Kick is one of the most important elements of football, this game of millions. Without it goals are impossible, which, in turn, are the main goal of the game, its culmination and apotheosis. Beautiful and powerful blows delight all fans, specialists, and colleagues in the profession. Many world football stars have a blow of crushing power.
Immediately offhand, you can recall Juninho Pernambucano, who became famous for his perfect power and accuracy penalties throughout Europe, being a player in the Lyon club. The Dutch midfielder Frank de Boer was always famous for his "shots" of extraordinary power. Now, perhaps the most powerful blow in football at the Brazilian striker of St. Petersburg "Zenith" Hulk (Zinivaldu de Souza). The Hulk, while still a Porto player, in the Champions League match scored Shakhtar Donetsk with a direct shot from a free kick from a distance of forty meters. The ball was sent with such force that it simply “punched” the hands of the goalkeeper who managed to react and stuck into the net. After the match, the Pitmen's goalkeeper Alexander Rybka admitted that he had not yet encountered such a phenomenal force and such an incredible trajectory.
For the Hulk, this is far from an isolated case - he regularly demonstrates something similar. It’s just that the trend of modern world football is such that technical means for fixing such moments are used only at large and ranking tournaments, such as the Champions League, world and European championships.
In the eighties, the strongest blow in football belonged to Ronald Kuman, whose goalkeepers were afraid of all goalkeepers in Europe. Not every goalkeeper could react to the ball sent by his foot. The great defender of the Munich “Bavaria” and “Bundestim” Lothar Mateus also once claimed the title of player with the most severe blow in football. In general, this list can be continued indefinitely. But still, who has the biggest blow in football? There are several answers to this question.
For a long time, the unofficial title of the player with the strongest blow in football was retained by the legendary Roberto Carlos. This extreme defender, who played for his long and succesful career in many famous clubs - Brazilian Palmeiras and Corinthians, Milan Inter, Real Madrid, Istanbul Fenerbahçe, became famous not so much for his reliable defensive actions and outstanding speed qualities (which he also possessed in full), how much as the owner of a blow of fantastic strength.
Penalties Roberto Carlos will forever remain his main "calling card". After its impact, the ball flew with fantastic speed along a completely unpredictable trajectory, violating all the laws of aerodynamics, and landed already in the corner of the goal. True, over the years, the frequency of hitting a target with such "deadly shots" has somewhat decreased. But even at the end of his career, playing out in Anzhi in Makhachkala, Roberto Carlos sometimes upset his rivals with his irresistible blows. He made his first free kick in the championship of Russia at the goal of the Nalchik Spartak.
The officially recorded record now belongs to German striker of Polish origin Lukas Podolski, who had never before been famous for cannon strikes. At the 2010 World Cup in the Republic of South Africa in the Bundestima match against the Australians in the eighth minute of the meeting, Prince Poldi set a record, becoming the player with the most severe blow in football. The ball launched by him, as if from a sling, from a distance of sixteen meters was accelerated to a speed of 201 km / h.