Subri: The best goal in my career so far

fifa.noJSVideoMessage Mohd Faiz Subri caught up with FIFA.com moments after The Best FIFA Football Awards to give his thoughts about winning the FIFA Puskás Award 2016.
“I feel very excited to be among all the top footballers and to be in Zurich among them. Before the awards, I was feeling very nervous, and after getting it, everything settled down. I really work hard in training, so I think it comes from that hard work. So fortunately, I managed to score it. I scored goals like this, but that’s the best goal in my career so far. My desire is to play outside [of Malaysia], but it so happens that I’m still with Penang in the Malaysian League, so I will concentrate on helping them.”
FIFA Puskás Award 2016 winner, Mohd Faiz Subri

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WATCH: Mohd Faiz Subri"s FIFA Puskas Award winning goal

The Penang attacker lifted the trophy for the best goal of the last 12 months at the Best FIFA Football Awards in Zurich
Mohd Faiz Subri has been named the winner of the 2016 FIFA Puskas Award for the best goal of the year.
The 29-year-old attacker struck a long-range free-kick for Penang against ..

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The physics behind Subri"s swerve

fifa.noJSVideoMessage When Mohd Faiz Subri’s remarkable free-kick hit the back of the net at the Bandaraya Pulau Pinang Stadium in February, the roof was raised as Penang fans were sent into delirium. But there would likely have been a fair number of supporters inside the ground who bore witness, and then asked themselves and fellow fans: ‘how on earth did he do that?’
The incredible amount of swerve that Subri achieved with his dead ball, struck from the left-hand side of the pitch with his right foot, curving out and back in before dipping past the helpless goalkeeper Mohd Nasril Nourdin in the Pahang goal, seemed to defy physics.
A FIFA-backed study has been investigating the aerodynamics behind the swerve of footballs since October 2015, with the research triggered by at-times anomalous ball movement. Can the experts explain how Subri did it?
“Judging from the curve going to the right, the ball is spinning in a clockwise direction from the player’s point of view, so he probably ..

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