Video clips of goals scored using the Rabona technique wanted

Tote attempted to score a goal with a rabona in one of his very few appearances for Real Madrid last season. I think it might have been a champion's league match - home to Juve? can't remember but I know he missed and was widely criticised in the Spanish press.

 

and what is the Rabona technique?

 

I need to know.

 

i know i've seen Rivaldo score in a Brazilian friendly using the Rabona technique.. and Veron tries it from time to time as well, not to score goals tho...

 

All I can find is that it is a term associated with tango but originally comes from soccer. Still no help.


Rabona A walking step with a syncopated cross. Done forward or backward the dancer steps on a beat, quickly closes the
other foot in cruzada, and steps again on the next beat. Adopted from soccer.

 

wtf is the Rabona technique?

 

here we go

this from MLSnet's description of their skills competition:


The Central Division earned a momentary lead on the night with their players' performance in the Gol Olimpico competition but it was forward Luis Hernandez's effort on the chip shot phase of the event that
won over the Spartan Stadium crowd. With a delightful move, called 'la rabona', where he elegantly brought his left foot behind his right leg to chip the shot, Hernandez netted two of his three attempts and totaled four points.


I used to play with a Jamaican guy that did this all the time.

 

A year or two ago I saw Viduka do this for a cross.

 

fall of 2002 i saw a video on bigsoccer from one of the brazilian leagues...i think the vid was from O globo actually. anyways, the quality was only so-so, but the brazilian scored with a rabona. it was spectacular, to say the least, but he was just outside the goal box when he shot, at the most 8 yards away. perhaps the most intriguing aspect of the goal, however, was that he couldn't have scored it any other way. the ball took a weird bounce on the cross, and the player simply had an amazing instinctive reaction to reach for the ball after it had passed by him. the reason he couldn't have scored any other way is because he was balanced on his right foot i believe, when the ball took the weird bounce, and he didn't have time to do anything but reach for it with his left foot going behind his right leg. it was an amazing goal, but not the class of van der vaart's from a couple months ago.

going with the weird trick shots that scored theme, has anyone ever seen a "scorpion" used in a game? i actually did it in an indoor intramural game at my college last year, and i have to say, that was my epiphany as a soccer player. i'll probably never do anything even remotely as spectacular as that was. and it was just an instinctive reaction, no planning on my part. i think i was just as suprised as anyone that i did it, and the fact that i not only connected but sent a powerful shot that the goalie had no chance to stop made me want to just walk off the court right there and call it a night, seeing as how there was no way i or anyone could top that.

 

I've got a video of Zola using the Rabona vs. Norwich. I don't know how to post it online though...

 

is a "scorpion" similar to Van der Vaart's goal?

 

Re: here we go

It's not in a game but at least you can see what it looks like. http://www.soccercommercials.com/movies/Kewell.mpeg

 

CIAO,
TI RICORDI ESATTAMENTE IN QUALE PARTITA RIVALDO AVEVA FATTO GOAL DI RABONA ?
IL 15 Jan 2004 TU AVEVI SCRITTO: i know i've seen Rivaldo score in a Brazilian friendly using the Rabona technique.. and Veron tries it from time to time as well, not to score goals tho...

RISPONDI PER FAVORE.

 

CIAO,
TI RICORDI ESATTAMENTE IN QUALE PARTITA RIVALDO AVEVA FATTO GOAL DI RABONA ?
IL 15 Jan 2004 TU AVEVI SCRITTO: i know i've seen Rivaldo score in a Brazilian friendly using the Rabona technique.. and Veron tries it from time to time as well, not to score goals tho...

RISPONDI PER FAVORE.

 

Tote did that move several times after that, when he was with Valladolid.

 

if its the move im thinking of then maradona did it lots of times,set up a few goals using this technique...its a great move also have seen the late brazilian denner score with it too.great skill

 

Rene Higuita did that... as a goalie, in Wembley.

 

Yes, the first time I saw it was when Marafatcheat did it in the World Youth Cup....Joe Cole does it all the time now........

 

I saw Pele do a rabona first. Maradona and Romario set up goals for others using that technique more than once. Rivaldo is probably the only guy I have seen score multiple goals using that technique.

 

There is a video clip of David Dunne doing it, somewhere on this site, but I can't remember where it is........it's quite funny as he falls arse over tit...

Sinner might have had it as his sig. at one time, not sure

 

Why is it called the Rabona technique? Did he do it first?

 

DEAR MISTER,
YOU MEMORIES EXACTLY IN WHICH MATCHES RIVALDO IT HAD MADE GOAL OF RABONA?
YOU WAS WRITE: I saw Pele do a rabona first. Maradona and Romario set up goals for others using that technique more than once. Rivaldo is probably the only guy I have seen score multiple goals using that technique
YOU ANSWER-ME PLEASE.

 

You know who the greatest exponent of the rabona technique is? Falcao, the World Futsal Player of the Year. He is amazing to watch. Another guy who keeps scoring using the rabona technique.

 

I saw someone take a penalty using it, but i can't remember if it was in a game or practice......