Description: In 1998, Brazilian footballer / soccer player Roberto Carlos scored a ridiculously bendy free-kick against France. It seemed to be missing the goal until the last second when it took a seemingly impossible swerve at the last second. There's been debates for years about whether it was a fluke, but it's still often regarded as (one of) the greatest free-kicks ever taken.
The video of the seemingly impossible kick is
here. (turn volume down)
Anyway, a group of scientists got together and made have gone onto
explain the science of that free-kick in an impossibly detailed analysis:
For a summary of this research go
here.
Good posT ! Supportin'
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