Thanks. Interesting how he mentions hitting the ball with the three small toes. I thought I remembered Juninho hitting the ball with his instep?
Please tell me you're being sarcastic. There is no possible way for a ball to change it's flight path the way it did for Pirlo or even Roberto Carlos for that matter. It took a deflection. Watch it closely. The ball's spinning as it flies towards the wall but stops spinning as soon as it goes past it.
Actually it was a placement shot. Pirlo strikes it with the outside foot just barely, enough to give it the up spin while combing velocity making it a sharp hit. If anything the goalie glorify's the strike because he was totally off course in his porous attempt to get a touch on it. But he defenitely "placed" it cleanly without any deflection. And no as much as I would like Pirlo to be the best he's not, although he's not far away by any stretch.
it is never easy to defend free kicks as a GK so when the ball moves the way it did the keeper can look amateurish. the chills a goalkeeper gets seeing a ball bend in that kind of way when you are expecting something completely different can be numbing.