Football physics: The 'impossible' free kick - Erez Garty

In 1997, Brazilian football player Roberto Carlos set up for a 35 meter free kick with no direct line to the goal. Carlos’s shot sent the ball flying wide of the players, but just before going out of bounds it hooked to the left and soared into the net. How did he do it? Erez Garty describes the physics behind one of the most magnificent goals in the history of football.

Lesson by Erez Garty, animation by TOGETHER.

[beardedbread]

Roberto Carlos calculated the velocity of the earth minus the pressure of the stadium divided by the number of fans all in mla format the moment he decided to kick the ball

[ahmedhossam]

Carlos be watching this rn and say, " i did all of this?"

[Vinnyly]

Carlos should’ve walked out of that game with a Phd in physics

[AndreChadu]

English: "Magnus effect"
Brazil: TRIVELA

[laszlolorenzi]

English: physics*
Brazil: Gol Gol Gol Gool*

[justinfung]

Everyone is thanking them for saying football but no one appreciates their effort for researching, voicing and animating these videos.

[walidwazini]

Roberto kicked with his left-foot bro.

[vforvendetta]

Good luck with explaining the knuckle ball shot haha

[AhmadAhmad-juef]

Plot twist:Carlos was a scientist and calculated everything

[raz]

_Magnus effect_ should be renamed to the _Carlos effect_

[moisesmunoz]

I still remeber that goal. Good times.

[abbieamavi]

*I love that you called it properly football, and the animation is so good!*

[crispin]

As a fan of both football and physics, thank you. Carlos’ kick is world renown not only because it’s magnus affect curvature but also given the game it was in. I’d love for y’all to breakdown the knuckleball kick next!

[VRebuli]

I hoped to see actual footage of the goal in the video...

[presza]

We Brazilians call this effect as TRIVELA, tri come from the number of fingers that touch the ball, and vela from candle that i cant explain, not a problem to brazilians, we've created some words out of nowhere.

[christiansukitch]

"Must go in the same direction"

Carlos broke the law






Get rekt Newton

[ndbiet]

Foot + ball = Football
Hand + egg = Handegg

[dixie_rekd]

i've never heard it called a "banana kick" before >.<

[peraltaisrael]

I remember watching this game live as a kid and I couldn’t believe it.

[tsoemvf]

As someone who has played football for most of my life, i've seen this goal so many times, but I never knew the actual complex physics behind it. Great explanation