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REPORTER: Who taught you to strike the ball like that?
LUIZ: Lampard teached me!!! I trained everyday, very hard...
... to help the team.
REPORTER: Ray Wilkins, our studio commentator, says it is similar to Didier Drogba...
LAMPARD: Yeah, I think Didier was one of the first to do it
...as well as Ronaldo
Well done to David. He works for lots of hours in training...
...to work on that technique.
He has mastered it... and now every time he gets a free kick at that distance...
.... I expect him to score.
Former Chelsea Training Assistant Manager, Ray Wilkins, reveals the secrets behind science
HOST: Explain it please, Ray. RAY WILKINS: Didier was always the one player
who liked to stay behind for a hour, after training had finished. He practised with a ball...
and Didier used to...
dig his heel into the ground, to make a hole in the turf. HOST: Like a divot?
WILKINS: Yes, a divot.
WILKINS: Mere average players like me, used to put the ball down and get a little 'tee'
but Didier would make this divot
so as he made contact with the ball with the side of his foot
the first thing the ball would hit is the front of the divot; so it will naturally start rotating.
Frank Lampard used to do it....
I had left the Chelsea Training team, by the time David Luiz arrived, but he must have learnt it...
and if you watch in slow motion
as he hits the ball he gets enough height, but he also get tremendous rotation...
This is not the best camera angle to see it...
when we see it from the next camera angle...
then we will see the rotation of the ball
It's a bit like table tennis...when you hit a 'flipper' (top-spinner)
the rotation of the ball just keeps going... this is the best camera angle
he gets the ball to travel upwards
but it just starts dipping straight away. Look at the rotation of the ball...
It's got top spin on it right away and that's one thing Didier has taught the Chelsea players
HOST: I think that is utterly amazing!!! WILKINS: But is not a fluke... because he would pratice it everyday.