Overrated: Has to be Roberto Carlos. Only knows how to thump them, has no disguise whatsoever and 90 per cent of the time it either flies way over or hits the wall. Of those he scores, that free kick he took against France ranks as one of his best, but also one of the most overrated. Another contender is Del Piero - he used to be very accurate just outside the area but over the last few years he's misplaced a million more dead balls than he's scored.
Underrated: Pierre van Hooijdonk. I never knew this man could take free kicks until I downloaded some of his videos in this forum.. and boy can he take them. They seem to curl crazily and change directions 2 or 3 times over its course.. simply amazing. Deadly accurate too, might I add. Other contenders are Juninho Pernambucano (Lyon) and Assuncao (Betis). I wouldn't put the usual Beckhams, Recobas and Mihaijlovics in here because they're known terrors of the dead ball.
Anymore you guys can think of?
Underrated: Pierre van Hooijdonk. I never knew this man could take free kicks until I downloaded some of his videos in this forum.. and boy can he take them. They seem to curl crazily and change directions 2 or 3 times over its course.. simply amazing. Deadly accurate too, might I add. Other contenders are Juninho Pernambucano (Lyon) and Assuncao (Betis). I wouldn't put the usual Beckhams, Recobas and Mihaijlovics in here because they're known terrors of the dead ball.
Anymore you guys can think of?
p how is he under-rated, everyone raves about his kicks.
