#1 Roberto Carlos
And the man with the ultimate uncanny abilities to score absolute blinders. He used to score goals so unbelievable that it became the subject of discussion among physicists as to whether they broke the laws of nature.
Watching them with the naked eye would make you realise that they did. They were insane, the very personification of the word. Sometimes it makes me wonder as to whether the word was invented just to describe Roberto Carlos’ goals.
His outside-boot free-kicks were the stuff of legends. Actually, sod that and follow this: his outside-boot kicks were the stuff of Roberto Carlos and Roberto Carlos alone. No one comes close to what he could have done with the outside of the boot.
Man, screw that goal against France and watch that goal he scored from the byline against Tenerife. The poor goalkeeper thought that he was going for a cross, but the Brazilian had only one intention: to ‘banana’ it in to the goal.
Roberto Carlos claims that Marcelo is more talented than he was, but there is nobody in the world that could score goals like that. Not Leo Messi, not Cristiano Ronaldo, not Zlatan Ibrahimovic… no-frigging-body.