ByGabriel Cabral Fontes is a person who dreams of becoming a football player at a young ... This exquisite combination of turbulence and Magnus effect is a free kick that Roberto Carlos showed ...

When a footballer unleashes a powerful shot, the action seems like magic: a clean strike, the ball rockets straight toward ...

You can call it football ... of the object). Magnus force. This is the force exerted on a moving and spinning object in a fluid or gas. Wikipedia’s page on the magnus effect is pretty ok.

In what many people regard as the best free kick ever ... after about 40 meters (yards) with a football. As the ball slows down, the "Magnus effect" becomes more and more pronounced, which ...

Football has seen many innovations ... Now look at the effect that the various types of spin can have on the flight of a free kick. This diagram shows sidespin and topspin free kicks using ...

Who can forget David Beckham's sensational 30-yard free kick against Greece that sent ... as a result of the 'Magnus force' (the effect of a spinning ball dragging the air around with it) related ...

Roberto Carlos' free kick goal against France in 1997's Tournoi ... While their research quickly confirmed the long-known Magnus effect, which gives a spinning ball a curved trajectory, their ...

Adidas says the new official football has improved touch and accuracy ... But "when the ball is spinning you get the Magnus effect that makes the ball curve", he explains. "It's spin-induced ...

A football spins along the wrong axis to trigger the Magnus effect, so any deviations in flightpath must come from a different source, such as the lift created as a ball angles through the air ...