This video, made by Peradze, is for true soccer lovers. Anyone can appreciate a goal, but your ability to recognize a pass, a truly transcendent pass, is what separates real fans from those that tune in one summer every four years.
Goals usually get all of the attention. We yearn for the solo run or the thunderbolt strike from the time we are old enough to appreciate what a goal is. Appreciating the perfect pass, an amazing assist, takes more time. You need to understand things like weight, timing and angle. The players in this video have mastered all of these things, and in doing so have created the most beautiful passes of all time.
This countdown showcases the kind of art the world’s most renowned thieves dream of stealing. These masterpieces painted by Zidane, Pirlo, Maradona, Bergkamp, and Kaka are worth more than their weight in gold, and, wouldn’t you believe it, we get to watch them all for free: