Famous Five - Backheeled belters

Last updated : 26 July 2011 By Team Talk

When it comes to selecting the best backheeled goal, there are no shortage of candidates.

Dead-ball backheelers Francesco Totti and Thewab Awana don't make the cut on this occasion, while Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Thierry Henry, John Carew and Grafite can all consider themselves extremely unlucky to miss out on the top five.

5 - Leopoldo Luque

Luque scored this beauty for River Plate against Huracan a year after winning the World Cup with Argentina in 1978.

4 - Denis Law

The King of the Stretford End brought the curtain down on his club career by nutmegging Alex Stepney late in the last-day derby to give City a 1-0 win over United.

Law, who feared he had condemned his former club to Division Two, walked straight off the pitch and was immediately substituted, but results elsewhere meant United would have been relegated regardless of Law's final goal.

3 - Charles-Edouard Coridon

Midfielder Coridon unleashed this horizontal backheel into the bottom corner to help Paris Saint-Germain defeat Champions League holders Porto in October 2004.

2 - Roberto Mancini/Gianfranco Zola

The Italian maestros share second place after both made the very best of poor corners by getting across the near post to brilliantly backheel flat deliveries into the roof of the net past bemused keepers.

Mancini's came during Lazio's Serie A win over Parma:

Zola's helped give Chelsea a place in the fourth round of the 2002 FA Cup by beating Norwich in a replay.

1 - Matty Burrows

Burrows bagged this brilliant injury-time winner from the edge of the box to give Glentoran a last-gasp 1-0 home victory over Portadown in October 2010.

So good was Burrows' backheel, that it was nominated for last season's FIFA Puskas Award - the prize for world football's most beautiful goal of the year. Ultimately, though, Burrows lost out to Hamit Altintop's screamer for Turkey.

Source: Team Talk

Source: Team Talk