Did a German's bicycle kick outshine Zlatan's?
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As the football world continues to gush over Swedish star striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic’s stunning goal against England, a German player has claimed that his triumphant 1977 goal was even better. Watch the videos (below) and chime in with your own views on The Local's Have Your Say.
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“I watched [Zlatan's] goal on television,” Fischer told the Hamburger Morgenpost newspaper.
“It was sensational – something that makes your heart flutter. You don’t see a goal like that every day, which is why you always remember them,” he said.
“I don’t want to blow my own trumpet, but my backwards kick was more difficult from a technical point of view than Ibrahimovic's."
Klaus Fischer's bicycle kick in a 1977 friendly game between Germany and Switzerland
"With mine, the cross came from the side. I had to hit the goal perfectly from the air, with my back to the goal, and also get past the goalkeeper."
"Zlatan's goal was perhaps more eye-catching, but it was also more straight-forward," claimed Fischer.
Zlatan's 'greatest goal' (and his penalty goal beforehand)
“Zlatan was very far from the goal. But the box was empty. Had he gotten the ball from a defender and not from the goalie he would have certainly not have tried such a thing.”
But was his goal anywhere near the quality of Zlatan's? Or was there another goal in footballing history that trounces both?
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Zlatan had time to think, he backed off Joe Hart because he anticipated a poor clearance. In Harts defence he had a bad bounce, he was waiting to hoof it up the pitch.
That aside I'd go with Zlatan's for all the reasons mentioned above even though I hate the guy.
Look up best bicycle kicks on youtube and you find dozens that were more difficult.
The greatest about this goal is the distance....really special.
What it missed was a goal keeper in the goal, a faster pass (which makes the timing more difficult) and the fact that it was going in an arc, instead of being a straight fast kick.
Brazil holds the ball for several minutes passing and dribling in a marvelous play pele gets the ball , tostao points that Carlos Alberto Torres was coming in on the right side , pele passes the ball without looking and Carlos Alberto Torres comes out of nowhere like a bullet train and scores. an amazing goal filled with teamwork, now thats footbal.
Zlatan goal was pretty but lucky the goalkeeper made a HUGE screw up.
if we are going to say its the best just because it was a bycicle then id prefer Batistutas bycicle in fiorentina.
but even then that was just a really awesome goal not the goal of goals like the one from Carlos Alberto Torres in 1970.
Its like all the people nowadays have short memory of the last 60 years of football when they say stupid stuff like "best of all time this or that".
It's not about how it was scored, it's about when.
An irrelevant goal in a training match just doesn't cut it. It has to be at the end of a cracking final, and it has to be match winner. I't very subjective, but for me, it's Ricky Villa's match winning goal in the FA Cup Final 1981. For Manchester United supporters, it has to be Solsjkeer in Bayern Munich v Manchester United, Champions league final 1999. I expect Aguero's Premier League winner this year must have felt pretty good too if you were a Manchester City fan this year.
Zlatan's goal was pleasant enough for Sweden's supporters, but what goal can possibly match a moment like any of those three, or some other cup final/league match winner?
http://edition.cnn.com/2012/11/15/sport/football/zlatan-ibrahimovic-sweden-england-football/index.html?hpt=isp_t5
Zlatin Rocks Zlatan is king
Zlatans goal although pretty is definitely not the best goal ever, its like people lose their memory and only know what happened last week. The goal from batistuta when he was playing in fiorentina was much cooler because it didnt include the huge screw up from the goalkeeper on the Zlatan goal.
The best goal of all time is from Carlos Alberto Torres against italy in 1970. a perfect goal where almost the entire brazilian team passed the ball around and at the end tostao tells pele Carlos Alberto Torres is coming in from the right side. Pele passes the ball without looking , and Carlos Alberto Torres comes out of nowhere like a bullet train , in the last second the ball bounces up from a grass patch and Carlos Alberto Torres shoots it like a bazooka.
perfect display of teamwork in what is regarded officially as the best national team of all time , they also went on to win that world cup.
in football fans should stop talking about best of this and best of that and take whats good from all.
Funny thing is the goalkeepers screw up is one big screw up and no one is talking about that lol
Ibrahimovic's goal would be the tougher one to replicate because it so much farther out. Honestly Zlatan got a bit lucky I think.
I'd say Zlatan's is more impressive because of the distance.
The same accounts for the bicycle kick of Wayne Rooney a few years ago against Manchester City. This goal has a close resemblance with the Klaus Fischer goal, but was the winning goal (3 - 2) in the penultimate minute of the game in a city derby, in one of the most admired competitions of the world.
Nevertheless Zlatans goal was amazing, and I enjoyed it very much.
Belittlement or envy, or plain pigheadedness. It matters but little.
Could they have done it better themselves?
Of course - - - - -not. Never in a million years. Grow up, get a life, and accept a great goal for what it was - a great goal.