A more-hectic-than-expected bit of holiday travel has put a dent in the side of my usually scrupulous blogging schedule, which is perfectly fine with you, thanks for asking. Normal service will resume at the start of next week. In the meantime, why not enjoy one of the ugliest free kicks ever to become surpassingly beautiful? This is Roberto Carlos, lulling Fabien Barthez into an utterly unwarranted sense of security in Brazil’s match against France in Le Tournoi, 1997, and this is your historical goal of the week.
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by Brian Phillips · January 4, 2008
I believe this is the point at which the kids say “That was sick.”
That was indeed sick. Did that hit the post?
A very worthy choice for this feature, and the point at which it became crystal clear that adidas had decided that all major championships would be played with a close relative of the beach ball.
Bite that, Ronaldinho.
Sick? That was seriously twisted. Deeply troubled, childhood trauma, Johnny Depp and Edward Norton fighting over the chance to play you in the movie kind of stuff. They kill guys in prison for making shots like that.
Ursus — I think you’re onto something, and I think it must have been the gentle beach-ball-like swerve of the shot that convinced Barthez to play it cooler than Frankie Avalon on a blanket with Annette Funicello.
“I think it must have been the gentle beach-ball-like swerve of the shot that convinced Barthez to play it cooler than Frankie Avalon on a blanket with Annette Funicello”
I don’t think he had much of choice, really.