Dániel Zsóri in the running for Puskás Award!

That player is Dániel Zsóri, whose last-minute scissors kick for Debrecen against Ferencváros in February has put him up against the likes of Lionel Messi and Zlatan Ibrahimovic in the competition for football's most prestigious recognition of a goal for an individual.

The reduction of the shortist from ten to three is voted for by the public on the FIFA website between now and midnight on 1st September, but first, prospective voters must register in the FIFA Club. Following this public vote, the three most popular goals will then be assessed by a group of 'FIFA Legends' before a winner is decided upon.

Zsóri's goal came in his first ever OTP Bank Liga match, moreover in the 93rd minute and which completed his side's recovery from a goal down to an ultimate 2–1 victory against a club which would eventually win the Hungarian championship that season.

The 18-year-old was born in Oradea in Romania (Nagyvárad in Hungarian) and moved to Békéscsaba in Hungary in 2010, where he played for five years as a youth. He was spotted there by representatives of the Debrecen Football Academy, who offered him the chance to move to the club. Zsóri performed so well in the youth set-up that he was called up to train with the first-team squad towards the end of the 2018-19 winter break and was then handed his debut on 16th February. He subsequently told the club's website that his overhead kick was no fluke and that he'd practised such moves since childhood.

Awards for the goal have already come the young player's way, Hungary's RangAdó Gala featuring his goal as the best of last season, again as voted for by the public. So far, Zsóri has played 15 top-flight matches for Debrecen but hasn't added to his single-goal tally.