Goderdzi Makharadze – Good at Headers

With today’s Champions League semi final heavily influenced by a certain player’s inability to direct a football with his head, here’s video of a man who can. Georgian Goderdzi Makharadze broke the record for heading a soccer ball in the ’90s, by keeping a ball in the air with his head for 8 hours, 12 minutes and 25 seconds, on 26 May, 1996. Makharadze was unemployed and living in a boxcar at the time.

However, that record was broken by Tomas Lundman of Sweden, who kept the ball in the air for 8 hours 32 minutes and three seconds on 27 February 2004.

Both men could probably teach John Arne Riise a thing or two.

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