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Who is this Ray Boner and when did he perform this footie trick the very first time?
Seriously, I've only come across Rabona for the first time in this thread,can someone please explain the derivation of this footie skill term?
the Taarabt nutmeg I prefer the Roeder shuffle the Cruyff turn the Blanco hop thr Higuita scorpion the Captain Nazi collapse ...all these I'm familiar with but WTF does the term rabona come from?
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Lamela's first goal for Spurs on 02:19 - Oct 24 with 1932 views
I have always rated him (ever since he started out at River Plate).
He was the one shining light in a team that finished 6th but still got relegated (due to the stupid relegation on point average across three seasons, that we have in Argentina).
Did well at Roma. Struggles a bit at Spurs, but who doesn't, right?
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Lamela's first goal for Spurs on 10:05 - Oct 24 with 1751 views
yes it was a good goal, but for SkySports news and everyone else who thinks football took off only in 2002 it is not the Greatest goal ever scored infact I see them goals scored all the time down at the Power league on a Wednesday night never in a million years will it beat Tricky Trevs overhead, nothing comes close
And Bowles is onside, Swinburne has come rushing out of his goal , what can Bowles do here , onto the left foot no, on to the right foot
That’s there that’s two, and that’s Bowles
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Lamela's first goal for Spurs on 12:18 - Oct 24 with 1580 views
Lamela's - and Sinclair's - are great but I still prefer this one:
RFA
"Things had started becoming increasingly desperate at Loftus Road but QPR have been handed a massive lifeline and the place has absolutely erupted. it's carnage. It's bedlam. It's 1-1."
Lamela's first goal for Spurs on 10:05 - Oct 24 by Pommyhoop
''Seriously, I've only come across Rabona for the first time in this thread,can someone please explain the derivation of this footie skill term? ''
Apparently 'Rabona'' means to bunk off school in Spanish. So its a truant goal or street kid goal.. Thats my take on it anyway
Tenner says H mentions this goal in the pre Villa presser...
Smart goal tho..
That is correct, mate.
Though it's a term that is no longer used by kids to refer to the act in which you don't attend to your classes even when everybody thinks you're there (especially your parents, obviously). You leave your home like any normal day. Dressed up for school and holding your books, etc, except you take a detour somewhere and skip it.
It wasn't even as widely used (at least here in Argentina) when I was going to high school. As we would use "Hacerse la rata" (do a thing rats would do and escape -would be my best attempt to translate that).
"Hacerse la rabona" was more used in previous generations to mine (I was born in 1977).
For us...it has always been a term related to football and to what Lamela did yesterday.
Where does it come from?
The magazine El Gráfico was the most influential publication when it comes to football in this part of the world. There was a striker who played for Estudiantes de La Plata who was called Ricardo Infante.
I guess I don't need to add a translation to what his surname means in English.
Well...turns out Infante was quite good at football and he scored a rabona goal. Only back then it wasn't know as rabona. So they did a cartoon on the player and the writer went with a headline which read: "El Infante que se hizo la rabona" (The Infant that did a rabona).
And so it stayed. This was in 1948.
The original definition of rabona according to the ruler of the Spanish language (La Real Academia Española) says:
That goal was stunning. Easily top five ever. The only think that keeps it out of the top three is that it was unnecessary. He could have hit it with his right and arguably the technique made it unnecessarily harder. That said, who cares? It was amazing.
Behind Trev, that Fulham goal vs Palace last season and a goal that RVP scored for Utd a couple of years back that blew my mind.
Spurs were on fire yesterday to be fair.
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Lamela's first goal for Spurs on 15:52 - Oct 24 with 1392 views
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