Friday, April 8, 2011

The Great "Elastico" - Flip Flap

This is my tribute to the Great Roberto Rivelino. The player that brought the "Elastico" or Flip-Flap Dribble to Outdoor Soccer from Futsal. I was lucky enough to see him play live many times and what a surprise I had when he nutmegeed a player and scored a great goal:




Nowadays many players can do it. Some of the images below are from the 1974 World Cup.



And here is a fantastic compilation of the same move by other players:


As you can see from these videos this is a great move to get through defenders because the ball suddenly goes from one side to the other. As if an elastic pulled it to the opposite direction.

If you try it a few times you will get it!

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