And finally… Damiao’s magic skill

Posted on 28th April 2011

This is a story from the FSF archive – the FSF and SD merged to become the FSA in 2019.

We’ve all seen video clips of players in training pulling off some amazing skills and thought "Ok, that’s impressive, but there’s no way you’d dare try that in a match". Well step forward Damiao of Internacional to prove us wrong. He pulled this ridiculous piece of trickery out of the bag to set up his side’s goal against Juventude this week. Bravo.

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And finally… Damiao’s magic skill

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