I got a bug on my second football game on Saturday, when I was told to change Simon and the scene kept repeating, i play compressed version
so this is probably the hardest task in this whole game. Save before attempting, you cannot exit if you cannot score the goal. I guess if you download the cheat file it will remove the soccer game event completely... not sure.
How to win this? Well try and try again. if you just started the match there is only 1 real ball and you start with it and probably get stripped by the super fast NPC. If you continue playing this game on your second attempt there are 2 soccer balls. you have 1 and one of the NPCs will have other. The ball you have is fake that's why nothing happens. So you simply ignore your ball and go after the NPC with the ball. If you get the real ball a circle will appear at your opponent penalty box that's where you need to take the ball and score a goal and hello Beth story.
There is no easy way of doing this, the super fast NPC is on you like flies on sh*t. Hopefully you lose the ball to some slower NPC and then try to create seperation between you and Super Mradona NPC. Then simply strip the ball of off the slow NPC and score the goal before your shadow catches up. Thats how I was able to do it, good luck