chute de folha-seca
English translation: banana kick, dry-leaf kick, falling leaf shot, swerve kick
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| 4 +2 | banana kick |
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| 4 | falling-leaf shot |
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8 mins confidence: 
curve ball kick Explanation: Loan from baseball. |
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11 mins confidence: peer agreement (net): +2
peer agreement (net): +2banana kick Explanation: or: dry-leaf kick -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 16 mins (2008-09-01 14:55:39 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- The one positive note was the performance of Shunsuke Nakamura, who scored two goals, one on a free kick just outside the box, and the second on an improbable "banana-curve" corner kick that he must have pulled out of his old junior high school playbook. |
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| Reference Reference information: There are a few references about the "dry-leaf kick"; many more about "banana" and "swerve" kick. In soccer the free kick that bends around or over a defensive wall and dips past a goalkeeper is called, in Portuguese, a folha seca, which means "dry leaf." You need only look out a window to see a swirling leaf afloat on the wind to know why. Like lullaby or Brigitte Bardot , folha seca is the rare word or phrase that is every bit as beautiful as the thing it describes. It also happens to be a specialty of Roberto Carlos , a Real Madrid galáctico, which is European soccerese for the rank above superstar, an all-galaxy player. The word started in Spain but quickly went viral, spreading to the rest of the globe, if not yet the rest of the Milky Way. http://vault.sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazin... as on "dry leaf or "banana" shots, there will be an optimum velocity that will ... The Brazilian Eder was another such free-kick specialist with the ability ... http://books.google.com.br/books?id=H2T0ZD5S86QC&pg=PA20&lpg... Didi was a craftsman of sagacity and elegance, making long-distance, curved passes, taking penalty-shots with his famous folha seca (dry leaf) kick http://books.google.com.br/books?id=2nMObKWGCVwC&pg=PA72&lpg... |
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