All the free-kicks he scored in his career. Unbelievable.
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He is widely regarded as one of the greatest free kick takers of all time.
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Juninho has been described as "One of the world's most feared strikers of a static ball"[4]. As of November 5, 2008, Juninho has scored 40 goals from direct free kicks for Olympique Lyonnais, his latest being a 30 yard low strike against Steaua Bucharest which wrongfooted the keeper. [5]. The method he uses for long-range free-kicks is frequently "knuckle balling," where the ball has almost no spinning motion during flight. [6]. A successful knuckle ball will "move" or "wobble" in the air unpredictably, making it difficult for the goal keeper to save.[7]. He first made his name as a free kick taker to europe with a long range free kick against Bayern Munich in the 2003-04 champions league group stage in which the ball dipped viciously at the end of travel that deceived Bayern keeper Oliver Kahn. He has scored from free-kicks beyond 40 yards on three occasions: a 41 meter screamer against AC Ajaccio in 2006[8], a 45 meter goal against F.C.Barcelona in 2007.[9] and a 48 meter goal against OGC Nice in 2008 [10]. Even before Lyon, he displayed his talent in Vasco, scoring several free-kick goals for the club. Juninho has also scored memorable free-kick goals for Brazil, the most famous being a curling shot from 27 meters against Greece in the 2005 FIFA Confederations Cup. Brazil would go on to win the match 3-0.Also, Juninho scored 2 memorable free kicks against Nice in the 2007-2008 season as Lyon were losing 2-0. Juninho rapidly pulled back his team by scoring 1 free kick that flew in the top corner and 1 from 43 yards away. Lyon went on too win that game aswell with a converted penalty by Karim Benzema. [11]
This post has been edited by blinky: Jan 8 2009, 12:36 PM
haha..he is good too...remember his freekick against real madrid in ucl...casillas were stunned badly by his freekick..
He actually made Spain's no.1 rooted 3 times with the 3 goals he scored over both ties.
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Del Piero due to his age.For his age to be able to do spectacular stuff make me stunned especially doing twice against same team
Yeah he is a living legend for us. Hopefully he can fulfil his dream to play in WC2010 and retire as the best player that ever graced the Black and White Shirt of Juventus.
This post has been edited by gwong: Jan 8 2009, 10:49 PM
i don't know you guys notice or not, every fk specialist has their own technique,their position, the way they move to the ball or the way they kick the ball.
ronaldinho tends to distance him self 3 or 4 feet from the ball and a lot of angle to work with. beckham don't need to put him self far away from the ball what he always do is work some angle out and elevate his golden right foot to the ball and create ridiculous spin and curve and its was brilliant technique to watch. but the most weird technique from the game came from juninho, he didn't gave him self angle from the ball meant that he stood parallel and align towards to ball before he took the fk, and how on earth he manage to get all those accuracy plus humiliated all the keeper that stood behind the wall for me is still unknown, the way he do it is just like he against the law of physic(deadly accuracy)..
by the way my fav fk takers are quite a lot(juninho, beckham, Mihajlovic, lampard....) its not fair to say that one is better than another...
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Ballack is not known to be a great free kick taker but the slow motion image of him puffing his cheek and scoring in the Euro finals (vs Austria?) will always be an enduring image... and i dont like Germany..hahah
Jan 8 2009, 12:31 PM
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