Welcome to another week of Trending: NYCFC’s weekly round-up of the best soccer content online from the past seven days.
We kick off this week’s entry with yet another contender for Premier League goal of the season.
Carroll Acrobatics
We’ve seen a couple of stunning strikes over the past few weeks from Henrikh Mkhitaryan and Olivier Giroud but this one from Andy Carroll for West Ham might have them beat.
To celebrate, West Ham have released this infographic with some of the numbers behind the bicycle/scissor/overhead (delete as applicable) kick.
… and they’ve put together a video of the hit from 10 different angles.
Ronaldinho’s Letter
More sterling work from the Player’s Tribune here as they house a letter from Brazilian legend Ronaldinho to his eight-year old self.
This is a truly inspiring read for any kid trying to make it in the beautiful game from the most-gifted player of his generation…
Il Maestro: MKII
Jack Harrison channelling his inner-Pirlo on his trip to Los Angeles for the SuperDraft. Uncanny!
Juventus Rebrand
To Italy, where Juventus have launched a new club logo and “visual identity”.
According to the accompanying literature, the crest is “The result of a bold, uncompromising approach, the new visual identity turns the sport’s traditional style on its head and sets about blazing a new trail.”
It’s certainly pleasing on the eye.
Russian Lols
Leave it to Russian Football National League club FC Yenisey Krasnoyarsk to bring the lols with this parody of The Old Lady’s rebrand.
Well played.
Like Father, Like Son
Staying with Juventus, there was a great little subplot in Florence on Saturday where Fiorentina beat the Serie A leaders 2-1.
Juve ‘keeper Gigi Buffon was a teammate of Enrico Chiesa at Parma when the latter’s son Federico was born in October 1997 and the 19-year old actually faced off against his father’s former colleague on Sunday.
Effectively it’s a Star Wars plotline but with soccer balls instead of lightsabers.
Beautiful Homage
Atletico Madrid paid tribute to some of their most senior members at the weekend with this touching procession.
Tissues at the ready.
A Season to Remember
The Bleacher Report are killing it with their long reads at the moment and this one by Graham Hunter on Ronaldo’s incredible 1996/97 season at FC Barcelona is another must-read, whether you’re long in the tooth enough to remember it or not.
A welcome reminder of El Fenómeno’s genius.
“Touch as Sweet as Candlelight”
Real Madrid’s incredible unbeaten run came to an end at 40 matches this weekend courtesy of this screamer from Sevilla’s Stevan Jovetic.
It was a good goal but we’re basically including this on the strength of Ray Hudson’s commentary… glorious.
That's all for this week - if you have any suggestions for next week's Trending, please direct them to @markbooth_nycfc on Twitter.
