Highest speed of a soccer ball?

Discussion in 'The Beautiful Game' started by WayneRooneyIsFat, Jul 6, 2005.

  1. WayneRooneyIsFat

    WayneRooneyIsFat New Member

    Mar 9, 2005
    NYC, NY
    Does anyone know the record for the highest measured speed of a soccer ball kicked from a standstill?

    Of course it's not like tennis or baseball where you can put a radar gun on a serve or pitch, but I'm sure they've done experiments to find who can kick the ball hardest. I googled and couldn't find anything.

    And as a side note, are some players generally acknowledged to have the most powerful shots? I would think big guys like Adriano would be advantaged, but I don't pretend to be knowledgeable about such things.
     
  2. GoodDead

    GoodDead Moderator
    Staff Member

    Aug 8, 2004
    Toronto Canada
    Club:
    Sporting Braga
    Nat'l Team:
    Portugal
    That is a good question. I'm sure someone around here has got an answer.
     
  3. CrewDust

    CrewDust Member

    May 6, 1999
    Columbus, Ohio
    Club:
    Columbus Crew
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    I'm not sure if the ball was still or who the player was but he had a shot on goal clocked at 104 mph. This was a few years ago in the Champions League. It made a top 10 plays of the day.
     
  4. ncguy

    ncguy New Member

    Jan 28, 2002
    NC
    Somebody else in the States will probably remember but it seems like one year during the MLS All Star game they did put radar guns on a shot contest. It seems like Zach Thorton won with a shot around 90 miles per hour.
     
  5. Elninho

    Elninho Member+

    Sacramento Republic FC
    United States
    Oct 30, 2000
    Sacramento, CA
    Club:
    Los Angeles Galaxy
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Most shots are in the 40-60 mph range, with occasional shots going into the 70s and 80s. Anything faster than 85 mph is extremely rare. The all-time record shot (of those clocked) was by Eder, in the 1982 World Cup match between Brazil and the USSR, at 110 mph. The hardest that I know of in the last decade or so is a 96 mph shot by Sunday Oliseh, with Roberto Carlos a close second at 94 mph.
     
  6. WayneRooneyIsFat

    WayneRooneyIsFat New Member

    Mar 9, 2005
    NYC, NY
    Thanks. Was the 94 mph Roberto Carlos shot the famous bending one against France?

    BTW, how is Cal Tech's soccer team? :)
     
  7. halfnelson31

    halfnelson31 New Member

    Jul 23, 2002
    NOVA
    my friend at soccer camp becks' pk against argentina in 2002 was clocked round 100 told me that
     
  8. Roffadam

    Roffadam Red Card

    Jun 21, 2005
    Rotterdam, NLD
    now where is that seedorf_patata.mpg link :cool:
     
  9. joto 3

    joto 3 New Member

    Feb 24, 2005
    evansville, IN
    ya that was a few years back in the all star challenge... thorton is beastly


    mamudo diallo owned that year
     
  10. joto 3

    joto 3 New Member

    Feb 24, 2005
    evansville, IN

    i heard it was at 97

    thats unreal
     
  11. ChivasFan87

    ChivasFan87 Member

    Jun 29, 2005
    Fresno, CA
    i remember that MLS all star challenge. i remember they were clocked in the like their 50's or 60's but i don't remember that well. anyways here's a link that u guys might find interesting
    http://www.soccerballworld.com/Physics.htm
     
  12. ChivasFan87

    ChivasFan87 Member

    Jun 29, 2005
    Fresno, CA
    does anyone know where i can get a video clip of that R. Carlos kick against France. i would really appreciate it, thanx.
     
  13. Dominican Lou

    Dominican Lou Member+

    Nov 27, 2004
    1936 Catalonia
    It also depends how far the ball has to travel.

    Short, 10-yard blasts will go much faster than any 35-yarders.

    There's several soccer shows in South America that routinely measure the speed of shots and I've seen a few that go well into the 110-120 mph range. Of course, they're all well inside the box.
     
  14. Hrvat

    Hrvat New Member

    Mar 27, 2005
    Zagreb, Croatia
    I've read that Adriano is the one with the strongest shot measured during a match.
     
  15. Elninho

    Elninho Member+

    Sacramento Republic FC
    United States
    Oct 30, 2000
    Sacramento, CA
    Club:
    Los Angeles Galaxy
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Adriano's fastest measured (that I know of) is 88 mph.
     
  16. Cassano

    Cassano Member

    Jul 16, 2004
    Club:
    AC Milan
    Nat'l Team:
    Italy
    Actually, Adriano was clocked by the Italian newspaper Gazzetta dello Sport. The result was on one of his free-kicks, he hit the ball at about 105 mph. Much higher than Roberto Carlos. Zico also had a hard shot in his day.
     
  17. johno

    johno Member+

    Jul 15, 2003
    in the wind
    Club:
    Manchester United FC
    Nat'l Team:
    --other--
    Any numbers on Rooney? I know he probably does not have a very high number yet, but he hits an awful lot of hard shots... harder than most other shots consistently but not exactly record setting.

    Very interesting stuff on that physics article... now I have a headache... thanks alot.
     
  18. Auriaprottu

    Auriaprottu Member+

    Atlanta Damn United
    Apr 1, 2002
    The back of the bus
    Club:
    Atlanta
    Nat'l Team:
    --other--
    Can't say how fast it was going, but a couple of years ago I saw (on TV) Djibril Cisse score from about 25 yards out during the run of play on an absolute bullet of a shot. The ball looked like it was on a frozen rope- never lost speed, never dropped, and never got higher than five or six feet off the ground. By the time the keeper had even turned in the direction of the ball, it was bouncing on the ground in the goal. Hardest shot I've ever seen for sure.
     
  19. anlas1

    anlas1 Member

    Aug 21, 2003
    New York
    Try this, just go down to Roberto Carlos. I hope it works:

    http://www.futebolthebrazilianwayoflife.com/video.shtml
     
  20. Elninho

    Elninho Member+

    Sacramento Republic FC
    United States
    Oct 30, 2000
    Sacramento, CA
    Club:
    Los Angeles Galaxy
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Since people are talking about the famous free kick vs. France, no it wasn't that shot. That free kick was actually fairly slow. I never saw a speed figure, but it looked to me like it was only in the 50s or 60s.
     
  21. DanRod78

    DanRod78 New Member

    Mar 30, 2003
    Kansas City, KS
    Beckham? is that a joke? Maybe the penalty kick that he missed in Euro2004

    Nobody has mentioned Koeman from Holland and Branco from Brazil.
     
  22. guado

    guado Member+

    Jun 30, 2004
    ocotengo miedo
    Club:
    Inverness Caledonian Thistle
    Nat'l Team:
    Indonesia
    that shot is known for the trajectory it took, not for the power.
     
  23. AliKarimi

    AliKarimi New Member

    May 10, 2005
    Tehran
    I thought the official record was 96 by Beckham
     
  24. DanRod78

    DanRod78 New Member

    Mar 30, 2003
    Kansas City, KS
    Have you ever seen Beckham kick the ball as hard as Roberto Carlos or Adriano
    NO
     
  25. Hartfield

    Hartfield Red Card

    Jun 15, 2005
    Bogota D.C
    ive seen miss a penalty really badly.... :)
     

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