Football is beautiful for many reasons, and one of those reasons are the very entertaining tricks and skills we see footballers pull off every now and then.
They are surely very interesting to watch.
Well, except when it's being done against your team.
But these days, many of these tricks are frowned upon when they are done during official matches.
Some have even been banned outright, and it is those ones that we want to talk about in this video today.
Here are 7 football tricks that have been banned in football forever.
1. The shirt catch If you ever played football on the streets then you are surely familiar with this trick where you trap a descending ball inside your shirt such that it looks like you're imitating a pregnant woman.
That trick, although funny on the streets, is pretty much illegal in pro football.
Basically, that shirt would be regarded as an extension of the player's arms and would be treated as if the player handled the ball.
Norwegian right back, Jan Gunnar Solli, once did this during a game and got booked for it.
