The strongest blow in football: from Roberto Carlos to Lucas Podolski

The blow is one of the most important elements of football, this game is millions. Without him, goals are impossible, which, in turn, are the main goal of the game, its culmination and apotheosis. Beautiful and powerful blows delight all the fans, specialists, colleagues in the profession. Many stars of world football have a crushing blow.

Immediately we can recall the memory of Juninho Pernambucano, famous for his perfect in the strength and accuracy of penalty for the whole of Europe, being a player of the club "Lyon". Always his "shots" of extraordinary strength was famous for Dutch midfielder Frank de Boer. Now, perhaps the most powerful blow in football at the Brazilian striker of St. Petersburg Zenit Halk (Zinivaldu de Sousa). Hulk, while still a player of FC Porto, scored a direct free-kick from Donetsk at Shakhtar Donetsk in a match of the Champions League from a distance of forty meters. The ball was sent with such force that he simply "punched" the hands of the person who had time to react to the goalkeeper and plunged into the net. After the match, the goalkeeper of the "miners" Alexander Rybka admitted that with the impact of such phenomenal force and such an incredible trajectory, he had not yet come across.

For the Hulk this is far from an isolated case - something similar he demonstrates regularly. Just the trend of modern world football is such that the technical means for fixing such moments are used only in large and ranking tournaments, such as the Champions League, the world championships and Europe.

In the eighties, the strongest blow to football belonged to Ronald Kuman, whose killer fouls were feared by all goalkeepers in Europe. Not every goalkeeper could react to the ball sent by his foot. The great defender of the Munich "Bavaria" and "Bundestima" Lothar Mateus also once claimed the title of the player who has the strongest blow in football. In general, this list can be continued indefinitely. But still, who has the strongest blow in football? There are several answers to this question.

For a long time, the unofficial title of the player with the strongest blow in football, was kept by the legendary Roberto Carlos. This extreme defender, who played for his long and successful career in a number of famous clubs - the Brazilian Palmeiras and Corinthians, Milan Inter, Madrid's Real Madrid, Fenerbahce, Istanbul, became famous not so much for his reliable defensive actions and outstanding speed Qualities (which he also had in full), but as the owner of a blow of fantastic power.

Penalties Roberto Carlos will forever remain his main "visiting card". After his kick the ball flew with fantastic speed on a completely unpredictable trajectory, violating all the laws of aerodynamics, and landed already in the corner of the gate. True, over the years the frequency of target destruction by such "deadly shots" has slightly decreased. But even at the end of his career, finishing in the Makhachkala "Anji", Roberto Carlos sometimes grieved his opponents with his irresistible blows. His first such goal from the penalty in the Russian championship, he made the gate Nalchik "Spartacus."

The officially recorded record now belongs to the German striker of Polish origin Lucas Podolski, never before not known for "cannon" blows. At the 2010 World Cup in South Africa in the match "Bundestima" against the Australians in the eighth minute of the meeting, "Prince Poldi" set a record, becoming the player with the most severe blow in football. The ball, launched by him, as from a sling, from a distance of sixteen meters, was accelerated to a speed of 201 km / h.