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Nothing beats a well thought out free kick variation.
Over the years, we have seen many different ingenious ideas.
But the question is whether this is one of the most confusing and clever variations we’ve seen.
One of football’s most beautiful game moments is the free kick. Here, creativity can really flow and whether it is a shot or a cross, you can truly outsmart the opposing team in many different ways.
Successful variant
A curved free kick directly into the goal always hits home with football lovers around the world. But of course it’s still more beautiful with an ingenious and trained free-kick variant that fools all opponents in the other team.
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A basic ingredient for a really successful variation is usually the element of surprise itself. Here, the German team Rot Weiss Essen succeeds in the best way in this classic free kick from 2013 that stunned the entire football world for many years and created plenty of copies in its wake.
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Brilliant free kick
The teammates first gather in a cluster by the ball and hatch here the idea that just seconds later will surprise everyone. Then six players line up around the ball to take the free kick and great confusion takes over, watch the video below.
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But it turns out to be exactly according to plan for when the defensive Kevin Grund drags the free kick into the goal, it’s a shocked wall that just stands and looks at the ball. The neat free kick from Bundesliga D has received almost half a million views on Youtube and everyone is loving it in the comments section, see the video below.
“Very, very good,” writes one user.
“Three billion in IQ,” writes another on YouTube.
“That one is really messy, very nice but regardless very messy,” writes a third.
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As a small curiosity, it can be mentioned that the Mesut Ozil once upon a time played for Rot Weiss Essen’s junior team before moving on to Schalke 04 and out into the world.
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