🎥 Declan Rice? A look at the free-kick master Juninho's best for Lyon 😍

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Peter Fitzpatrick·9 de abril de 2025

🎥 Declan Rice? A look at the free-kick master Juninho's best for Lyon 😍

Declan Rice is rightly hogging the headlines right now after his two stunning free-kicks in Arsenal's statement win over Real Madrid, but to many, free-kicks remind them of one man: Juninho Pernambucano.

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The Brazilian scored exactly 100 goals in a glorious eight-year spell with Lyon in the 2000s, with a ridiculous 44 of them coming from deadball situations.

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He was a master of the knuckleball technique that so other players have adopted, but could also curl them, float them, and do just about anything and from almost any distance.