Brazilian player channels inner Roberto Carlos in Ukrainian Premier League match
Nearly 19 years on from his famed "banana" free kick, it appears more and more players are trying their hand at channeling their inner Roberto Carlos.
Regarded as one of the best to ever have been struck in the modern game, the kick had physicists and scientists alike scratching their heads as to just how expertly the former Real Madrid fullback was able to bend a ball around a wall and back inside the frame of the goal in the Tournoi de France.
And after Faiz Subri's absurdly flabbergasting free kick out of the Malaysia Super League earlier this year, this wondergoal in the Ukranian Super League would have the three-time Champions League winner stopped in his tracks.
Roberto Carlos, eat your heart out!
That's fellow Brazilian Anderson Pico, a wingback on loan at Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk from Flamengo, scoring his side's opening goal en route to a 4-0 thumping of Oleksandriya.
Granted, the spin applied to Roberto Carlos' strike followed a different trajectory and was of a different caliber altogether, but from one countryman to another -- and whether Pico meant it or not -- there's no denying Brazilians' ability in dead-ball scenarios is still alive and well.
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