Today on YouTube: Brazilian futsal star Falcao scores sublime backheel lob goal
Many may not know the name Falcao, who is widely regarded as Brazil's top futsal player.
19 Dec 2012
His latest moment of brilliance came while playing for Atletico against Estrelas. The 35 year-old scored a quite sublime goal from a free-kick during an exhibition match in at the ‘Futsal Fest'. How to describe it? Well, it involves a backheel lob and a Falcao spin. The rest has to be seen to be believed.
The coolest free-kick ever! Falcao (no, not that one) scores with spinning backheel lob
by John Drayton
19 December 2012
It's hard to beat Roberto Carlos's banana-ball against France for power and swerve, or David Beckham's last-gasp World-Cup-qualifying saviour against Greece for pure drama. But there has possibly never been a goal scored from a free-kick quite as cool as this.
Falcao (no, not the Atletico Madrid striker) has invented a totally new way of finding the net from a free-kick. And we dare you to try and give his trick a name.
The world's best futsal player grabs the ball between his feet, spins 360 degrees and flicks the ball with his heel into the net over the helpless goalkeeper, who was clearly expecting a more conventional low shot.
Falcao - full name Alessandro Rosa Vieira - once played for newly-crowned World Club Champions Corinthians but has made his name in the small-sided format of the game.
But if Chelsea want to get their own back on the Brazilian giants, we reckon they could do worse than sign this chap up.
