rabona
noun/rəˈbəʊnə/
/rəˈbəʊnə/
- an action in which a player kicks the ball with a foot that is crossed behind their other foot
- A cheeky rabona fooled the defender and floated the ball up to the far post.
Word OriginArgentinian Spanish, from hacerse la rabona or hacer la rabona ‘play truant’; the football term is popularly explained as deriving from a punning caption, el infante que se hizo la rabona ‘the child who plays truant’, as used in a 1948 edition of the Argentinian football magazine El Gráfico to accompany a cartoon depicting the player Ricardo Infante, who had performed this action in a recent match.Definitions on the go
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