western Washington Toyota Dealers will donate $1,000 to RAVE Foundation for every crossbar hit on the pitch during the Toyota Crossbar Challenge, plus another $10 for every crossbar hit on the concourse pre-match!
Following the announcement of its high-profile Air Max 95 collaboration with Nike, London-based streetwear leader Corteiz is now giving fans the opportunity the chance to win a pair of the sneakers for free, if they can complete a successful crossbar strike from outside an 18-yard box.
Each year, FC DELCO hosts a crossbar challenge at the end of our fall season to raise money for a charity that is close to all of our hearts. This year, we are raising money for the Chester Upland Youth Soccer Association to provide strength through soccer. Chester Upland Youth Soccer strengthens the communities it serves by mentoring youth, engaging families, and promoting healthy living.
Please take videos of your crossbar challenge and share them with socia...@fcdelco.org. If you would like to post your crossbar videos, please tag us, and use the hashtag #fcdelcocrossbarchallenge
Recognising this, his chief sponsors, Nike, sought to make the World Cup winner a main feature of a number of adverts, but one particular commercial video stood out above the rest: the crossbar challenge.
While standing outside the box, and still doing kick-ups, Ronaldinho appeared to launch the ball onto the crossbar of the goal, at just the right angle, so that the ball would come right back to him where he then kept it under his control.
The challenge involved fans attempting to kick a football through a number of holes within the sixty second time limit. The challenge had been renamed almost every season, along with the props and background music for the feature. The other studio guests all have the opportunity to attempt to score as well. Its various guises through the years include:
The Soccer AM Soccerette was a feature of the show for several years. A young woman modelling a Soccer AM T-shirt, which was redesigned each season acted as a competition prize. Viewers can win the T-shirt by guessing the number of goals scored by the "Fans of the Week" in their team challenge later in the show. The Soccerette was introduced by the male presenter and was asked a series of questions that almost inevitably led into premeditated gags and innuendo.
The Crossbar Challenge is a feature that involves a weekly trip to the training ground of a British league football team. The entire squad, including willing coaching staff and managers, are filmed, one-by-one, introducing themselves and attempting to hit the crossbar of the goal from the halfway line. The feat is rarely accomplished - the majority of squads fail to hit the bar once. However, a successful strike generally provokes manic celebrations by the kicker and his teammates. The original background music is the instrumental "Seventeen Years" by Ratatat but this was changed to "Smiling" by The Beta Band.
The current record is held by Wolverhampton Wanderers who hit the crossbar four times on 25 April 2009. The current player record is held by Graham Stack who has hit the bar three times for three different clubs (Wolves, Plymouth and Millwall).
The You Know The Drill challenge was introduced in 2015. It is also a pre-recorded section that involves a weekly trip to some training grounds and stadiums. Jimmy Bullard presents this part with willing coaching staff and managers by demonstrating ball shooting techniques before he challenges every member of a football team for a goal-scoring battle, to determine the winner with the most goals scored by the points. The end of the segment is the decision for the winner of this challenge, alongside a catchphrase of Bullard saying "Football's always the winner!". A live version of the segment where Fenners presents this part from the car park with Jimmy Bullard demonstrating ball shooting techniques. Then Bullard challenges every guests, such as professional and legendary footballers, willing coaching staff and managers, as well as celebrities, for a goal-scoring battle within the sixty second time limit, also to determine the winner with the most goals scored by the points.
Borne out of the link between professional footballers and golf, "The Ten-Yard Bucket Challenge" sees a professional footballer attempting to chip a golf ball into a bucket from a distance of ten yards. The football-golf link exists due mainly to the amount of free time footballers are allowed in the daytime after training sessions, and Soccer AM's homage to golf involves a single personality from the world of football who attempts the challenge. One notable attempt was from Ryan Taylor, then of Tranmere Rovers, who was not featuring in the challenge that week, but was accompanying teammate Jason McAteer. While cameras happened to be rolling, he had a go and accomplished the feat in a single attempt. Many overconfident amateurs have been known to run tallies of well over a hundred attempts. The background music to the challenge is "Ladyflash" by The Go! Team.
In order to participate, players must first register individually or as a team and make a $5 donation to the HEADstrong Foundation. Players are then challenged to take 5 attempts to hit the crossbar from the 18-yard box. They can ask a friend, teammate, or parent to record the attempts and they are encouraged to then upload the video to social media using #CrossBarChallenge and tagging @HEADstrongFND. In order to encourage others in the soccer community to get involved, players should also tag 3 friends to get in on the challenge. During registration, participants will also automatically receive a fundraising page that can be shared with family, friends, and followers! This is an ongoing campaign that will officially kick-off on December 1, 2020.
One lucky Valley Gold member or Jackpot Ticket purchaser is given the chance to take part in the Valley Gold Crossbar Challenge. The competition is simple, take one shot, hit the crossbar in front of the Covered End and win a cash prize.
The prize starts at 500 and will increase each matchday by 500 until the crossbar is struck. If a participant is successful, the prize reverts back to 500 at the following match.
You and your friend each get 2 attempts to kick a ball and hit the crossbar of the goal posts. Whoever hits it the most wins. The probability of you hitting it on your 1st attempt is 30% and on your second attempt is 50%. Your friend has a 40% chance of hitting it on both attempts.
The commercial in promotion of Nike's Tiempo boots saw Ronaldinho take part in a twist on the crossbar challenge, with the then-Barcelona hero hitting the crossbar three times in succession on fictional television channel 'Joga TV'.
Remaining faithful to the classic advert, Foden appears in the shot, ties the laces of the new Corteiz x Nike Air Max 95 trainers, and then thunders the ball against the crossbar on three consecutive occasions.
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