Bicycle kick

The bicycle kick is a technique used in football, to play the ball or gives away the opponent's goal.

The bicycle kick is a special variant of the retractor and the scissor shock. The player stands with his back to his goal, can be lightly jump falling backwards onto his back and hits the ball with the instep volley. The ball flies over the head of the player and lands ideally in gate or is removed by the defender in front of goal.

Experts call the Fallrückzieher also bicicleta, which comes from the Brazilian Portuguese and bicycle means ( english bicycle kick ).

The scissors kick is the simpler version of the overhead kick, in which the player kicking the ball in the air - but not on his own head - shoots and ends up sideways.

Several football players argue today for the title of " inventor of the overhead kick ." For many of the Italian Carlo Parola regarded as the inventor, but to the Brazilian Leônidas da Silva 1938 1939 with a bicycle kick to score at 6:5 against Poland in Strasbourg and the Italian footballer Silvio Piola against Germany. Another theory comes from Chile. 1914 should have Ramon Unzaga accomplished and be found in Chile, however, the case over from the 1927 Chilean David Arellano has become internationally known, which is therefore called in the Spanish-speaking world la chilena.

As the " King of the overhead kick " is considered the former German national player Klaus Fischer, whose Fallrückziehertor was selected from the 1976/77 season in Germany by viewers of the ARD Goal of the Century.

Also in Germany, was elected to the gate of the year a bicycle kick of Sweden Zlatan Ibrahimović. The peculiarity was that he used the technique to score against the goalie had hurried out from a great distance by inches.