You Say Rabona, I Say Crossed-Kick

By: Bob | May 8th, 2007

Now that the term Rabona is firmly a part of my active vocabulary – too bad I didn’t know it when I took my college entrance exams – it is time to celebrate the move with a YouTube video replete with rockin’ music and loads of players doing it without much purpose. For those scoring at home, I typed this post doing a Rabona with my arms. Remarkably the grammar and spelling are as lousy as always. Thanks for teaching me something new today, kids. This learnin’ thing is kinda fun.

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• frank |  May 8th, 2007 at 2:01 pm

  
  
  

  The Vazquez goal was the first time I’d seen a goal scored on a rabona, but here’s one by Dave de Jong from a couple years ago in Germany. It seems like a bizarre thing to try, but in this clip de Jong says he practiced them since he was a kid, so when he saw the ball and didn’t think he could quite reach it with his left foot, his intuition was to just do a rabona. Pretty awesome.

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WO2qqrI-0DQ

  First time I ever saw this move was in a Harry Kewell adidas advert:

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wS71piu3__I

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• Trent |  May 8th, 2007 at 5:01 pm

  
  
  

  I sorta can’t believe I didn’t know (at the least, had forgotten) such a cool term! And what a sweet goal.

  Also, “loads of players doing it without much purpose.”? Slightly disappointing. I can’t decide if that refers to the latest Sunderland sex tape or Arsenal’s inability to score goals after 23-pass set-ups.

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• Mac |  May 8th, 2007 at 5:24 pm

  
  
  

  btb, “rabo” refers to an animal’s tail in Spanish… which I think might be where the term originates.

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• Diane |  May 8th, 2007 at 7:44 pm

  
  
  

  Could not imagine a better description of Sunderland Sex Tape! It should absolutely be the sub-title on the DVD jacket. (At least some of Arsenal’s passes might have been attractive even when they failed to finish…)

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• Gav |  May 11th, 2007 at 2:58 pm

  
  
  

  go man united YAY HOO WON THE PREMIERSHIP WOOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOOOOO SUCK ME OFF CHELSEA WOOOOOO GLORY GLORY MAN UNITEDDDDDD GLORY GLORY MAN UNITEDDDDDDD AND THE SAINTS GO MARCHING BY WOOOOOO SUCK ME OFF CHELSEA WE WON IT BAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH

  lol p.s y is every1 talking to correct? :S:S:S:S:S:S:S:S

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• V-SPOT |  August 1st, 2007 at 10:54 pm

  
  
  

  vasquez’s is a little less than 10 times better than this but this is my personal favorite, courtesy of the boy cristiano:

  http://youtube.com/watch?v=WTawK2aXZCY

  too bad ruud was uncharacteristically wasteful.

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