7 showboating skills in football

#5 The Carretilha/ Rainbow Flick

A Rainbow Flick being done perfectly

So you want to lob the ball over a defender and run to it only you want to look all sexy while doing it? Carretilha is the way to go for you, Muchacho! You take the ball and roll it up the back of your standing leg and then flick it in rotor fashion right over the defenders head and run into the ball as the defender follows the looping trajectory of the ball as it falls right into your feet.

This was a kick made famous by our very own happy Brazilian, Ronaldinho and more recently by Neymar but the most famous Rainbow Flick of this century is the one Turkish footballer, Ilhan Mansiz pulled on world-class left-back Roberto Carlos at the 2002 World Cup.