Competing With Minamino And Son Heung-min, Leading Ragnar Oratmangoen In AFC's Best Goal Nominations

JAKARTA - The Indonesian national team player, Ragnar Oratmangoen, was included in the list of the best goal nominations in the first and second matches of the 2026 Asian Zone World Cup Qualifiers. In that list, Oratmangoen competes with famous names, such as Takumi Minamino and Son Heung-min.

Ragnar was included in the list thanks to the goal he made when the Indonesian national team held the draw against Saudi Arabia 1-1. Apart from being an important goal for the Garuda Squad, the goal process was also quite beautiful.

Oratmangoen took an individual action with penetration from the right before entering the penalty box. After that, he fired a left foot kick which even though he had touched Sandy Walsh, the referee scored the goal by Oratmangoen.

The goal then received attention from the AFC by including him in the list of best goal nominations on the first and second matchday of the 2026 Asian Zone World Cup Qualifiers.

In his article, the AFC says selected goals don't always have to be beautiful. But an important and historic goal like the one scored by Oratmangoen.

"There are special goals and there are also historic goals," wrote AFC on its official website quoted on Wednesday, September 18, 2024.

"Not the most impressive goal aesthetically, but Ragnar Oratmangoen's deflected attempt to finally help Indonesia secure important points in Jeddah that show and cannot be denied that the Southeast Asian team deserves to be on this stage," the statement continued.

The goal scored by Oratmangoen was indeed an important and historic goal. The reason is, thanks to this goal, the Indonesian national team was finally able to steal points at the headquarters of Saudi Arabia.

Oratmangoenn is included in the first and second matchday best goal list for the 2026 Asian Zone World Cup Qualifiers who compete with seven other players.

A total of eight goalscorers are included in the list. The other seven names are Takumi Minamino, Harib Abdalla, Mousa Al Tamari, Oston Urunov, Son Heung-min, Hassan Kadish, and Kang Kuk Chol.

The winner of the category will be determined by the most voting from Asian football certificates on the AFC official website.

The vote ended on September 17, 2024. Ragnar Oratmangoen has collected the most votes with 62 percent, followed by Mousa Al Tamari (Yordania) with 34 percent.

Meanwhile, Minamino, Son Heung-min, Oston Uronov (Uzbekistan), Kang Kuk-chol (North Korea) got one percent of the votes. Finally, Harib Abdalla (United Arab Emirates) and Hassan Kadish (Saudi Arabia) were silent.