Back in January, we wrote a about a U9 team that played like a certain black and yellow team in the Bundesliga. Seeing that amount of skill at such a young age is always a pleasure to behold. It brings to mind the words of Eric Cantona in those Joga Bonito commercials of old: “When you are kid, it’s easy…You do it, just because you like it.” And well, those kids loved to score some pretty goals.
As it happened, that article actually found its way to the coach of the team in the video, Richard Chresta, who contacted us and set the record straight: they are not German, but Swiss, a part of BSC Old Boys located in Basel, Switzerland. Oh and those goals we saw before? Yeah, those were just the tip of the ice berg.
Bicycle kicks are exceptionally rare to see in general, and even rarer to see successfully converted. So you can imagine our surprise when Richard sent us video of his U9 Old Boys pulling off a bonafide over head strike.
Stand up and take a bow, Old Boys. That was absolute class. Professional teams go years without scoring a bicycle kick. Cristiano Ronaldo tried to get one for years. You know what that means? Cristiano Ronaldo envies you. That is an achievement that every single one of you will be able to hold on to for the rest of your lives, because you all had a part in making it happen.
