Marechal Rondon futsal player Márcio attempted an outrageous backheeled lob during the Brazilian league game against Jaraguá on Monday ... and scored.
Márcio received the ball from his goalkeeper and, twisting his body, took aim with a backheel as it hit the ground. The Jaraguá goalkeeper, on the edge of his area, was caught out as the ball flew over him and into the net. Incredible scenes.
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Tim Howard made 15 saves in one match, James Rodríguez scored six goals in five games and Toni Kroos touched the ball 730 times, but which footballer stood up when it really counted and folded his arms with the proper combination of confidence, panache and charisma? Benoît Assou-Ekotto, that's who. The World Cup is long gone but incase you missed it, this feature is well worth checking out.
The world went to war a century ago and, like all aspects of society, sport suffered its casualties. As Huw Richards puts it in this retrospective article for ESPN: "Trench warfare, which periodically sent men over the top in doomed assaults on machine-gun toting adversaries, might have been designed specifically as a means of killing rugby players."
