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Colombian goalkeeper Rene Higuita always gave the impression of being on the wrong end of the pitch. Against England in a friendly at Wembley in 1995, he unveiled the ’scorpion kick’ clearing a Jamie Redknapp cross with an acrobatic, two-footed, overhead kick. Watch it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCxe4r6SjH0
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Football so stylish
From Cruyff and Neeskens, we quickly jump eight years to the team of Zico and Socrates. The 1982 Brazil side played football so stylish that it remains in many people’s eyes the greatest side never to win a World Cup, despite not even making the semifinals. Watch out, quite early in this video, […]
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Weaving patterns
This week, our selection of videos focuses on two iconic football sides, neither of which managed a World Cup win. First up, 1974 runner-up Holland, led by the legendary Johan Cruyff, weaving the mesmeric patterns of Total Football in their technicolour orange jerseys. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6bKk8Gr6fI&feature=related
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Spin guru
Coach Terry Jenner — Shane Warne’s mentor — provides basic leg-spin bowling tips. Watch him elaborate on the five different deliveries at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puDkf9uNXPQ&feature=related, or type Cricket: Shane Warne’s five spin deliveries.
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Football moves
Brazilian Robinho has some delightfully devious dribbles and moves up his sleeve. Watch them and learn at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJO_DJfhMkk&feature=related, or type ‘Robinho gives some tips’
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1) This week, our selection of videos focuses on music inspired by sport. And what better than to begin with a Calypso, Egbert Moore aka Lord Beginner’s ‘Victory Test’, or ‘Cricket, lovely Cricket’, written after the West Indies won its first ever Test on English soil, at Lord’s in 1950. The chief architects of the […]
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If catches win matches, this one should have won a whole series. Search for ‘Adam Voges’ and ‘catch’ to see the Aussie’s impossible boundary-line feat.
Still with fielding prowess, watch an air-borne Jonty Rhodes direct his body at the stumps for one of the most famous ODI run outs. Search simultaneously for ‘Jonty Rhodes’, ‘run out’ […]
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The 2006 Commonwealth Games held in Melbourne was the turning point in paddler Sharath Kamal’s career. With the win, he put Indian table tennis on the world map. Watch a glimpse of the engrossing final against William Henzell of Australia where Sharath is at his attacking best. Despite the background music being a distraction, it’s […]
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For all his single mindedness, Ivan Lendl couldn’t break the Wimbledon myth. In an illustrious career, the American World No.1 failed at the summit of the All England Championships twice. His best and last chance came in the 1987 final when he took on Australia’s Pat Cash. Cash won the contest in three straight sets […]
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Basketball’s a fantastic sport to watch, for it lends itself to spectacle. Dunking contests have been popular for a while now—indeed, this column has recommended a couple of videos in the past.This week, we take a look at “ankle breakers”: dribbling and body feints and direction changes that leave the guards in a tangle. There […]
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