8. Roberto Carlos - 85.2MPH
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ECoR__tJNQ This isn't the hardest shot on this list - obviously - but it is the most famous. No matter what your age, or when you got into football, chances are you've not only seen this goal, but tried (and spectacularly failed) to replicate it. Even Roberto Carlos tried countless times to do it again, without ever quite managing it. Coming in the Le Tournoi tournament of 1997, it's notable for a run-up Bob Willis would be proud of, and swerve that seems to defy physics, not to mention the fact that it was hit at rocket speed.
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