Roberto Carlos's extraordinary free kick for Brazil has gone down in history. Tony Marshall/EMPICS via Getty Images. This article was first published on June 3, 2017 and has been edited.

Everybody loves a good free-kick goal. Some of the very best live long in the memory, few of them more so than Roberto Carlos' wicked effort for the Brazilian national team against France ...

Roberto Carlos never 'took' a free kick. He thunder-[insert funny expletive]-ed it. And so, with a puffing out of his cheeks, he placed the ball down and paced backwards to sketch out his run-up.

Roberto Carlos' free kick goal against France in 1997's Tournoi de France is thought by many to have been the most skillful free kick goal ever scored but by others to have been an incredible fluke.

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Roberto Carlos' free kick against France in 1997. Here's a video clip of the shot - which may be even more miraculous than Diego Maradona's storied World Cup goal against England in 1986.

He remains one of the most celebrated free-kick takers in the history of football, having recorded a conversion rate in La Liga of 4.5%, and he once revealed who, in his eyes, were the three best ...

Declan Rice’s stunning free-kick double against Real Madrid on Tuesday will be etched in memory for a long time.His first, from just under 30 yards out, bent around Thibaut Courtois' wall ...

Roberto Carlos' free kick goal against France in 1997's Tournoi de France is thought by many to have been the most skillful free kick goal ever scored but by others to have been an incredible fluke.