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Post by Boogaloo on Oct 24, 2014 14:42:12 GMT
A lot of news reports flying around about last night's goal in the Europa League. I took one look at it and thought what's all the fuss about, he hit it from just outside the area in to the top-right hand corner - good goal, but you seem them all the time.
But then I looked at it again and again, and saw that rather hitting it with his right foot, he actually hits it with his left, playing the ball behind his stationary right leg - the sort of thing we see Ronaldo do quite a lot of when he crosses it in. But I've never seen a player score with that trick from outside the box! Amazing tekkers:-
and this is what happens when mere mortals like us try it:-
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Post by bicesteryellow on Oct 24, 2014 15:23:03 GMT
Until I saw it from that angle I thought he'd hit it with his right. Fantastic goal
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Post by amarillo on Oct 24, 2014 15:30:06 GMT
Its bloody hard to do a rabona at all, let alone strike a ball with that pace into the top corner
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Post by Mark on Oct 24, 2014 15:33:57 GMT
If he wasn't one footed he wouldn't have needed to do that.
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Post by tonyw on Oct 24, 2014 15:35:35 GMT
The best report I've read about this goal is weirdly on an American site: ftw.usatoday.com/2014/10/erik-lamela-rabona-goal"The best part about the goal is how unnecessary it is....... Kicking it with your right foot and curling it in the net is for peons. It is for the simpleminded. Lamela has spent years, years, refusing to kick the ball with his right foot, and he isn’t going to let a little old thing like the ball being on the right side of his body stop him from this singleminded commitment to only kicking with his left. He is like a man who has been denied one sense only for all his other senses to be elevated. Lamela has never kicked with his right foot, and this lifelong pursuit has built to this one moment, a moment of sublime brilliance with his left. The fact that it was in a Thursday night Europa League group game against Asteras Tripoli is irrelevant. Lamela has waited his whole life for this stupid, brilliant, gorgeous goal. And now it is here."
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Post by amarillo on Oct 24, 2014 15:43:06 GMT
I've never understood how footballers come to reach the top level even some of the best ever (Maradona) without using both feet. Its not that difficult to train yourself to be at least competant with your other foot.
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Post by stevegilbert on Oct 24, 2014 16:29:55 GMT
I've never understood how footballers come to reach the top level even some of the best ever (Maradona) without using both feet. Its not that difficult to train yourself to be at least competant with your other foot. Very true but some do manage it. Sturridge is probably Englands best striker right now and is one of the most left footed players i've seen.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 24, 2014 18:59:19 GMT
I've never understood how footballers come to reach the top level even some of the best ever (Maradona) without using both feet. Its not that difficult to train yourself to be at least competant with your other foot. Very true but some do manage it. Sturridge is probably Englands best striker right now and is one of the most left footed players i've seen. After Hylton
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Post by Colin B on Oct 24, 2014 19:37:35 GMT
Its bloody hard to do a rabona at all, let alone strike a ball with that pace into the top corner Where does the description "rabona" come from? I've never heard the term before.
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Post by trolleysnatcha on Oct 24, 2014 20:06:17 GMT
Its bloody hard to do a rabona at all, let alone strike a ball with that pace into the top corner Where does the description "rabona" come from? I've never heard the term before. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/RabonaSent from my HTC One using proboards
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Post by stevegilbert on Oct 24, 2014 20:26:51 GMT
Very true but some do manage it. Sturridge is probably Englands best striker right now and is one of the most left footed players i've seen. After Hylton Are you suggesting Hylton is currently the best striker in England?
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Post by Deleted on Oct 24, 2014 22:59:15 GMT
Are you suggesting Hylton is currently the best striker in England? Of course
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Post by The Fence End on Oct 24, 2014 23:07:29 GMT
How pathetically one footed he must be to do that rather than use his weaker foot. £27million on a one footed player.
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Post by stevegilbert on Oct 24, 2014 23:13:28 GMT
Are you suggesting Hylton is currently the best striker in England? Of course I tend to agree and put the fact that he doesn't play for England down to tiredness.
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Post by Young Money on Oct 25, 2014 9:38:05 GMT
You can be a better one-footed player than some two-footed player, if your one foot is that good.
I agree thought that, if I knew I wanted to/was going to be a professional footballer, I would work on being two footed, it seems one of the easiest thing to repeatedly train to give yourself an advantage. Like being fit, and strong. Every aspiring player should make sure they have those three attributes, as they're pretty straightforward to train yourself in.
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Post by Boogaloo on Oct 25, 2014 9:43:32 GMT
It does seem strange to me that a player would find it easier training themselves up to the Rabona than learning to kick it with their 'other' foot. Regardless of how left-footed you are, I would have thought it would be easier to kick it right-footed than perform a Rabona.
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