damn no-one backing me on Koeman? that man was a dead-ball freak back in the day, he got the ball up and over the wall and into teh bottom corner with alarming regularity
Heh, Ronald was great but whenever a free kick was taken closer to the goal it was Stoichkov who took it ( in Barcelona), not Koeman.
And i think long time passed and you forgot that Koeman was more about power than technique. He did score few very nice free kicks (from technical point of view) but he relied on his power shot more.
I've seen lots of great free kick takers. Juninho, Beckham, Del Piero, Stoichkov, Hagi etc, but at the end my vote will have to go to Mihajlovic.
Back in the 90's a hated him like i never hated a player. I hated Lazio just as much in those days. And Mihajlovic, with every next free kick made me hate him more.
The guy was perfect free kick taker ( he's still holding the serie A record for free kick goals, right ?). Great mixture of power and technique.
But if it's a close call for the best free kick taker, then he's by faaaar the best corner kick taker i've seen. His CKs were so accurate and powerful that all it needed was a slight touch for the ball to change direction and then it was a sure goal. Many owngoals were scored after his corner kicks.
Scum of a man but pure brilliance if we talk about Fks and Cks.