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No joke: Fat kid is better than Ronaldo at free-kicks! (videos)

Who needs Ronaldo to take free kicks!

Newsroom October 4 10:22

This incredible guy from the Netherlands is called Bas van Velzen, and has turned to football through YouTube as a way of expressing himself after so many clubs wouldn’t give him a chance for being too overweight. He spent years mastering his technique & skills! Van Velzen became an internet star when a video emerged of the Dutchman curling the ball into an empty net at the end of 2014. When viewers of the video questioned if he would be able to score from distance against an actual goalkeeper, rather than a friend who looked like they were just placed in the goal, the YouTube ‘Ronaldo’ silenced his doubters by hitting a number of free-kicks into the top corner of the goal while real goalkeeper Mitchell Molenhuis is seen clutching at thin air.

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