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He usually uses the knuckleball technique. These types of shots are usually used most in free kicks, corner kicks and shots on goal. Bending shot / Curl (association football) / Trivela: Sometimes called curve. Any part of the foot can be used to do a bending shot, but using the inside or outside parts produce the most bend.
In association football (soccer), the method of striking the ball so that it produces almost no spinning motion during its flight has been colloquially described as "knuckleballing" by commentators, due to the ball's motion that resembles a baseball thrown with a knuckleball pitch. This shooting technique is frequently used by players for long ...
English: In this image, Newton's Laws of Motion are shown throughout common occurrences of a soccer match. In the first law, the ball is influenced by the wind, an unbalanced force, causing it to roll. In the second law, the ball is being kicked causing its acceleration to be dependent on the mass of the soccer ball and the net force of the kick.
The knuckle ball free-kick technique takes a significant amount of skill to replicate and strike accurately. In total, Juninho scored at least 75 goals from direct free kicks throughout his professional football career, [7] [8] [9] which spanned from 1993 to 2013. [50] Juninho's Adidas boots in the Lyon museum
[2] [3] The technique of putting curl on a ball with the outside of the foot is sometimes known as a trivela, a Portuguese term, with Ricardo Quaresma a notable user of this skill. [4] The topspin technique of putting straight curl (instead of side curl) on a ball is known as a dip or dipping shot. [ 5 ]
The second type of knuckle curve is a breaking ball that is thrown with a grip similar to the knuckleball. Unlike a knuckleball, which spins very little, a knuckle curve spins like a normal curveball because the pitcher's index and middle fingers push the top of the ball into a downward curve at the moment of release.
Numerous feints and ruses are tried to fool the opposition, including having attackers join the "wall." A successful free kick from the 1970 World Cup- Brazil vs Czechoslovakia, illustrates how the technique works. Brazilian forwards Jairzinho and Tostao cunningly joined the end of the defensive wall as the Czechs set it up.
As long as he is a real knuckleball pitcher (and doesn't simply have, say, a knuckle-curve (i.e., not a true knuckleball) in his arsenal, sure, include him. — Adam Conover † 02:40, Jul 20, 2004 (UTC) Someone changed the article to say that the finger grip is the only grip used to throw the knuckleball today, rather than the original knuckle ...