To anyone who’d been watching closely at the 2014 World Cup, Rojo’s rabona agianst Almaty Kairat would not have come as a surprise.Īgain, he makes decent contact with this. Football on BT Sport September 19, 2019 Marcos Rojo and totally unnecessary rabonas… If any game does not scream, ‘Have a go at a rabona cross while you’re off balance and there’s a massive defender standing right in front of you’, it is also this. If any game screams, ‘Just get the job done’, it is this. Thursday night, Europa League group stage, playing the champions of Kazakhstan. But its futility is enough to make us question life itself. Technically, this rabona is nowhere near as bad as Dunn’s. Happy 18th birthday to one of the great moments in Premier League history – David Dunn's attempted rabona. The worst thing for me was when I went into Currys in Blackburn once and I must have seen about 100 TVs on the wall and thought ‘Bloody hell, I’m on every TV.’” “I’d say I had a reasonably good career and it is just a shame all you are remembered for is a stupid trick you tried. In 2015, he told the Independent: “Unfortunately my little boy is seven and all his mates constantly take the piss out of me in the garden with it. He swung his left right around the back of his left and… well, it was tragicomic.

He saw the opportunity to get the ball into the box. Where else can we start? The daddy of all shit rabonas, the king of the hill when it comes to miserable attempts at looking flash.ĭunn was playing for Birmingham in the derby against Villa in 2003. Here, we’ve picked out nine of the shittest attempted rabonas in footballing history, to remind you just how wonderful it is when it goes wrong. And, let’s face it, the attempts that don’t come off are just as enjoyable as those that do – for the crowd, if not for the player that tries it. When pulled off with panache, there is no more aesthetically pleasing way to strike a football.īut not all professional footballers are Ronaldinho, not all of them can strike a rabona like Erik Lamela did against Arsenal.

There are few better sounds in a stadium than when a player pulls off an exquisite bit of skill and the whole crowd simultaneously gasps in appreciation.Īnd the rabona is among any fan’s favourite move.

Marcos rojo attempt a rabona