Roberto Carlos Le Tournoi Goal explained

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Can't see this has been posted but guess most football fans will know the goal i'm on about if not see below.


and the sciency stuff is on the BBC website here

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-11153466

surprised that it has taken so long to figure out how he done it, maybe we shall see some more attempts of people trying to copy his technique in the near future.
 
i remember that goal clearly over 13 years ago (yikes im getting old)

i still think it was the ball rather than the player's technique that scored that.

the amount of swerve would have required a severe slice across the ball with a massive reduction in power.

still, its a god like goal :D
 
it was always amusing to see him try to recreate in subsequent games, and it'd almost always result in him absolutely battering it into some poor sod in the wall and crippling them...
 
That is the most ridiculous waste of a physicists time if I've ever seen one.
It's pretty dam obvious what happened.
lol at the way the ball would have ended up if gravity didn't kick in, hmmm
Cracking goal though.
 
Beeb said:
Now, a study published in the New Journal of Physics suggests that the long-held assumption that the goal was a fantastic fluke is wrong.
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Not really. All it's done is prove that it's physically possible, which of course it is, because it happened. Bit like all that "proving bees can fly" nonsense.

And has it really taken them 13 years just to figure out that a ball curves in the air when its spun? Didn't we already know that from like, every other free kick ever?
 
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They say it could be repeated if a ball was kicked hard enough, with the appropriate spin and, crucially, the kick was taken sufficiently far from goal.
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I hope they didn't spend to long on this.
 
Weebull said:
And has it really taken them 13 years just to figure out that a ball curves in the air when its spun? Didn't we already know that from like, every other free kick ever?
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This bloke explains his other strike quite well.


So he basically kicked the inside of ball to make it spin :o
 
From reading that article I think they've proven that it was a fluke. If gravity hadn't taken over it wouldn't have gone in! :p
 
Reading the actual paper, it seems it's just a terrible article by the BBC. Carlos' free kick is used as nothing more than an example at the end of how football is the best sport to observe spin on a ball (due to the size of the pitch). They don't even say it would form a perfect spiral like the picture shows, because part of the paper concludes that the spin on the ball will decrease.

It's still not exactly earth-shatteringly complex stuff, but you'd expect the Beeb to do science reporting just a tiny bit better than this.
 
He has like size 6 feet and something like 50 inch thighs and the power he can generate and his small foot means he can spin the ball more than most, he is only 5 foot 6 as well.

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Awesome player.
 
I played semi pro when i was kid now play i play in Devon county league and Carlos always been my hero considering i play left back!

i rate him best player to ever grace planet earth!

Awesome Awesome player!
 
Bah, Maldini is the aspiring left-back's true idol, none of that glitzy attacking nonsense :p
 
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