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Peter Fitzpatrick·9 April 2025

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

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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.

The Brazilian icon might have been on Rice's mind last night when he stepped up, and who could blame him?

📸 JEAN-PIERRE CLATOT - 2007 AFP

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