On this day 1997 Roberto Carlos done this.
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This goal is greatly diminished by the knowledge that he spent the entire rest of his career blasting the ball into the wall every single time Real Madrid got a free kick, trying to recreate this moment.
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The greatest fluke of all time
It just came up in my recommended videos on youtube
Google Translate worked wonders there
Watching it again, I still don’t think anything diminishes it. It’s as magical now as it was then. Incredible still to see the bend. The ability to hit a ball that hard with that swerve. Sublime.
Surely that would mean he didn’t mean to do it? Which I’d imagine he did.
Back when Brazil still had the shine attached to them.
Exactly.
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He was a poor free taker (for a pro) who somehow managed to score the greatest free kick of all time
I accept your backtrack.
If you try do something a thousand time’s and it only works once that’s a fluke
Barthez didn’t cover himself in glory there.
Just because you didn’t see it doesn’t mean he didn’t do it more than once
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Are we just going to throw up random roberto Carlos goals now? That wasn’t even a freekick 
I’m starting to think Roberto Carlos was the greatest free kick specialist of all time @Julio_Geordio
The amount of curve was similar
No I disagree, that’s not what fluke means. If you know that you mean to do something and you try your hardest and you do it, it’s not a fluke. It doesnt matter how many other times you fail. The corner flag goal is a good example of a fluke because he’s trying to put in a cross.
He was no Ian Harte
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Sweeeeeeeeettttttttttt
Did he ever?