Comments by "Lynott Parris" (@DenUitvreter) on "NFL Fan First Time Watching Football Highlights!" video.

In terms of pure ball control, he and Maradona quite a bit above the other big stars football has ever known.
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5.19 I think that is Ronaldinho and he was insanely good, especially when it comes to pure ball control which is of course only a part of being a good player. He and Maradona are just wired differently between their super quick brains and legs, they operate in a different time from regular humans, they have always more of it. He takes all the speed out of the descending ball with the slightest movement of his big toe to have it dead on his feet for the next move, and than does an akka through the legs. That's so hard to do, the first touch is the hardest part of football and most about pure talent. Most very good highly payed technically good players need a yard to get such a high ball under control, he needs 1cm. The akka is beyond most good players too, no matter how much they practice, it takes both super quick feet and a great velvet touch. Through the legs is seen as an humiliation not to be tolerated by defenders even in practice, so that is very hard to do too.
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@Robalogot He was actually quite a poor free kick taker, he needed about 20 of them for a single goal. This one was a great one but the camera angle made it more legendary and made Roberto Carlos far more legendary as a free kick taker than deserved.
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@omlg4svector No, he's one of the closest but his class is a bit less about ultimate ball control.
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@yakoobski Other players must have looked to be in slowmotion to him.
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@rogeriopenna9014 The balls have changed a lot so that is not a good comparison. I'm not saying he never was a good free kick taker but at a certain point he had this legendary status because of that one camara shot from years ago and was the alpha male in his team, and he simply kept demanding the ball and kept missing.
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