Although it can be used in defensive situations to erase the ball from the penalty area, it is more often associated with attacking movements and attempts to mark. It is a very complex movement and few players have the nerve to try it. And although when it triumphs, it is often a thing of beauty, it can also be spectacularly bad. It can also cause injury to the player trying it, so non-professionals should not try it in their local games.
Ironically, it can be argued that bicycle goals are successful because the believed to be terrible, forcing a player to improvise and twist the bodies in an unnatural position when they should have to run the ball forward. German moving expert Hermann Schwameder described it this way, “what you need is instinct, a lot of courage, and a bad cross.”
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There is a dispute about who invented the bike. In a version of events, it was the creation of Ramón Galeano who moved from Spain to Chile in the early years of the twentieth century, and that it is believed that he first practiced the movement in the port of Talcahuano and would execute the movement in both defense and attack. After showing the movement in both the 1916 and 1920 Américas Cup, the Argentine press christened it in his honor, La Chileňa.
An alternative story is that an African offspring, known as Chalaco, was invented in Peru, known as Chalaco, who tried in a game played with the British visiting sailors, perhaps until 1892.
Another player who claimed to have invented that he was the Brazilian striker Leonidas, whose elasticity earned him the nickname “The Rubber Man”. However, Records suggested that he used it for the first time in 1932 playing his Club Bonsucesso, which was more than a decade after Galeono produced it for the first time.
Other plaintiffs include Carlo Parola at the Youth Center, who executed the move so often that he perhaps acquired the epithet “Mr. Inverse Kick” and probably the least likely, Doug Ellis, who was President of Aston Villa for many years, and claimed that he invented the movement while playing Southport during World War II.
Cristiano Ronaldo-Quarter of the Champions League, Real Madrid V Juventus
Cristiano Ronaldo has scored some impressive goals in his time, but possibly no better than what he produced against Juventus al Allianz Stadium when he played Real Madrid in the quarterfinals of the Champions League in 2018. It was so good that UEFA named him his goal of the season.
Ronaldo had given a real advantage to real, but it seemed little danger when in the beginning of the second half, Martin Vasquez took a loose ball to the right and sent a cross to Ronaldo. The ball was not only behind the striker, but above the head, but this did not matter. He threw himself acrobatically by the air, executed a perfect bike stroke that passed ahead of Gigi Buffon on Juventus network before anyone else reacted.
The strike was so good that home fans stand to applaud the Portuguese score. It may not be surprising that Juventus paid € 100 million (£ 90 million) to buy their services at the end of the season.
Wayne Rooney, Manchester United against Manchester City
He labeled the best goal of the Premier League Mai, Rooney described the goal that Manchester Derby won in February 2011 as the most important one ever marked for the club. Nani had given the United States leadership only because David Silva equalized a little fortuitous.
United, United, dropped the title race points, Rooney won the game. Twelve minutes left on the clock when Nani sent a cross from the right of the area. The ball was high and behind Rooney, near the penalty site. However, he reacted in an instant, readjusted his position and then sent an acrobatic shot ahead of the city goalkeeper Joe Hart, who barely had time to answer.
Hart later insisted that Rooney had not come into perfect contact and had shone, but this does not hurt the quality of the strike. The United would continue to win the league title that year.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Sweden against England
Swedish striker Zlatan Ibrahimovich has never been a man suffering from false modesty. He is fully aware of his huge talents, who have seen a brilliant club career in Europe and now in America with MLS. He is also the largest player in the Swedish national team of all time, marking 62 times in 118 international ones, before finally leaving the international scene in 2016.
However, possibly his highest goal in a Sweden T -shirt reached a friendly with England in November 2012. He had already taken a Hat Trick in the game when he put the lid in an excellent individual performance with a moment of supreme improvisation.
A long authorization found that the goalkeeper of England, Joe Hart, left his area to direct the clear ball on the advance of Ibrahimovich. The ball floated in the air and, with his back on the goal of 35 meters, the striker saw football in his right foot. He connected correctly by sending the ball in an arch to the network of England without guardian.
Sweden occupied between 4 and 2 winners of the game.
Ibrahimovic soon learned that the other significant event on bicycle kicks: they can go wrong and, when they do, the author may seem very silly. When trying to replicate the strike when playing Paris Saint-Germain in a French Cup tie against Saint-Etienne, he lost the ball completely, disembarking ignominy on the grass.
Gareth Bale, Real Madrid v Liverpool
Gareth Bale’s strike for Real Madrid in the Champions League final is, without a doubt, the largest goal that was scored in an important final. And it was composed of a player who had only been on the pitch for two minutes at that time, after being introduced as a substitute for the second half when the teams were at a level in a goal.
The goal originated with a Marcelo cross with the weakest right foot. The front companions Cristiano Ronaldo and Karim Benzema occupied the defenders of the Liverpool, giving the Bale the space he needed to establish -taking a vital step to create an angle. He then sailed to the air and then stirred his left foot to the ball, connecting with the sweets of the strikes, passing the desperate immersion of the Liverpool goalkeeper, Loris Karius.
Bale would go to claim a second in the game, although this was much more prosaic, as Karius dropped a single except that he was expected to save at any time.
Angel Vaccaro, Honved V Ferencvaros
Italian striker Angelo Vaccaro was playing on the Hungarian side affected against the Budapest side, Ferencvaros managed to produce one of the best general goals of all time, after taking a very poor penalty. Honded already led the party 1-0 when they were awarded a point of view, which he took Vaccaro. He hit the ball well, but at a perfect height for the goalkeeper, who pushed it into the air. Vaccaro saw football as he went down and forgot about the defenders who dragged the ball on his head and the goalkeeper, on the net.
Oscarine Masuluke, Baroka FC V Orlando Pirates
Although the tastes of Ronaldo, Rooney and Bale can be domestic names, Oscarine Masuluke would hardly be known outside his south -native Africa if it were not for this moment on an extraordinary skill that came to a South League -African Premier League party. What makes it even more noteworthy is that, unlike the other goals of this list, which were noted by Strikes, Masuluke is a goalkeeper.
And his goal could not have come more dramatically. Baroka received a corner. Masuluke properly headed to the Orlando penalty area, hoping to move the ball forward, or create a nuisance of himself. However, Orlando directed the ball to the edge of the area behind Masuluke. The goalkeeper suddenly turned the ball on his shoulder and the ball flew to the net to cause wild celebrations on and off the pitch, while Baroka reached a valuable point.
As the party’s commentators said, “Incredible, you’ve never seen anything in your life.”
