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Norway player in awesome bicycle kick

Norwegian Elite Series footballer Matthias Vilhjalmsson has pulled off one of the finest bicycle kicks in football history, showing that the technique is not the sole preserve of Latin players.

Norway player in awesome bicycle kick
Matthias Vilhjalmsson as he executes his extraordinary kick. Photo: Screen Grab from YouTube
Vilhjalmsson, who plays for Kristiansand's IK Start team, sailed the ball past Ålesund’s goalkeeper to secure the team’s 3:1 victory. 
 
 
“It’s the sickest goal in the Elite League this year, that’s for sure,” former Norway striker Ole Martin Årst, a commentator for the C More channel, said. 
 
“It’s the most beautiful thing we’ve seen in football Norway in 2015,”  Mons Ivar Mjelde, IK Start’s coach added.
 
 
 
The bicycle kick, known in Norwegian as a “Brazilian kick”,  involves throwing the body up into the air and making a shearing movement with the legs in order to hit a ball at head height. 
 
Even Pelé, one of the most famous proponents of the technique, described it as “not easy to do” and the kick is rarely seen in actual matches. 
 
The Swedish player Zlatan Ibrahimovic pulled off an arguably even more impressive example in 2012. 
 
 

 

Here's Zlatan Ibrahimovic's incredible goal from 2012, which won him Fifa's Goal of the Year award. 

 

RACISM

VIDEO: Spain’s La Liga reviews video of boy racially abusing Vinicius

Spain's La Liga on Monday said it was reviewing a video of a child making racist insults towards Real Madrid forward Vinicius Junior during the 2-2 draw with Valencia at the weekend.

VIDEO: Spain's La Liga reviews video of boy racially abusing Vinicius

“We’re in the process of studying and analysing the facts from a legal standpoint to see what we can and should do,” La Liga sources said.

In a video published by a journalist for ESPN Brasil, and picked up by Spanish media, a boy sitting in a woman’s lap can be heard calling Vinicius a “monkey”.

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The Brazilian scored twice for Madrid as his team recovered from two goals down at Mestalla on Saturday.

Vinicius raised his fist in a “Black Power” salute after the first of his two goals at a ground where he was racially abused last season. Valencia subsequently banned three people from the stadium for life.

The 23-year-old has become a symbol of the fight against discrimination in Spanish football after suffering racist abuse on many occasions, and he was jeered repeatedly by home supporters on Saturday.

Jude Bellingham was sent off after the final whistle against Valencia for protesting after the referee blew the final whistle right before the England midfielder headed home what he thought was the winning goal.

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