Brazilian? Check.
Left-back? Check.
Takes a wicked free-kick off a run-up that makes Michael Holding look like he's coming in off just three paces? Check.
Has thighs like giant redwood trees? Check.
Yes, it's that one, Roberto Carlos de Silva Rocha (Roberto Carlos to his mates); World Cup winner, two-time Copa América winner, three-time Champions League winner and named in Pelé's choice of 100 greatest living players* back in 2004.
Ever since he scored THAT free-kick in France in 1997, he's been one of the most recognisable players in the world as well as coming across as someone that all of us here at IBWM would like to go for a beer with.
On his 39th birthday, take five minutes to sit through his masterclass on how to 'do' free-kicks.
* then again, so was El Hadji Diouf
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