In the last round of voting…

Ronaldinho’s solo goal against Haiti in 2004 upset Neymar’s volley against Mexico in the 2013 Confederations Cup, managing 55% of the vote:

Kaká’s opener against Egypt at the 2009 Confederations Cup scooted past Paulinho’s long-range shot against Uruguay in a 2017 World Cup qualifier, with 65% of the vote:

Éder’s game-winning goal from the opening match of the 1982 World Cup got 91% of the vote over Rivelino’s clinching goal in the 1989 World Cup of Masters final:

And Oscar’s goal against Belarus at the 2012 Olympic Games beat out Daniela’s opener against Norway in the 2008 Olympic quarterfinal, with 71% of the vote:

You can peruse the whole bracket here.

Now for…

TODAY’S VOTING

Up first is another one of our top seeds. Kaká left his mark on a 2006 friendly win against Argentina with this end-to-end sprint, nicking the ball from a young Lionel Messi and then leaving him in the dust to cap a 3-0 win.

(Speaking of Kaká, his performance for AC Milan against Manchester United in 2007 is the subject of Michael Cox’s “Revisited” column this week on The Athletic. “This was the perfect distillation of what Kaka was all about,” he writes.)

It faces another goal to advance from the preliminary round. Ronaldo’s solo goal against Denmark in a 1996 friendly with the U-23 team capped off a 5-1 win:

In the space of little more than eleven months, Adriano scored three huge goals in finals against Argentina. The first one has already featured in the bracket, the second one wasn’t nominated (😢), and the third was this incredible, minute-long team move that capped off a spectacular 4-1 win in the 2005 Confederations Cup final.

It’s up against a left-footed smash from Roberto Carlos, beginning a comeback from 2-0 down to draw the Netherlands in a 1999 friendly:

Gabriel Jesus opened the scoring in last summer’s Copa América semifinal against Argentina, though much of the plaudits have to go to Dani Alves for his outrageous show of skill that opened up the Argentine defense.

It faces Zico’s scissor kick against New Zealand in the 1982 World Cup group stage, which you can watch below with Luciano do Valle’s narration, or here if you care about boring things like “good video quality”.

Our last matchup features a pair of goals against Colombia. First up is David Luiz’ free kick from the 2014 World Cup quarterfinal, which ended up making the difference in a thoroughly Pyrrhic 2-1 victory.

It faces this volley from Willian, which opened the scoring in a 1-1 draw in World Cup qualifying in 2017.

Let’s see if we can’t get this round of voting done by Friday night.