These Long Shots Will Remind You How Much Better The Pros Are Than the Rest Of Us

Nothing reminds you more of how you could never make it as a professional footballer than moseying on over to your local park and taking a few long shots. First, you’ll notice how incredibly inaccurate you are, and how incredibly frustrating it can be to get the ball to do what you want it to do: you mean to bend it far post and high but it goes near post and low; you go for power and just send it straight at the keeper’s chest. You try to chip it and, well, you most definitely do not succeed. If anthropologists conducted a study on the quality of communication between the average joe’s foot and head, they would find them to be absolutely f***ed, scientifically speaking.

Therein lies the miracle of the greatest professional footballers. Their tale takes them to a level at which they can “put it where they want it.” Do they get lucky? Sure, and there’s nothing wrong with that. Their have been some great goals all along the spectrum that lies between supreme command and blind luck, and this video has them all.