You can find the answers to all these questions and more in a book which takes the time to consider the debt the stepover may owe to Dutch speed skaters, explores the most surprising world transfer record and celebrates the most dysfunctional World Cup campaign ever. Through a series of answers to puzzling and perennial questions, the book sheds unexpected light on the beautiful game, challenging conventional wisdom, discovering neglected heroes and destroying a few urban myths along the way.
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View all LaLiga Sites. More Bundesliga News ». Whilst Maradona was the man to introduce this to the world, this video shows Zinedine Zidane executing it in the best possible way. Though it's difficult to identify exactly who used this trick first, it is believed that the first "rabona" was performed by Ricardo Infante in a game between Estudiantes and Rosario in The term "rabona" came about because an Argentinean football magazine, El Grafico, displayed a picture of Infante performing the trick with the caption "Infante played hooky"—"rabona" in Spanish meaning to play hooky or to skip school.
One of the most cocky or most skillful ways of beating a goalkeeper from the penalty spot, "the Panenka" sees a player nonchalantly chip the ball down the centre of the goal whilst the goalkeeper dives either one way or the other. Antonin Panenka stepped up with a chance to score the winning penalty for Czechoslovakia against Germany.
Facing German custodian Sepp Maier, Panenka simply lofted the ball down the centre of the goal and past the keeper. I never wished to make him look ridiculous. On the contrary, I chose the penalty because I saw and realised it was the easiest and simplest recipe for scoring a goal. It is a simple recipe. Rarely ever seen and used by predominantly by one man, "La Cuauhteminha" is used by Mexican football Cuauhtemoc Blanco.
Often when facing two defenders, Blanco would hold the ball between both feet and hop through the air, carrying the ball past his opposition. Though not always successful, the move is highly entertaining and could leave a number of defenders embarrassed when executed properly. Performed on a regular basis by Rodrigo Taddei, "the Aurelio" is one of the more difficult tricks to master.
Stepping over the ball with the non-kicking foot, Taddei then uses his favoured right foot to drag the ball around the outside of his left—fooling the opposition to thinking he is going one way—before whipping it on in front of him and back on to his right side.
One of the most simple yet effective tricks in football, "the step-over" can create a player space to pass, cross or shoot if done correctly. Many, many players have used it throughout the history of football—Chris Waddle, Zinedine Zidane and Cristiano Ronaldo to name a few—but it is believed that Dutch footballer Law Adam was the first to perfect the trick. Portugal's Ricardo Quaresma is an expert at "the Trivela. Simply put, when wanting to play a pass or a shot in the opposite direction from where a player is facing, "the back-heel" is the most effect method of doing just that.
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