The Argentine midfielder, now at LaLiga club Sevilla, has scored goals using the technique on more than one occasion. It's a neat bit of flair that comes with the added weight of being very embarrassing if you try to use it in a game and it doesn't work.įew soccer players have made it work for them as well as Lamela, one of the world's foremost rabona practitioners in recent years. In the soccer world, that type of kick is called a rabona. The broadcasters and plenty of fans online could only think to call it a 'behind-the-leg kick,' or a trick shot, which is understandable coming from a country that made people like Dude Perfect rich and famous. The Jets trailed the New England Patriots by five points, and still had a remote chance of winning the game if they could perform an onside kick (an American football maneuver where the team that just scored can receive the ball once again from kick off, provided they can get hold of the ball once its traveled 10 yards, and before the opposing team can catch the same ball).Īnd Jets punter/kickoff specialist Braden Mann had a special move to pull off the improbable onside kick: a 'rabona.'Īnd now some explanation is needed for the American football crowd, if the commentary on the play is any indication.

And on Sunday, football footballed in a way we've never seen football football before.

Sometimes, however, football and football collide in interesting and unexpected ways. means the egg-shaped sport more akin to rugby, whereas the world's game goes by the colloquial English shortening of the 'association football' term: soccer. In terms of popular culture and how language has evolved, football in the U.S. If you're talking about football in the United States, you're usually talking about the gridiron variety. Stream on ESPN+: LaLiga, Bundesliga, MLS, more (U.S.) Adam Snavely compares Mann's 'rabona' attempt to Lamela's, soccer's leading specialist in the technique. New York Jets punter Braden Mann attempted a kick in an NFL game on Sunday that would have made former Tottenham Hotspur star Erik Lamela proud.

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