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Golfers have known this for a very long time
Scientists have agreeably concluded that Roberto Carlos's 1997 free kick against France - a seemingly impossible blast into the back of the net from 115ft - was not the fluke some have claimed. While hapless French keeper Fabien Barthez might have taken solace from the thought that perhaps a gust of wind had accounted for …
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im waiting for all the overweight none sporties to say about who cares etc...
btw - anyone who can play football above junior school level can bend the ball like crazy... its not hard, although the distance on that one was a bit special. its genreally what shows up most none-playing footy commentators as they are amazed that you can do this... its just simple outside of the boot stuff really.
also, carlos does have massive leg muscles, im sure he could knock a wall down with one of his shots! :)
read what i wrote. its easy to bend it. what was special about that was the power and final curl the ball got and the distance, naturally.
i only said what i said as every article ive seen so far on the reg that mentions football someone (if not many people) always go on about who cares about football etc. i was just being pre-emptive...
and who cares that i invented a word. this isnt a bloody dissertation is it? i also dont bother to add apostrophes as im generally in a rush and i imagine people on here are intelligent enough to understand what i write.
"read what i wrote. its easy to bend it. what was special about that was the power and final curl the ball got and the distance, naturally."
You sir are a moron. The entire point of the article was that it was only the final curl that was special, the rest was entirely standard.
"and who cares that i invented a word."
You didn't invent a word. You are just wrong. I also wasn't aware that it takes so long to press the Shift key that you cannot possibly squeeze it into your busy life. How about you stop speaking youre branes on here, since you are in such a rush?
>>overweight none sporties
So you are saying that people either play football or are overweight none sporties?
You do realise there are other sports? Have a look at the Olymics for instance, lots of sports there and very few of them are football.
>>anyone ... can bend the ball like crazy
Did you read the article, or did it just go straight over your head on an exponential spiral???
If the point of all this study is that the technique and result can be executed and reproduced by anyone, how come Roberto Carlos spent the remainder of his career threatening glasses, noses and flasks in the third row of the second tier? He never even came close to doing this a second time.
Not so much. Easily reproduced? Not so much. I can and have made shots like that, but I'm not consistent. As a poster above states, simple outside of the boot stuff. It really, really is. Unfortunately, it's very difficult to catch the ball exactly right, and you learn this very easily by just watching the pros. Some shots go spectacularly right and fly into the net, but others go into the stands, and would do Johnny Wilkinson proud...
Most straight shots with power are struck with the very top of the foot - watch almost any collection of superb strikes and you'll see this. Then watch replays of misses that go waaaaaay off into the crowd, and you'll see (especially in slo-mo) that they tried to emulate this and struck just a little (or even a lot) off centre of the top of the boot.
As I said, I can and haver done this, but being an old get now I no longer play (1 too many trees when riding off-road) so I'm afraid you're not getting a video...
For those too young to remember....
In the Real World Cup of 1966 two different Brazilians did the exact same thing (which was gob-smackingly noticeable even on 66 vintage screens). One was Garrincha (who looked a bit like the attached icon) the other I forget - may be Pele (although in 66 he spent more time on the ground because of a good kicking than playing footie).
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@Gordon Pryra
Are you sure? When I was an undergraduate we used to have an annual students v lecturers footie match at Uni. One of the microbiology lecturers played at club level and specialised in injurious hacking, while Prof Tuite, the burly biochemistry lecturer could mow down 3 student defenders at a time with a can of stella in his hand, and still score.