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Guti’s Backheel: Don’t Believe the Hype!

// February 2nd, 2010 // Uncategorized

This week, everyone is in love with Guti’s backheel.   According to The Independent, it was “outrageous.”  According to the coach of Deportivo, Real Madrid’s opponent and victim of said backheel, it means that he should be part of the Spain squad for the World Cup.  Even more incredibly, Spanish national coach Vicente del Bosque (Vinny of the Forest), actually said that the “Backheel of God”  has opened to door for Guti to be a part of the team in South Africa.

 

Are you kidding me?  Yeah, yeah, yeah, it was very nice.  But I’m here to remove the large piece of wool that’s been hanging over everyone’s eyes.  THE ONLY REASON HE DID IT WAS BECAUSE HE CAN’T SHOOT WITH HIS RIGHT FOOT.   Just watch it again.  He really should shoot that ball.  But Guti, who is marvelous with his left, has never been able to do much with his weaker leg.  (In Spanish the term for a weaker leg is “pierna de palo”, sort of translate as wooden leg.  In Holland, apparently, it’s “chocolate leg,” which I guess is related to excrement.)  I think that Guti loses major points because a backheel was not the play there.  If Benzema doesn’t finish, then Madrid is still only up 0-1 away and we’d be talking about Guti like he was, say… Robinho.

It’s true that, as a Barca fan, I’m not the most objective person here.  I do, indeed, hate Guti with a passion.  But I also hate Raul.  However, when I first tried to think of a authentically wonderful backheel, this was the first that sprung to mind:

Now that my friends, is a backheel.  It was Raul’s only option, and it was absolutely perfect.  It didn’t hurt that Morientes took it like a champ, and finished well.  And what a mullet on Morientes.  Glorious.

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