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We can never get enough of Ronaldinho’s incredible brilliance.
And this is a free-kick frenzy that we’ve never seen before.
When the brass does the forbidden against teammate Roberto Carlos.
For many years, Brazil was the world’s best national football team. With superstars galore like Ronaldo, Rivaldo, Ronaldinho, Kaka, Roberto Carlos and Cafú so they had world-class quality in every position and dominated in the early 2000s.
Germany’s revenge
In 2002, the brass team won World Cup gold in Japan/South Korea and offered incredible samba football throughout the tournament. In the final they beat Germany comfortably 2-0 and secured their fifth World Cup gold in history, it is also the last World Cup gold for the nation.
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Three years later, the countries would meet again on German soil in a training match in 2005 in front of 74,000 spectators in the stands. It was the new national team captain Jurgen Klinsmann first game for Germany and it was described in advance as the World Cup 2002 revenge for the Germans.
Ronaldinho’s cheekiness
But after just nine minutes, Brazil silenced all the thousands of Germans in place with one of the boldest free kicks of all time. Hard-shooting Roberto Carlos took a bet and the wall together with the seasoned goalkeeper Oliver Kahn trembling for what would come here next, see for yourself below.
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Then Ronaldinho tricked everyone and did the forbidden to teammate Carlos, who didn’t understand anything. Kahn was also fooled when he saw the ball sail into the goal, see the free kick below.
“I don’t think even Roberto Carlos knew that Ronaldinho was going to shoot there,” writes a user on Youtube.
“90s football was the golden age of football. So beautiful to watch, such pure football intelligence,” writes another.
“Oh, that was just mean,” writes a third”
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The practice match in front of full stands in 2005 then ended 1-1 after Kevin Kuranyi settles for the Germans. But we never forget Ronaldinho’s amazing audacity, which deserves more attention than it has actually received over the years.
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